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Susanne Lucas is Executive Director of the World Bamboo Organization and a horticulturist, designer, landscape gardener and consultant based in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
"Bamboo is not large, but it would still be a great coffee table
book because it's so beautiful. Almost every page has exquisite
color photography and many of the pictures are full page. The
selection of illustrations is amazingly varied and well chosen,
from vintage photography to mouth-watering pictures of bamboo-shoot
meals. The book is unique in many ways. It integrates horticultural
and botanical writing with a broader account of the cultural and
social impact of bamboo. The appealing design of the book goes
beyond the cover and pictures the text is well written, providing
plenty for everyone to learn, including many uncommon aspects of
bamboo. There's a fascinating section on the history of books about
bamboo in English, beginning in London in 1868. . . . This
incredibly useful information is not presented in any other
book."-- "West Hawaii Today"
"Very wide-ranging, from its botany to its uses, history, and
cultural associations . . . What comes across is how widespread
bamboo is, and I am glad to see much discussion about the New World
bamboos. Particularly exciting is the discussion of the vast range
of contemporary technical uses; we may know about bamboo socks, but
there is much more, with many new applications linked to
sustainability . . . Bamboo is the latest in a series exploring
plant groups in a rounded way, concentrating on human interaction
with each plant. The production values are high and the books are
set to become a collector's series." -- "Gardens Illustrated"
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