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Field Study

Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium

ISBN-13: 9781773057767

Author(s): Helen Humphreys

Subjects: WNW

Publisher: Ecw Press

Publisher Imprint: Ecw Press Digital

Publication Date: 30-09-2021

Format: Ebook

Availability: In stock

£9.99
Field Study

About the book

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Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left no matter how diminished

Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people who amassed collections of plant specimens in the 19th and 20th centuries. From Emily Dickinson s and Henry David Thoreau s collections to the amateur naturalists whose names are forgotten but whose collections still grace our world, herbariums are the records of the often-humble plants that are still with us and those that are lost. Over the course of a year, Humphreys considers life and loss and the importance of finding solace in nature.

Illustrated throughout with images of herbarium specimens, Humphreys s own botanical drawings, and archival photographs, this will be the perfect gift for Humphreys s many fans, nature enthusiasts, and for all who loved Birds Art Life.

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