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Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener by Browning, Dominique
by Browning, Dominique | PB | LikeNew
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
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- ISBN
- 9780743251099
- Book Title
- Paths of Desire : the Passions of a Suburban Gardener
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Gardening
- Topic
- General, Literary, Essays & Narratives
- Item Weight
- 9.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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With the same warmth, wisdom, wit, and accessibility that readers have come to love and trust in her monthly column, House & Garden editor in chief Dominique Browning offers this lively, charming, and instructive story of restoring a neglected suburban garden. When a retaining wall in Browning's New York suburban garden collapsed, she was forced into action. Paths of Desire is the enchanting, amusing, and moving account of making a garden -- and confronting the essence of suburban gardening, with its idiosyncratic ecosystem. This meant struggling with depraved skunks and raccoons, marauding teenagers, plastic jungle gyms, toppling garbage cans, uncontrollable eyesores, potholed drives, and all the grinding, honking, and buzzing of the neighborhood. Browning's delightfully frank prose conveys the very sense of being deep in a garden, with all its organic smells and textures, and the myriad joys of deciding what to plant and watching as the vision is realized. It contains a rich store of advice and illustrative anecdotes for enthusiasts and novices alike, as Browning amusingly documents the missteps she took in the planning of her garden and the satisfactions of finally getting it right. In Paths of Desire she teaches us how to embrace our plots of land -- no matter their size, beauty, or proximity to the city -- and make them our own. But she also reminds us that the life of a garden can never be separated from the people who wander in and out of it: characters like the charming but useless children; the philosophical tree doctor and the band of Helpful Men; the neighbors -- legalistic on one side, aesthetically challenged on the other -- and, best and worst of all, the True Love. By the end of the book, Browning has transformed her garden -- and her life -- and has created a place of enchantment, which is most of all what a garden should be.
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Scribner
ISBN-10
0743251091
ISBN-13
9780743251099
eBay Product ID (ePID)
31002990
Product Key Features
Book Title
Paths of Desire : the Passions of a Suburban Gardener
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
General, Literary, Essays & Narratives
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Gardening
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
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0
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Michael Pollanauthor of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World With this delightful book, Dominique Browning takes her rightful place in the ongoing over-the-back-fence conversation among American gardeners, that tribe of literate amateurs -- writers first, horticulturists second -- who limn whole worlds in the space of a suburban yard., Michael Pollan author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World With this delightful book, Dominique Browning takes her rightful place in the ongoing over-the-back-fence conversation among American gardeners, that tribe of literate amateurs -- writers first, horticulturists second -- who limn whole worlds in the space of a suburban yard., Penelope Hobhouse garden historian and author of Gardens of Persia Dominique Browning celebrates her personal passion, making an engrossing and illuminating read. I loved the book., Michael Pollanauthor ofThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the WorldWith this delightful book, Dominique Browning takes her rightful place in the ongoing over-the-back-fence conversation among American gardeners, that tribe of literate amateurs -- writers first, horticulturists second -- who limn whole worlds in the space of a suburban yard., Penelope Hobhousegarden historian and author ofGardens of PersiaDominique Browning celebrates her personal passion, making an engrossing and illuminating read. I loved the book., Penelope Hobhousegarden historian and author of Gardens of Persia Dominique Browning celebrates her personal passion, making an engrossing and illuminating read. I loved the book.
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2005
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