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Flowering Earthby Donald Culross Peattie
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Even a diehard urbanite would likely be seduced by this extraordinary chronicle of the plant kingdom... — Publishers Weekly ... much more than the fascinating story of plant life... It is also a book about the resilience of life itself, the mystery and power of the unseen energy appearing in the visible world in a marvelous variety of forms. — Audubon Naturalist News Here is Mr. Peattie at his superb best.... H]e makes the story of botany and its pursuit as fascinating to the reader as it is to him, and the reading of it a delight. — Hartford Times Peattie] belongs with Gilbert White, Thoreau, John Burroughs, W. H. Hudson, Richard Jeffries, and John Muir. — Mark van Doren First published in 1939, this beautifully imaginative book is about botany much in the same sense that Walden is about a pond. Part natural history, part biography, and part philosophical reflection, Flowering Earth is written in a warm, lyrical style that made poet-scientist Donald Culross Peattie one of America's best-known naturalist writers. Book News Annotation:Reprint (on alkaline paper) of the 1939 original on the history of
the plant kingdom.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:First published in 1939 and long out of print, this beautifully imaginative book is a classic of nature writing. Tracing the evolution of plant life from the appearance of the earliest micro-organisms to the rise of the modern floras, the book is part natural history, part biography, and part philosophical reflection. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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