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The book by Matjaž Mastnak, one of our most prominent experts in the field of plants, entitled A Colorful Performance: Autumn-Winter and Holiday Season, is the second in the collection "On Flowers and Lively", in which his handbook on spring flowers has already been published. Blooming spring. Once again, the work is marked by the author's original style, which is based on connecting the plant world with human culture. This interweaving is Colorful performances It shows the changing nature over a period of time, from autumnal decline, through winter sleep, to the fleeting promise of spring's awakening of life.
It is work, as those who read in the Sunday edition of the newspaper can imagine. Work read Mastnak's columns – some of which are collected, supplemented and unified in this book – written in an extremely popular and communicative way, in short, attractive. It is professionally grounded, but at the same time not dry. It is based on the strictly scientific science of natural botany, while at the same time redirecting the focus of the book to many other areas in a distinctly popular and narrative way. In addition to precise explanations of events in nature, it also offers readers excursions into fiction, more specifically poetry, the world of mythological stories and folk traditions, and also describes various customs, habits, customs, celebrations and other former and contemporary ethnological-anthropological phenomena. The text, which openly flirts with essayism, is nevertheless, or precisely because of this, extremely important, as it unobtrusively and authentically brings closer to lay readers the laws and mysteries of the world that surrounds us, and consequently also comprehensibly for everyone. He is helped by beautiful, mostly original photographs of nature, which are also supplemented by other visual material.
The book is extremely versatile. As an essay-meditative work, it is intended for repeated reading, as a manual-based text it is useful for those looking for information on the properties and maintenance of autumn-winter vegetation, and as teaching material it is also welcome in pedagogical work, as it is a richly informative, thematically diverse and interdisciplinary explanation of nature, a shining example for teachers when presenting teaching material. It is also very suitable as a gift, more lasting than a flower arrangement.
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