Book ID: 47660
Marie-Victorin (Frere)
Flore Laurentienne.1935. 2800 dessins. 22 cartes. 916 p. 4to. Toile.
The "Flore Laurentienne" remains a masterpiece of the inter-war West (1919-1939). No similar publication at that time was so well removed from the dryness of nomenclatures and encyclopaedic descriptions. In Marie-Victorin's work, the security and credibility of the information is everywhere coupled with phylogenetic, phytogeographic, phytosociological and ecological comments, as well as historical and ethnographic information. These notes, far from being marginal, are an invitation to look beyond identification to the functions of each plant, to value the unique and irreplaceable role it plays in nature and which is in turn amplified and threatened by man.