9780375759451-037575945X-Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden (Modern Library Gardening)

Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden (Modern Library Gardening)

ISBN-13: 9780375759451
ISBN-10: 037575945X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Michael Pollan, Eleanor Perényi
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Modern Library
Format: Paperback 289 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780375759451
ISBN-10: 037575945X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Michael Pollan, Eleanor Perényi
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Modern Library
Format: Paperback 289 pages

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Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden (Modern Library Gardening) (ISBN-13: 9780375759451 and ISBN-10: 037575945X), written by authors Michael Pollan, Eleanor Perényi, was published by Modern Library in 2002. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden (Modern Library Gardening) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.35.

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“Unlike any other gardening book I know, with its Old World charm, its down-to-earth practicality, its whimsy and sophistication.”—Brooke Astor, The New York Times Book Review

A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from “Annuals” and “Artichokes” to “Weeds” and “Wildflowers.” An amateur gardener for over thirty years, Eleanor Perényi draws upon her wide-ranging knowledge of gardening lore to create a delightful, witty blend of how-to advice, informed opinion, historical insight, and philosophical musing. There are entries in praise of earthworms and in protest of rock gardens, a treatise on the sexual politics of tending plants, and a paean to the salubrious effect of gardening (see “Longevity” ). Twenty years after its initial publication, Green Thoughts remains as much a joy to read as ever.

This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Allen Lacy, former gardening columnist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and the author of numerous gardening books.

“You do not have to be a good gardener to fall in love with Green Thoughts. It reads with the intrepid assurance of a classic.”—Mary McCarthy, The New York Review of Books

“One of those dangerous reference works that you reach for at a moment of horticultural crisis or indecision only to find yourself an hour later browsing far beyond the page where you began.”—
The New Yorker
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