Book ID: 32040
MEYEN, F.J.F.
Outlines of the Geography of Plants. With particular en- quiries concerning the native country, the culture, and the uses of the principal cultivated plants of which the prosperity of nations is based. Translated by Margaret Johnston. 1846. (Reprint 1986). X,422 p. gr8vo. Cloth.
Any treatment of the Geography of Plants involves a very comprehensivestudy of many factors, away from the botanical vitalities. Among otherthings, the ecological factor assumes great significance, something onwhich much stress is naturally being laid these days in all parts ofthe world. But what the present authoritative book has chosen for itscoverage that is hard to come by in similar scholarly accounts, are theoverall situation of the Indian ethos and even the cultural backdropthat, in traditional societies like ours, gives people's attitudes tothe environ, and more importantly, to plants.