Book Details
280
May 23, 2023
Width: 6.50 in
Height: 8.00 in
“Drawing Botany Home is a beautiful account of a life’s accumulations, its narratives of paths and plants and family relationships. Lyn Baldwin pays careful attention to place and what it holds, in terms of both biota and memory, and from these sources she guides the reader through richly textured landscapes. Her writing is lyrical, her love of the intimate durability of the natural world infectious, and the pages from her field journals reproduced throughout the book reveal a perceptive and generous eye.” —Theresa Kishkan, author of Blue Portugal and Other Essays, The Weight of the Heart, Euclid’s Orchard, Winter Wren and numerous others
“In poetic prose and exquisite paintings, Drawing Botany Home is a daringly original integration of botany and memoir. It is a story of Place: the place where rooted plants grow and the place we call home, altered by the often chaotic path of our lives, the brutal history of human conquest and the Earth-altering trajectory of the Anthropocene.” —Jon Turk, author of The Raven’s Gift, Crocodiles and Ice, In the Wake of the Jomon and Tracking Lions, Myth, and Wilderness in Samburu
“Baldwin weaves botany into a very personal, and often traumatic, memoir. Her field notes and illustrations join these very disparate threads into a compelling read. This is grounded writing, in the broadest sense of the term.” —Don Gayton, author of The Sky and the Patio, Man Facing West, The Wheatgrass Mechanism, Okanagan Odyssey and Landscapes of the Interior among other titles