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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 581.38
EAN num: 9780253206626
ISBN number: 0253206626
Label: Indiana University Press
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 276
Printing Date: October 01, 1991
Publishing house: Indiana University Press
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Studio: Indiana University Press
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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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Captivating, poetic, descriptions of the fundamental machinery of the purple world. Here is a chance to learn to see anew and to reverence this natural world which we have bruised so nearly to death.
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Another classic from the great writer/naturalist.This is Peattie's non-technical history of flowering plants,beautifuly written and highly educational,but you don't need to have a degree in botany to understand it.Highly recomended for all nature lovers.
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Every so often there is a book that is worth reading simply for the pleasure of the words in it, separate from whatever the author is trying to say or tell the reader. This is such a book. The effect is akin to being immersed in the depths of a symphony of words.
Otherwise Peattie does an excellent job of explaining the evolution and development of the earths flowering plants. His writing is easily understood and opens botany to the more or less uninformed reader.
Read this book for pleasure or for information. You will be pleased you sampled it. This is my second copy. I lent the very first out and lost a friend to the book
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In this distinguished history of the plant kingdom, Donald Culross Peattie, botanist and nature writer extraordinaire, imaginatively demonstrates that the fates of all living things are bound together. This is nature writing at its best. In the intervening years since this book was written, scientists have made many new discoveries, but few nature writers have surpassed the stylistic beauty and illuminative insight displayed by the author in Flowering Earth. I recommend it to anyone interested in nature. The thoughts expressed are timeless
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