Second Nature A Gardener's Education
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Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.2018
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Grove PressSeitenzahl
320 (Printausgabe)
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2391 KB
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Englisch
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9780802198617
"One of the distinguished gardening books of our time,"
from the #1
New York Times-bestselling author of
The Omnivore's Dilemma (
USA Today).
Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening
After Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm, he planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau's example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic did not, of course, work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Michael Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life.
The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book in the finest tradition of American nature writing. It inspires thoughts on the war of the roses; sex and class conflict in the garden; virtuous composting; the American lawn; seed catalogs, and the politics of planting a tree. A blend of meditation, autobiography, and social history,
Second Nature, from the renowned author of
The Botany of Desire,
In Defense of Food, and other bestsellers, is "as delicious a meditation on one man's relationship with the Earth as any you are likely to come upon" (
The New York Times Book Review).
"Usually when Americans have wanted to explore their relationship to nature they've gone to the wilderness, or the woods. Michael Pollan went to the garden instead... and he's returned with a quirky and pleasing book." -Annie Dillard
"A joy to read." -
Los Angeles Times
from the #1
New York Times-bestselling author of
The Omnivore's Dilemma (
USA Today).
Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 75 greatest books ever written about gardening
After Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm, he planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau's example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic did not, of course, work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Michael Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life.
The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book in the finest tradition of American nature writing. It inspires thoughts on the war of the roses; sex and class conflict in the garden; virtuous composting; the American lawn; seed catalogs, and the politics of planting a tree. A blend of meditation, autobiography, and social history,
Second Nature, from the renowned author of
The Botany of Desire,
In Defense of Food, and other bestsellers, is "as delicious a meditation on one man's relationship with the Earth as any you are likely to come upon" (
The New York Times Book Review).
"Usually when Americans have wanted to explore their relationship to nature they've gone to the wilderness, or the woods. Michael Pollan went to the garden instead... and he's returned with a quirky and pleasing book." -Annie Dillard
"A joy to read." -
Los Angeles Times
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