The Herbal Lexicon: In 10 Languages - Paperback

by Kate Koutrouboussis (Author)

This book's aim is to help the herbal traveller. From students to professional biologists in the field, herbal retailers and wholesalers, people living away from their own country and medical herbalists. The author mainly focuses on herbs which grow in Europe and the Mediterranean but has included some from the rest of the world which are commonly used in Europe.The book is very simple to use. Part One consists of the Latin names, numbered and in alphabetical order, and under each heading you will find the plant's name in several languages. Part Two comprises the different languages in index form and beside each entry the number for the Latin names which are in part one.It includes English, French, German, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, and Turkish (English Index, Index Francais, Deutscher Index, Svenska Index, Indice Espanol, Indice Italiano, Greek Index, Magyar Index, Polski Indeks, Turkce Endeksi).

Author Biography

Kate Koutrouboussis was born and brought up in London by an Italian father and a Hungarian mother. She has acquired a number of additional languages through extensive travel and has chosen to combine her interests of language and herbal medicine in this book. She lives in Greece.