"The most comprehensive hardcover book on bamboo ever published"

"BAMBOO WORLD"

The growing & use of Non-invasive Sympodial Clumping Bamboos

Written & illustrated by Victor Cusack. Photographs by Deirdre Stewart

Victor Cusack’s long awaited second book "Bamboo World" (Kangaroo Press/Simon & Schuster - $89.00) was released in August 1999, with 230 information packed pages, 66 illustrations and more than 200 colour photos, many of exotic species photographed all around the world (taken by his wife Deirdre Stewart).
Make a shakuhachi flute or an Indonesian Xylophone, build beautiful furniture (complete with designs), or water toys; study advanced edible shoot or timber plantation technology , harvest and cure your own timber culms. It covers shoot preparation and cooking, recipes, making your own bamboo paper, building, architecture; it’s all there in extraordinary but simple detail, and beautifully illustrated! Printed as a quality ‘hard cover’ for world distribution, it is far more comprehensive than his earlier soft cover "Bamboo Rediscovered" (Earth Garden Books - $15.00 or $18.00 posted from Bamboo World), which has already sold more than 11,000 copies and is now selling well in the USA.

The Book Includes
  • Comparison of clumping (sympodial) and running (monopodial) bamboos.
  • Plant description including its parts.
  • Growth, flowering cycles & propagation.
  • Growing conditions and procedures.
  • Species selection advice for garden, landscaping, structural, furniture,
  • Species descriptions, common names, origin, specific uses and edibility.
  • Species lists of sympodial bamboos available in Australia,
  • Indigenous Australian bamboo species.
  • Harvesting and curing.
  • Edible shoots for home consumption, and which ones you can eat.
  • Plantations for edible shoots or timber, with species selection.
  • Plantation establishment costs and management techniques.
  • Building design principles & Building designs you can actually construct.
  • Building joints and techniques, both traditional and modern.
  • Furniture making including details of the tools and techniques.
  • Furniture designs that you can actually make.
  • Fence making and designs.
  • Mobile water toys and how to make them.
  • Screen making, Balinese and others.
  • Chemical treatment and equipment.
  • Pests and diseases.
  • General technique including splitting, cutting holes, etc.
  • Musical instrument making.
  • Edible shoot cooking, including comprehensive recipes.
  • Papermaking, and the gear you need.
Ordering Details

From within Australia, you can obtain the book from us for $99 including Express postage , or the book and our 32 page illustrated nursery catalogue for $102 (both prices include postage & GST). Send a cheque or money order to our Tuckombil address, or give us a call with your credit card details. (For our catalogue only, send 3 x $1.00 stamps).

From outside Australia, the book is available in the USA from Tradewinds Nursery & Bookshop (Phone /Fax: 541/247-0835, E-mail <bambugib@mail.harborside.com>), and from other bamboo nurseries and bookshops (ISBN 0-86417-934-0).

You can also purchase the book at Bamboo World for A$89, or order it through your local bookshop.