{"product_id":"flowering-earth-9780253206626","title":"Flowering Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003eEven a diehard urbanite would likely be seduced by this extraordinary chronicle of the plant kingdom . . . --Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e . . . 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Peattie] belongs with Gilbert White, Thoreau, John Burroughs, W. H. Hudson, Richard Jeffries, and John Muir. --Mark van Doren\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Culross Peattie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.52w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253206626\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/20\/1991","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40422168494195,"sku":"9.78025E+12","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_14e6a00e-a2d0-45ab-9a8b-98d40238f208.jpg?v=1662471743","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/flowering-earth-9780253206626","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}