Edicions de Marimurtra presents the first volume of the Indrets de Marimurtra collection, a tool for getting to know the Marimurtra Botanical Garden better, because it relates and values the names of the spaces in the Garden with these characters without whom Marimurtra would not be the same.
The first of the books that has been published is Indrets de Marimurtra. La Costa de Sventenius and reviews the relationship of the Swedish botanist and gardener Eric R. Svensson with the Marimurtra Botanical Garden. The authors of the work are Josep Maria Camarasa, doctor in biology, historian of science and patron of the Carl Faust Foundation, and the biologist and professor of botany Carles Burguera, head of the Garden’s herbarium. The text is complemented with photographs of this place by Montserrat Verdaguer, activist and volunteer at Marimurtra.
The tour of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden is also a journey through its history and the personalities who gave it shape and content accompanied by its creator, Carl Faust. The places speak of gardeners, scientists, scholars, great figures of botany but, above all, of lovers of science and plants. With these works, the reader will be able to enter the world of Marimurtra through the people who shaped it. Or the world of botany through the streets and squares of the Botanical Garden.
This book – which describes the first space that visitors find when they enter the Garden – is the first in a planned series that will form part of the Indrets de Marimurtra collection, and has the support of the Girona Provincial Council. The next ones to be published by Edicions de Marimurtra will be about Pius Font i Quer, Albert Frič and Josep Cuatrecasas.
The books can be purchased at the Marimurtra Botanical Garden shop, specialized bookstores and online at www.edicionsmarimurtra.cat
