Cultivating Delight

"Ackerman has done it again ... one of the most buoyant and enjoyable garden reads ... uplifting, intelligent." -- Boston Globe In the mode of her bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman celebrates the sensory pleasures of her garden through the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers. Written in sensuous, lyrical prose, Cultivating Delight is a hymn to nature and to the pleasure we take in it.

Product details

• Authors: Diane Ackerman, Ackerman Diane
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2001
• EAN: 9780060199869
• ISBN: 978-0-06-019986-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Biology, life sciences, Gardening: flowers and ornamental plants, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Commercial horticulture, Botany and plant sciences, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Biology, GARDENING: Trees, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Horticulture, GARDENING: Flowers / General, GARDENING: Essays & Narratives, NATURE: Plants / Trees, NATURE: Plants / Flowers, NATURE: Seasons, LITERARY CRITICISM: Subjects & Themes / Nature