Synopsis In CULTIVATING DELIGHT, Diane Ackerman introduces readers to her garden, weeds and all, and muses on the connections between plants and people, and the effect of gardening on the human spirit.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2002-03-01 | | Series: | Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series | | Edition Description: | Large Print |
| Size | | Length: | 370 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 30.4 oz |
Industry Reviews "Like Pan, Ackerman is an unpredictable sensualist in the garden, and one with lots of facts. A more gladdening companion would be hard to imagine." Kirkus Reviews (08/01/2001)
"It's from [the] tiny, unsignaled apparitions of a quicksilver mind that one draws the most pleasure. Ackerman's attention to detail is...delicious....A grounding in science sharpens and brightens what might, in other hands, have become an excessively lyrical approach. Ackerman is possessed of an ability to look, adore and then dissect....Yet such knowledge is present to enhance, never to diminish, the sense of wonder that illuminates all of Ackerman's work." New York Times Book Review - Miranda Seymour (10/21/2001)
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