Seeds - One Man s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired

Richard Horan''s Seeds, the chronicle of one man''s quest to understand the influence and impact of trees in American life and literature-and his mission to collect seeds from the homes of Kerouac, Welty, Wharton, Kesey and twenty other authors, to preserve the literary legacy of American forests for generations to come. From the wooded road made of golden hemlock running past L. Frank Baum''s childhood home to the lonely stump of Scout''s oak in Harper Lee''s Alabama, author Richard Horan gathers tree seeds-and stories-from the homes of America''s most treasured authors. At once a heartfelt paean to literature and a wise, funny, and uplifting account of one man''s reconnection with nature, Seeds celebrates Horan''s triumphs and calamities on his quest to link trees with great writers-a delightfully original meditation on the nature of inspiration and a one-of-a-kind adventure into literature.

About the author

Richard Horan is a novelist, English teacher, and book reviewer for several national publications. His novel Goose Music was a finalist for the Great Lakes Fiction Award and won the ForeWord Book of the Year Bronze Medal. He is also the author of Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton. He lives in Oswego, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Horan
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2011
• EAN: 9780061861680
• ISBN: 978-0-06-186168-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: LITERATURE, GARDENING: Trees, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, COMPOSITION & WRITING: BIG IDEAS & SMART NONFICTION, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Speeches, GARDENING: Essays & Narratives, GARDENING: Ornamental Plants, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs, NATURE: Fungi & Mushrooms