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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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“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)
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“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)
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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- EditoreHarperCollins
- Data di pubblicazione2001
- ISBN 10 0060199865
- ISBN 13 9780060199869
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine261
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in NEW condition. "In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, CULTIVATING DELIGHT, celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden. Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers. She chronicles instances of violence in nature but also intuits loneliness and desire in the clamor of male crickets in the spring. And there is wonderment and marvel as she happens upon a tiny frog asleep inside the petals of a tulip. Visitors to her garden range from botanical explorers of earlier centuries to the nature mystic John Muir to the brilliant British garden writer Gertrude Jekyll. The author's garden nourishes its creator, who imaginatively returns the favor and seizes privileged moments to leap from science and metaphor to meditation on the human condition. Written in sensuous, lyrical prose, CULTIVATING DELIGHT is a hymn to nature and to the pleasure we take in it." [jacket copy] "Diane Ackerman is like no other writer I have ever encountered. She writes a swiftly moving and sensuous prose that is extremely accessible but also reflects the encyclopedic knowledge and attention to minutiae of a laboratory scientist. She is a master of the startling, substantial, and fascinating digression."--Washington Post Book World. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square, tight binding, all in a beautiful jacket. Codice articolo RUB1595
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