{"product_id":"flowering-earth-paperback","title":"Flowering Earth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Culross Peattie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Even 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\u003e\"Here 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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.01 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42135036723335,"sku":"9780253206626","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/3156d51fb0ec774bf1106c0bfe841035.webp?v=1732646499","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/flowering-earth-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}