Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden - Rilegato

Ackerman, Diane

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ISBN 10: 0060199865 ISBN 13: 9780060199869

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2001

Riassunto

The best-selling author of A Natural History of the Senses takes readers deep into her own garden, mixing science with lyrical, inspired writing to offer a sensory celebration of her encounter with the natural world.

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Recensione

“Diane Ackerman takes us down the garden path with a renewed sense of awe ...[and] enlightened eyes.” (Los Angeles Times)

“Ackerman’s rich prose is a bridge to a world of discovery.” (Nature)

“An enchanting intellectual sensualist ... Ackerman buzzes productively from idea to revelation to insight ... [with] breezy philosophical lyricism.” (Publishers Weekly (* Starred Review *))

"Lyrical, knowledgeable and imaginative." (Booklist)

“A fascinating tour of plant mythology and fact ...[Ackerman] plays both sleuth and poet.” (People)

L'autore

Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of many highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, including A Natural History of the Senses -- a book beloved by readers all over the worldand the volumes Deep Play, A Slender Thread, The Rarest of the Rare, A Natural History of Love, The Moon by Whale Light, and a memoir on flying, On Extended Wings.

Her poetry has been collected into six volumes, among them Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems and, most recently, Praise My Destroyer.

Ms. Ackerman has received many prizes and awards, including the John Burroughs Nature Award and the Lavan Poetry Prize. A Visiting Professor at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, she was the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor at the University of Richmond. Ms. Ackerman also has the unusual distinction of having had a molecule named after her -- dianeackerone. She lives in upstate New York.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060199865
• ISBN 13: 9780060199869
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 261