Dispersals

On Plants, Borders and Belonging

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Beschreibung

<p><b>HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASLE-UKI BOOK PRIZE 2025<br>LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025</b></p><p><b>'An invigorating cross-pollination of memoir and natural history, both beautifully phrased and delicately structured - this book deserves your time and attention' Cal Flyn, author of<i> Islands of Abandonment</i></b></p><p>Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.</p><p>In <i>Dispersals</i>, she examines the echoes and counterpoints in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them. Combining memoir, history and scientific research, Lee questions how both plants and people come to belong - or not - and reveals how all our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.</p><p><b>'Contemplative, elegant' <i>New Statesman</i></b></p><p><b>'At once expansive and intimate, and most of all, gorgeously written. This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life' Nina Mingya Powles, author of <i>Small Bodies of Water</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241996881

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 126 x 21 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)