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Flowers of Trinidad & Tobago (Julian Kenny)

Flowers of Trinidad & TobagoFlowers of Trinidad and Tobago explores the unusually diverse flora of this unique Caribbean country through over 100 stunning colour photographs from the author’s personal collection. This high-quality hardback publication is a celebration of form, colour and fragance of the tropical flowers of Trinidad & Tobago. They are flowers that are rare, familiar, unique or simply beautiful, with clear descriptions and author observations. Nine accompanying chapters examine the various habitats in which different species thrive, and describe how beauty and biology work to the same purpose. Read a review (Trinidad Newsday, November 2006) of Flowers.

 

About Flowers

  • Order nowAuthor: Julian Kenny
  • Credits: Foreword by Professor E. Julian Duncan, Emeritus Professor of Plant Science, University of the West Indies, and edited by Nicholas Laughlin
  • Publisher: Prospect Press (2006)
  • Genre: Natural History
  • Format: Hardback (Coffee Table)
  • Pages: 127
  • ISBN: 976-95057-8-1
  • Price: TT$350.00
  • $1 of all sales goes to the Guardian Wildlife Fund.

 

About Julian Kenny

Author Julian Kenny was a professional zoologist and one of the Caribbean’s best known natural scientists. He was a professor of zoology at the Trinidad campus of the University of the West Indies, and an independent senator in the parliament of Trinidad and Tobago. His nature photography constitutes one of the most important collections in the Caribbean. He has written extensively about the natural history of Trinidad and Tobago, for both academic and popular audiences. His books include Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean; Views from the Bridge (on freshwater fish); Views from the Ridge (exploration in natural history); Orchids of Trinidad and Tobago; and A Naturalist’s Notes: the Biological Diversity of Trinidad & Tobago. He passed away in August, 2011.