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Flowering Earth
Contributor(s): Peattie, Donald Culross (Author)

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 ISBN: 0253206626     ISBN-13: 9780253206626
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE: $26.25  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1991
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences - Botany
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Dewey: 581.38
LCCN: 90025484
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.52" W x 8.01" L (0.74 lbs) 276 pages
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/20/1991
 
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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.
 
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