A review by sjgochenour
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination by Richard Mabey

3.0

I’m not sure what I think of this one. When Mabey is on historic and scientific ground, he covers a lot of fascinating territory — salt-tolerant samphire, ancient yews, bristlecone pines and baobabs, endemic Cretan tulips, and orchid collecting. But when he slips into a philosophical or reminiscent mode, he is . . . boring? And not particularly insightful.