{"product_id":"ernesto-schick-railway-flora","title":"Ernesto Schick - Railway Flora","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRailway Flora or nature’s revenge on man. Botanical observations on the area around the international marshalling yard of Chiasso, 1969–1978 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a small botanical handbook – midway between a travel diary and a science manual – that tells of the astonishing proliferation of spontaneous plants in the vicinity of Chiasso’s international station, where the completion of a new, large complex of train tracks in the ’50s and ’60s eradicated the local vegetation. First published in 1980, this book became a small cult object that inspired the poet Fabio Pusterla to write a poem for Schick’s ‘pilot plants,’ featured in this edition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRailway Flora\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bears witness to the painstaking research of an all but common man and his scrutiny of the complex relationship between human beings and their environment. A tale of biodiversity along the tracks of a frontier station.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bruno","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54826382754125,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0164\/7630\/7520\/files\/260924_Shopify4.jpg?v=1790262864","url":"https:\/\/shop.b-r-u-n-o.it\/products\/ernesto-schick-railway-flora","provider":"bruno","version":"1.0","type":"link"}