{"product_id":"xerophile","title":"Xerophile","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A catalogue of wonders that most of us will never get to see in person.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the people behind Cactus Store comes \u003ci\u003eXerophile\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eXerophile\u003c\/i\u003e 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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314420719998,"sku":"NW9781984859341","price":22.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781984859341.jpg?v=1778713414","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/xerophile","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}