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02961aam a2200373 i 4500 001 4EFE56A4AAD111EE853AF3262BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240104011316 008 230729s2023 xna b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2023445242 020 $a 1742237681 020 $a 9781742237688 035 $a (OCoLC)1371138209 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d WUY $d NLNAT $d OCLCF $d KZS $d HUL $d YDX $d CDX $d VXG $d OCLCO $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a u-at-ne 050 00 $a QK75 G53 2023 100 1 $a Gibson, Prudence, $e author. 245 14 $a The plant thieves : $b secrets of the herbarium / $c Prudence Gibson. 264 1 $a Sydney, Australia : $b NewSouth Publishing, $c 2023. 300 $a xvii, 254 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a First encounters -- Psychoactive plants and their keepers -- Rewilding, conservation, and creative revaluing. 520 $a In The Plant Thieves, Prudence Gibson explores the secrets of the National Herbarium of New South Wales and unearths remarkable stories of plant-naming wars, rediscovered lost species, First Nations agriculture, illegal drug labs and psychoactive plant knowledge. -- Cover [Page 4] 520 $a The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales - its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens. Who gets to collect plants, name them, propagate them, extract their chemicals, sell them and use them? Whose knowledge is it? And what can the people that work with plants, just outside the law, teach us about plant care? In The Plant Thieves, Prudence Gibson explores the secrets of the National Herbarium of New South Wales and unearths remarkable stories of plant naming wars, rediscovered lost species, First Nations agriculture, illegal drug labs and psychoactive plant knowledge. Gibson reveals the tale of the anti-inflammatory plant that saved a herbarium manager when she was collecting in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, stories about the secret wollemi pine plantation (from one of its botanical guardians) and the truth about a beach daisy that has changed so much in 100 years that it needs to be completely reclassified. She also follows the story of the black bean Songline, a recent collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, to find the route of this important agriculture plant. The Plant Thieves is both a lament for lost and disappearing species and a celebration of being human, of wanting to collect things and of learning more about plant life and ourselves. 610 20 $a National Herbarium of New South Wales $x History. 650 0 $a Herbaria $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Herbaria $x History. 650 0 $a Plant collecting $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Botany $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042354.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4EFE56A4AAD111EE853AF3262BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search