| A Full Life in a Small Place and Other Essays from a Desert Garden Contributor(s): Bowers, Janice Emily (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816513570 ISBN-13: 9780816513574 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1992 Annotation: My three-year-old garden is a small, suburban plot located squarely in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. The location is crucial because, as every gardener knows, climate and soil determine what kinds of gardens we shall have--whether green lawns and flourishing rose beds or gravel paths and thrifty cacti. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Gardening | Flowers - General - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 635.909 |
| LCCN: 92030727 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.52" W x 8.42" (0.58 lbs) 178 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The frustrations and pleasures of gardening are evident; its implications for life are more subtle, lurking under a leaf or buried in a compost pile. Janice Emily Bowers senses these implications, and communicates them as only a fine writer can. In A Full Life in a Small Place, she shows how backyard gardening opens up a broader appreciation of both life and living. Her observations on organic gardening inspire further meditations on nature and wildlife, and demonstrate how gardens both complicate and enrich our lives. In their entirety, these sixteen essays ask how we shall live, and recognize that before we can determine how, we need to find out why. |