Fascinated and inspired by sights on simple nature walks through the countryside, surgeon by profession and author Bertel Bager invites the reader-viewer to explore the miraculously detailed design work within the botanical world. Details which normally escape our attention are here put on full display for investigation and meditation – the minutiae of mosses, seedpods, and lichens – emphasizing not only their beauty but the evolutionary intentionality of their functions.

Hard cover with black and white photographs throughout.

Edition: 1966.

Condition: Excellent vintage, with a lovely patina.

Measures ~8.5"x11". 176 pages.