Re: Gordon Cheers 2nd book

John Taylor [The Banshee] (rphjt@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
Tue, 5 Jan 93 20:24:29 +0000

>Gordon Cheers' new book, Guide to CP of the World, is going to hit the
>bookstands on January 22nd. I just talked to the
>publisher (Harper Collins, in Sydney Australia) at 1-800-331-3761, and
>they said it will retail for $45 USA, and its ISBN # is 02-07-161-860.
>If you can't get it through your local bookstore you can call the 1-800
>number or your country's Harper Collins rep.
>
>Don Schnell, whose opinion I respect in these matters, said it is the
>best recent book on CP culture, far surpassing LeCoufle. Comparable to
>Slack's 2nd book, which saw very limited release.
>
>B

Well, I just happemn to have a copy here... It is a very nice book (pity it's
only in hardback so far = $$$) The ISBN # is actually 0-207-16186-0 and it
is an Angus and Robertson book (an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) to be
exact. It is similar in content to Slack's 2nd book, but is set out very
differently (I think it's excellent). It starts off with an History, Fact and
Folklore section - including a photo of the famous Triffid from the BBC TV
miniseries of John Wyndham's "Day of the Tiffids". There is also a good
section on trapping mechanisms of various genera (again, more good photos
including cut-away traps of pitcher types). Then follows cultivation and
propagation sections - the latter including *tissue culture* and pesticides.
The CP descriptions follow with each genera has a "chapter" starting with a
full-page "intro" giving a distribution map, pronounciation, origin of the
genera name and discovery details etc. It then goes on to give details of
(some) species with descriptions, color photos, and other info. One of the
unique features of this book is the field trips section, in which he describes
searching for CPs in 6 different locations: W.A. and Victoria in Australia,
Arthur's Pass in New Zealand, Mt Kinabalu (Borneo), Mt Roraima (Venezuela)
and North America. Then there is a Monthly Calendar covering the CP genera
which gives details of watering, etc (great!), and also a World CP List which
gives the species, subspecies/forms, hybrids, synonyms, "discoverer" and
plant origins (and more?)

That should do it - I recommend adding this book to your CP library (insert
disclaimers here...)

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P.S. If I have time after reassembling the rear half of my Moke, I may even
get around to reading this book!