{"product_id":"xerophile-cactus-store-9781984859341","title":"Xerophile","description":"An updated edition of the cult classic, featuring stunning archival photographs of hundreds of the rarest and most spectacular plants on Earth, taken by a motley crew of cactus obsessives\n “A catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person.”—The New Yorker\nFrom the people behind Cactus Store comes 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.\nXerophile 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.","brand":"Potter\/Ten Speed\/Harmony\/Rodale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50716068413728,"sku":"9781984859341","price":28.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781984859341.jpg?v=1781533302","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/xerophile-cactus-store-9781984859341","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}