Book ID: 43808
LEWINGTON, Anna
Plants for People. 1990. many colour photographs.232 p. 4to. Cloth.
The author traces the plant-derived materials that are found ineverything from car tyres to toothpaste, back, literally, to their rootsin areas as diverse as the Amazon rainforest and the lavender fields ofFrance, and looks too at the uses native people make of plants.Rainforest body paints are considered alongside cosmetics; the ancientuse of fig bark for cloth is contrasted with our modern use of woodpulpfor the latest fashion wear. - Good second hand copy.