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Dispersals : on plants, borders, and belonging / Jessica J. Lee.
"In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds: from species considered invasive, like giant hogweed; to those vilified but intimate, like soy; and those like kelp, on which our futures depend. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being 'out of place'--weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735245549 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: ix, 270 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Hamish Hamilton, 2024.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Belonging (Social psychology) Nature. Plants. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Essays. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Penguin Putnam
INSTANT TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
The prize-winning and bestselling author of Two Trees Make a Forest turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future
A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?
The themes in these fourteen essays become invigorating and intimate in Leeâs hands, centering on the lives of plants like seaweed, tangelos, and soy, and their entanglement with our human worlds. Lee explores the rich backstory of cherry trees in Berlin; a tea plant that grows in the Himalayan foothills just southwest of China; the world of algae and wakame, and the journeys theyâve made to reach us.
Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being âout of placeââweeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Lee looks at these plant species in their own context, even when we find them outside of it.
Dispersals draws a gorgeous, sprawling map of the diaspora of flora. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.
