Book - The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World

Hardback, 285 pages, published 2001. Edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson. Excellent pre-owned condition. Very minor cosmetic wear to the edges, and there's a slight indentation on the corner of a front page that suggests a pencil note has been erased, but otherwise this copy is like new. Tight binding and all pages intact. No highlights, no dog-ears, no rips. "A celebration of both women's writing and the natural world. Since prehistory, plants--as sources of food, medicine, clothing, beauty, and life itself--have traditionally been the province of women. Here, editors Hogan and Peterson have published these subjects from a range of perspectives, by anthologizing three dozen selections. Included are essays and poems from healers and craftswomen, botanists and geneticists, and visionaries like Rachel Carson--who showed us the world (and our power to protect or destroy it) in a blade of grass. Zora Neale Hurston speaks on voodoo herbs, Sharman Apt Russell on the perfume of plants, Annick Smith on huckleberries, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on the Everglades, Isabel Allende on the language of flowers, Susan Orleans on "Orchid Fever," Diane Ackerman on the rain forest--and many more." 🌿💞🌱