Xerophile. Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed. Revised edition. 2021. many col. photogr. and some b/w photogr. 351 p. gr8vo. Paper bd,

Finally back in print in a new revised edition is the book Xerophile, a photographic collection of these improbable desert wonders in the wild. Drawing on the archives of twenty-five cactus obsessives - from PhD botanist to banker, art teacher to cancer researcher - this revised edition spans eighty years and features new and expanded descriptive notes for all 350+ photos.

Xerophile brings together eighty years’ worth of these explorers’ remarkable images from some of the world’s most remote habitats: a peculiar two-leaved plant that lives for millennia in the deserts of Namibia; succulents whose poisonous sap is used by hunters to fell large game in Angola; and cactus that live on snow-covered mountains in Bolivia, sink below ground level to survive droughts in Mexico, are pollinated by bats in Brazil, and grow in pure lava fields of the Galápagos Islands.