9780440504405

Second Nature

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780440504405

Paperback|9780440504405


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Eight years ago,Harper's Magazineeditor Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm. He planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau's example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic did not, of course, work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Michael Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life. The result is a funny, profound, and beautifully written book in the finest tradition of American nature writing. It inspires thoughts on the war of the roses; sex and class conflict in the garden; virtuous composting; the American lawn; seed catalogs, and the politics of planting a tree. A blend of meditation, autobiography, and social history,Second Natureis ultimately a modernWalden: a true classic for our time.

ISBN-13

9780440504405

ISBN-10

0440504406

Weight

0.67 Pounds

Dimensions

0.71 x 5.27 x 7.98 In

List Price

$10.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

320 pages

Publisher

Laurel

Published On

1992-04-05



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