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Herbs and the Earth
by Henry Beston
Product Group: Book
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher (1995-09)
ISBN: 0879238275
EAN: 9780879238278
Dewey Decimal #: 581.63
Hardcover: 144 pages
SKU: 20065
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Hardback. Book: As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Book pages clean and crisp with no markings.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
From one of America's most sensitive and fervent nature writers comes this classic of herbal lore and legend, new in paperback. This is not strictly a gardening book (although there is plenty for the gardener to learn in it), but a singular example of a man thinking about what he grows not only how it grows, but its roots in religion, the Bible, history and medicine. The book was written at Chimney Farm, the Maine homestead immortalized in Northern Farm to which he repaired in 1931 with his wife Elizabeth Coatsworth, and where he died in 1968.
Beston described his efforts as "part garden book, part musing study of our relation to nature through the oldest group of plants known to gardeners." But, as Roger Swain observes in his moving introduction, "Herbs and the Earth has an intensity that evokes the herbs themselves, as if, pressed between the pages, their aroma has seeped into the pages." The book is lovingly illustrated with the woodcuts of the great American stone cutter/letter designer/craftsman John Howard Benson.
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Customer Reviews
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An Herbalist's Bible
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-02-22
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Until you have read Herbs and the Earth by Henry Beston, you know half of what the Earth knows of magic, fine gardening and great literature. I have read most of the writers from Findhorn and Perelandra, as well as Emerson, Thoreau, Steiner and the rest; I find here a more authentic connection with the earth from one of the most eloquent translators of her many voices. You will find much love and lore in this book. Beston's depth and devotion will amaze and delight you. I consider this the herbalist's bible, if only they knew it!
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