Survival Plants

In this intoxicating concoction of history, travelogue, and memoir, one of the perfume industry’s leading scouts of natural ingredients tells the story of the precious ingredients needed to make our favorite fragrances.

Explorer, naturalist and president of Britain's Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks was a larger-than-life character best known for his promotion of science. In 1768 Banks joined Captain James Cook's expedition to the South Pacific. The 30,000 specimens he brought back generated enormous interest, as did the sometimes racy written account of the journey, which chronicled his frequent amorous exploits.

Learn how to grow clean and delicious food even when you’re tight on space. Are you having a hard time finding high-quality food that is actually healthy? Are you fed up with paying boatloads of money for organic produce and want a more affordable option? Do you want to become self-sufficient in feeding yourself and learn how to grow your favorite veggies regardless of your previous experience with gardening or your available space? If any or all of the above stands true for your situation, then it’s your big day; you’ve found the key to healthier and more sustainable living!

With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It’s baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers—suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea faster than a swimmer can follow.