Harper Paperbacks, March 1989. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial bestseller. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world." --The New York Times "A wry, informed pastoral." --The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the.....
Frances Lincoln Limited, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 168 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Seeing gardening as a serious and even outrageous art form has placed Anne Wareham well outside of what usually passes for discussion of gardens. Impatient with received ideas, eager.....
Duke University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 238 pages. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Elizabeth Lawrence occupies a secure place in the pantheon of twentieth-century gardening writers that includes Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West of Great Britain and Katherine S. White of the United States. Her books.....
Herbert Jenkins, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 316 pages. Gardening on the highlands of Kenya. First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket, with a large chip at the top of the spine, affecting most of the title.
Algonquin, March 2008. Trade Paperback. A behind-the-scenes look at the global flower trade. This book started right here in Humboldt at Sun Valley Floral Farms. Other local highlights include lily breeder Leslie Woodriff and Heuer’s Florist. A fascinating journey around the world and behind the scenes in the business of.....
Oxford University Press, October 2003. Hardcover. In this beautifully illustrated book, Maureen Carroll examines the most recent evidence of the existence of ancient gardens, the horticultural practices used to plant and maintain them, and the many forms and functions they assumed. Surveying the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Italy, and.....
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2007. Trade Paperback. Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that work of the imagination, the explorations journey through.....
Skyhorse, February 2014. Hardcover. When The Biggle Garden Book was first published in 1908, most people were in the habit of raising their own food and flowers. Jacob Biggle felt that a gardener's success had to do with willpower and passion rather than acreage. "The man, woman or youngster who.....
Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1999. Hardcover. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves.....
David R Godine, February 2002. Trade Paperback. Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue -- the thinking gardener's guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. "It is only when we are aware of the earth and.....
Ballantine Books, January 2000. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean's wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower--the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii--a.....