About the Author

H. Walter Lack is a professor at the Free University of Berlin and former director of the Botanical Gardens and Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. A leading expert in the history of botany, his research focuses on the global transfer of useful and ornamental plants from a cultural historical perspective. He is the author of TASCHEN’s Garden of Eden, The Book of Palms and Redouté. The Book of Flowers.

Reviews

Art, beauty, and knowledge come together in A Garden Eden. A comprehensive coffee table book on botany with beautiful images. Love of aesthetics is almost the only thing that counts.
*Cosmopolitan*

A selection of the best works in botanical illustration.
*ELLE*

This trilingual book makes a truly thoughtful gift.
*gardenersworld.com*

A Marvellian world of botanical delights unfurls. Art blends with science in plates that range from the Byzantine to the Baroque.
*The Times*