Dispersals

On Plants, Borders and Belonging

von

Lee, Jessica J.

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288 Seiten

Englisch

Penguin Books Ltderschienen am25.04.2024

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 An invigorating cross-pollination of memoir and natural history, both beautifully phrased and delicately structured-this book deserves your time and attention´ Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worldsA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean. A tree is planted on a shifting border. A shrub is uprooted from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them.Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being "out of place"- whether weeds, samples collected through imperial science, or crops introduced and transformed by our hand.Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in precise and poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong - or not - as they border cross, and reveals how all our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.'At once expansive and intimate, and most of all, gorgeously written. This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life´ Nina Mingya Powles, author of Small Bodies of Watermehr

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KlappentextSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 An invigorating cross-pollination of memoir and natural history, both beautifully phrased and delicately structured-this book deserves your time and attention´ Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worldsA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean. A tree is planted on a shifting border. A shrub is uprooted from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them.Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being "out of place"- whether weeds, samples collected through imperial science, or crops introduced and transformed by our hand.Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in precise and poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong - or not - as they border cross, and reveals how all our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.'At once expansive and intimate, and most of all, gorgeously written. This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life´ Nina Mingya Powles, author of Small Bodies of Water

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-241-59712-5

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

Verlag

Penguin Books Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr2024

Erscheinungsdatum25.04.2024

Seiten288 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 143 mm, Höhe 216 mm, Dicke 30 mm

Gewicht402 g