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Description of  Xerophile, Revised Edition: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed

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 A catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person.The New Yorker From the people behind Cactus Store comes , a photographic collection of these improbable desert wonders in the wild. Drawing on the archives of twenty-five cactus obsessivesfrom PhD botanist to banker, art teacher to cancer researcherthis revised edition spans eighty years and features new and expanded descriptive notes for all 350+ photos. brings together eighty years worth of these explorers remarkable images from some of the worlds 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 Galapagos Islands. Read more