Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed

*THIS BOOK QUALIFIES FOR FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING* Softcover, 352 pages 7.25 × 10 in. 18.415 × 25.4 cm.  Xerophile: Cactus Photographs from Expeditions of the Obsessed is the first book of its kind. A selection of over 500 photographs of arguably the rarest and most spectacular plants on earth, photographed in their natural habitats over the past 80 years by a global cadre of obsessed cactus aficionados made up of both the amateur and the professional—from Ph.D. botanist to banker, art teacher to cancer researcher. Fueled by whispers of ancient plants on forgotten hilltops in Brazil, legends of fields of living fossils deep in the arid deserts of Chile, these explorers’ relentless drive to find and document succulent plants in some of the most remote landscapes on earth has created an extraordinary collective body of photographic work, one which has rarely, if ever, been seen by the general public. Compiled by the proprietors of the Cactus Store in Los Angeles—Xerophile is not a field g