California by James Rawls

California by James Rawls

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California by James Rawls

The book is the first of its kind to cover comprehensive treasure of information on a wide variety of forest products i.e. medicinal plants, essential oils, spices, condiments and savoury plants, edible oil plants, gums, resins and oleoresins, fatty oils, tanning materials, natural organic colouring materials, katha and cutch, oxalic acid, fibres and flosses, beverages and narcotics, fodder and forage plants, saponins, fish poisons, insecticides and raticides, green manure, beads, rubber plants, plants useful for paper, basket and wicker work including canes, beedi leaves, misc. plants and animal products. Besides dealing with general importance, occurrence, extraction, processing, storage and uses of the products, group-wise, the book gives a list in alphabetical order of the more important product yielding plants with their botanical, English and local names, their rough distribution in the country, their agro-silvicultural practices, exploitation, processing and utilisation of more important species under each group. The book is profoundly illustrated with coloured images. This book is useful to: - Students of economic botany in the University colleges and serving foresters - Growers, processing and marketing agencies, manufacturers - Very useful, particularly in developing countries where there is rich flora and fauna awaiting proper exploitation, production, harvesting and utilisation

Rawls, James: - Rawls received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as an editor of California History, the journal of the California Historical Society. He has published many articles and reviews that have appeared in Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Reviews, and American Indian Quarterly.
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ISBN 13 9780073406961
ISBN 10 0073406961
Titel California
Autor James Rawls
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2011-02-09
Seitenanzahl 576
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