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Herbs And The Earth An Evocative Excursion Into The Lore & Legend Of Our Common Herbs

(Paperback Book )

by:
Beston, Henry

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Paperback Book :

144 Pages

Publisher:

Nonpareil Books

Pub. Date:

Mar 01, 2002

Photos:

Black and White Illustrations

Our Part #:

04028

ISBN-10:

1567921884

ISBN-13:

9781567921885

Description:

From one of America's most sensitive and evocative writers comes this classic of herbal lore and legend. Henry Beston is best known for The Outermost House, his record of a year spent on Cape Cod's outer beach. But here he moves inland and northward, to his beloved homestead in Nobleboro, Maine, to another adventure and a subject matter close to the earth and dear to his heart.

More than a gardening book, this is a singular example of a man thinking about what he grows, and into these conjectures weaving the fabric of the past. Here are the various herbs and their horitcultural characteristics; but here, as well, are their antecedents, their ancient lore, and their curious habits.

The mandrake and wormwood of the Bible; the hyssop and saffron from the Song of Songs, the rue, marjoram, and savory of Shakespeare, are all present. So, too, are the herbs of ancient Greece and Rome, the plants of the medieval medicinal garden and the crusades.

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