Carlos Magdalena Livres

Carlos Magdalena is a man on a mission: to save the world’s most endangered plants. In The Plant Messiah, Magdalena takes readers from the forests of Peru to deep within the Australian outback in search of the rare and the vulnerable. Back in the lab—at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, home of the largest botanical collection in the world—we watch as he develops groundbreaking, left-field techniques for rescuing species from extinction, encouraging them to propagate and thrive once again. Passionate and absorbing, The Plant Messiah is a tribute to the diversity of life on our planet, and to the importance of preserving it.

This full-throttle memoir is a window on the exploits that underpin the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . . . reveals the rare mix of zeal and patience needed to hunt vanishing plants Nature

Carlos Magdalena of Kew Gardens is not your average botanical horticulturist. He's a man on a mission to save the world's most endangered plants from destruction and thieves hunting for wealthy collectors. He is a plant messiah. From the planet's tiniest waterlily - the Nymphaea thermarum - to Huarango trees with roots over 50 metres long, Carlos has a miraculous ability to bring breathtakingly beautiful plants back from the brink of extinction. He has travelled to the most remote and dangerous parts of the world - from the mountains of Peru to isolated Indian Ocean islands to the deepest Australian outback - in search of the rarest exotic species. Then, back in the Tropical Nursery at Kew, he uses pioneering, left-field techniques to help them grow. Now he's here to spread the gospel. The Plant Messiah is the inspirational story of a man who has devoted - and risked - his life to save incredible species, all in the name of making this Earth a greener and happier place. Amen to that.

Carlos Magdalena hat eine Mission, er will gefährdete Pflanzen vor dem Aussterben bewahren: von der kleinsten Seerose der Welt bis zu Bäumen mit über fünfzig Meter langen Wurzeln. Er reist zu den entlegensten Orten der Erde - von der Bergwelt Perus über die abgelegenen Inseln des Indischen Ozeans bis in die Tiefen des australischen Outbacks -, auf der Suche nach seltenen exotischen Arten. An seinem Arbeitsplatz in Kew Gardens widmet er sich der Erforschung dieser Pflanzen, entwickelt wegweisende neue Techniken, sie zu vermehren, und versucht alles, um sie in ihrem Wachstum zu stärken und ihren Bestand zu sichern. Sein Buch ist ein sympathisches und mitreißendes Zeugnis wahrer Leidenschaft, beseelt vom Wunsch nach einer besseren, grüneren Welt.