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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Publication Date
2021-05-04
Pages
416
ISBN
9781771647687
Book Title
Seed to Dust : a Gardener's Story
Publisher
Greystone Books LTD.
Item Length
8.8 in
Publication Year
2021
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
Marc Hamer
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, Gardening
Topic
Environmentalists & Naturalists, Agriculture / General, Essays, Essays & Narratives
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Item Width
5.8 in
Number of Pages
416 Pages

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Publisher
Greystone Books LTD.
ISBN-10
177164768X
ISBN-13
9781771647687
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9050406387

Product Key Features

Book Title
Seed to Dust : a Gardener's Story
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmentalists & Naturalists, Agriculture / General, Essays, Essays & Narratives
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, Gardening
Author
Marc Hamer
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.8 in

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LCCN
2021-279201
Reviews
"Combining memoir, nature writing and philosophy, Seed to Dust is an evocative book that transcends genre and geography." --Shelf Awareness "[An] invaluably original view of one man in his garden, or at least Miss Cashmere's garden, noticing the tiny things that the busy world ignores, as did Thomas Hardy, who famously portrayed himself in a poem as 'a man who used to notice such things': the little things, the tiny unremarked pleasures and beauties of the workaday world around us." --Daily Mail "I'm so grateful that this kindred spirit set aside his tools awhile and came indoors to write. No facet of nature, however subtle, eludes Marc Hamer--and I relish being invited along on each intimate adventure." --Margaret Roach, author of A Way to Garden "Seed to Dust draws on Hamer's deep sense of connection with plants and the earth as well as a lifetime of experience. Beautifully observed and quietly reflective, this is an absorbing and life-affirming read." --Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well-Gardened Mind Praise for How to Catch a Mole: "This is an extraordinary book: part natural history, part memoir, part poetry--all entirely gorgeous. I've read no other book like this. Its beauty and heartbreak will stay with me for a long time. PS: the author stops killing moles, thank goodness." --Sy Montgomery,New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus "[Marc Hamer's] wonderful book, How to Catch a Mole, is a beautiful, elegiac ode to a remarkable creature. Each page is filled with wonder, love, regret, humility and a sense of wonder (and oneness) with nature." --Washington Post "Informative and effortlessly readable... Ultimately a reflection on humanity's fraught but sustaining relationship with nature." --Publishers Weekly "How to Catch a Mole is a small book of many things. In quiet, crystalline prose, it blends memoir, keen observations of nature, and ruminations about life, aging and death." --Wall Street Journal "Welsh molecatcher, gardener--and debut author--does not disappoint. How to Catch a Mole soars on the plain-spoken yet eloquent observations of its author and incorporates poetry and philosophy." --Toronto Star "Marc Hamer's uplifting writings shed some light on the velvety creatures burrowing beneath our countryside." --National Geographic Traveller "A beguiling mixture: part autobiography, part handbook, part travel book, part philosophical treatise. I'm happy to report that it succeeds on each level."" --Daily Mail, "Combining memoir, nature writing and philosophy, Seed to Dust is an evocative book that transcends genre and geography." --Shelf Awareness "A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden." --Daily Mail "I'm so grateful that this kindred spirit set aside his tools awhile and came indoors to write. No facet of nature, however subtle, eludes Marc Hamer--and I relish being invited along on each intimate adventure." --Margaret Roach, author of A Way to Garden "[Hamer] is a life-hardened man who has made himself soft...a man who has come through." --The Guardian "An intensely lyrical account of a single year." --Mail on Sunday (UK) "Beautiful... gardeners and armchair philosophers will find his musings strike a chord." --Publishers Weekly "A meditative account of a year in the twelve-acre British garden [Hamer] tended for decades. Seed to Dust posits nature and love as consolations for life's sadness." --Foreword Reviews "Hamer uses the material all around as the springboard for reflections on how to live a small-scale, spiritually aware life. ...making the case for seeing our place within nature, and relishing our contact with it." --The Herald (UK) "Seed to Dust draws on Hamer's deep sense of connection with plants and the earth as well as a lifetime of experience. Beautifully observed and quietly reflective, this is an absorbing and life-affirming read." --Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well-Gardened Mind "An escape from the chaos of the world... [Marc Hamer] brings the reader right alongside him as he works, so we can really feel the sting of the rose thorns and the energy of a garden awakening and blooming." --Lulah Ellender, author of Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines Praise for How to Catch a Mole: "This is an extraordinary book: part natural history, part memoir, part poetry--all entirely gorgeous. I've read no other book like this. Its beauty and heartbreak will stay with me for a long time. PS: the author stops killing moles, thank goodness." --Sy Montgomery,New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus "[Marc Hamer's] wonderful book, How to Catch a Mole, is a beautiful, elegiac ode to a remarkable creature. Each page is filled with wonder, love, regret, humility and a sense of wonder (and oneness) with nature." --Washington Post "Informative and effortlessly readable... Ultimately a reflection on humanity's fraught but sustaining relationship with nature." --Publishers Weekly "How to Catch a Mole is a small book of many things. In quiet, crystalline prose, it blends memoir, keen observations of nature, and ruminations about life, aging and death." --Wall Street Journal "Welsh molecatcher, gardener--and debut author--does not disappoint. How to Catch a Mole soars on the plain-spoken yet eloquent observations of its author and incorporates poetry and philosophy." --Toronto Star "Marc Hamer's uplifting writings shed some light on the velvety creatures burrowing beneath our countryside." --National Geographic Traveller "A beguiling mixture: part autobiography, part handbook, part travel book, part philosophical treatise. I'm happy to report that it succeeds on each level."" --Daily Mail, Praise for How to Catch a Mole: "This is an extraordinary book: part natural history, part memoir, part poetry--all entirely gorgeous. I've read no other book like this. Its beauty and heartbreak will stay with me for a long time. PS: the author stops killing moles, thank goodness." --Sy Montgomery,New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus "[Marc Hamer's] wonderful book, How to Catch a Mole, is a beautiful, elegiac ode to a remarkable creature. Each page is filled with wonder, love, regret, humility and a sense of wonder (and oneness) with nature." --Washington Post "Informative and effortlessly readable... Ultimately a reflection on humanity's fraught but sustaining relationship with nature." --Publishers Weekly "How to Catch a Mole is a small book of many things. In quiet, crystalline prose, it blends memoir, keen observations of nature, and ruminations about life, aging and death." --Wall Street Journal "Welsh molecatcher, gardener--and debut author--does not disappoint. How to Catch a Mole soars on the plain-spoken yet eloquent observations of its author and incorporates poetry and philosophy." --Toronto Star "Marc Hamer's uplifting writings shed some light on the velvety creatures burrowing beneath our countryside." --National Geographic Traveller "A beguiling mixture: part autobiography, part handbook, part travel book, part philosophical treatise. I'm happy to report that it succeeds on each level."" --Daily Mail, "Combining memoir, nature writing and philosophy, Seed to Dust is an evocative book that transcends genre and geography." --Shelf Awareness "A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden." --Daily Mail "Hamer has a canny way of divining the sacred in the quotidian." --Booklist "I''m so grateful that this kindred spirit set aside his tools awhile and came indoors to write. No facet of nature, however subtle, eludes Marc Hamer--and I relish being invited along on each intimate adventure." --Margaret Roach, author of A Way to Garden "[Hamer] is a life-hardened man who has made himself soft...a man who has come through." --The Guardian "An intensely lyrical account of a single year." --Mail on Sunday (UK) "Beautiful... gardeners and armchair philosophers will find his musings strike a chord." --Publishers Weekly "A meditative account of a year in the twelve-acre British garden [Hamer] tended for decades. Seed to Dust posits nature and love as consolations for life''s sadness." --Foreword Reviews "In Seed to Dust: Life, Nature, and a Country Garden, Hamer showcases his intimate knowledge of the natural world... Hamer''s careful eye for detail and deep knowledge of the garden''s dozens upon dozens of plants are used to great effect, creating a lush landscape into which a reader can disappear. In Seed to Dust, Hamer invites readers to join him in quiet meditation on the earth." --Book Page "Hamer uses the material all around as the springboard for reflections on how to live a small-scale, spiritually aware life. ...making the case for seeing our place within nature, and relishing our contact with it." --The Herald (UK) "Seed to Dust draws on Hamer''s deep sense of connection with plants and the earth as well as a lifetime of experience. Beautifully observed and quietly reflective, this is an absorbing and life-affirming read." --Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well-Gardened Mind "An escape from the chaos of the world... [Marc Hamer] brings the reader right alongside him as he works, so we can really feel the sting of the rose thorns and the energy of a garden awakening and blooming." --Lulah Ellender, author of Elisabeth''s Lists: A Life Between the Lines Praise for How to Catch a Mole: "This is an extraordinary book: part natural history, part memoir, part poetry--all entirely gorgeous. I''ve read no other book like this. Its beauty and heartbreak will stay with me for a long time. PS: the author stops killing moles, thank goodness." --Sy Montgomery,New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus "[Marc Hamer''s] wonderful book, How to Catch a Mole, is a beautiful, elegiac ode to a remarkable creature. Each page is filled with wonder, love, regret, humility and a sense of wonder (and oneness) with nature." --Washington Post "Informative and effortlessly readable... Ultimately a reflection on humanity''s fraught but sustaining relationship with nature." --Publishers Weekly "How to Catch a Mole is a small book of many things. In quiet, crystalline prose, it blends memoir, keen observations of nature, and ruminations about life, aging and death." --Wall Street Journal "Welsh molecatcher, gardener--and debut author--does not disappoint. How to Catch a Mole soars on the plain-spoken yet eloquent observations of its author and incorporates poetry and philosophy." --Toronto Star "Marc Hamer''s uplifting writings shed some light on the velvety creatures burrowing beneath our countryside." --National Geographic Traveller "A beguiling mixture: part autobiography, part handbook, part travel book, part philosophical treatise. I''m happy to report that it succeeds on each level."" --Daily Mail, "Combining memoir, nature writing and philosophy, Seed to Dust is an evocative book that transcends genre and geography." --Shelf Awareness "A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden." --Daily Mail "I'm so grateful that this kindred spirit set aside his tools awhile and came indoors to write. No facet of nature, however subtle, eludes Marc Hamer--and I relish being invited along on each intimate adventure." --Margaret Roach, author of A Way to Garden "[Hamer] is a life-hardened man who has made himself soft...a man who has comethrough." --The Guardian "An intensely lyrical account of a single year." --Mail on Sunday (UK) "Hamer uses the material all around as the springboard for reflections on how to live a small-scale, spiritually aware life. ...making the case for seeing our place within nature, and relishing our contact with it." --The Herald (UK) "Seed to Dust draws on Hamer's deep sense of connection with plants and the earth as well as a lifetime of experience. Beautifully observed and quietly reflective, this is an absorbing and life-affirming read." --Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well-Gardened Mind "An escape from the chaos of the world... [Marc Hamer] brings the reader right alongside him as he works, so we can really feel the sting of the rose thorns and the energy of a garden awakening and blooming." --Lulah Ellender, author of Elisabeth's Lists: A Life Between the Lines Praise for How to Catch a Mole: "This is an extraordinary book: part natural history, part memoir, part poetry--all entirely gorgeous. I've read no other book like this. Its beauty and heartbreak will stay with me for a long time. PS: the author stops killing moles, thank goodness." --Sy Montgomery,New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus "[Marc Hamer's] wonderful book, How to Catch a Mole, is a beautiful, elegiac ode to a remarkable creature. Each page is filled with wonder, love, regret, humility and a sense of wonder (and oneness) with nature." --Washington Post "Informative and effortlessly readable... Ultimately a reflection on humanity's fraught but sustaining relationship with nature." --Publishers Weekly "How to Catch a Mole is a small book of many things. In quiet, crystalline prose, it blends memoir, keen observations of nature, and ruminations about life, aging and death." --Wall Street Journal "Welsh molecatcher, gardener--and debut author--does not disappoint. How to Catch a Mole soars on the plain-spoken yet eloquent observations of its author and incorporates poetry and philosophy." --Toronto Star "Marc Hamer's uplifting writings shed some light on the velvety creatures burrowing beneath our countryside." --National Geographic Traveller "A beguiling mixture: part autobiography, part handbook, part travel book, part philosophical treatise. I'm happy to report that it succeeds on each level."" --Daily Mail, "Combining memoir, nature writing and philosophy, Seed to Dust is an evocative book that transcends genre and geography." --Shelf Awareness "A wholly original, semi-autobiographical book on how to live, how to be calm and content with only a little, in a quietly humming garden." --Daily Mail "I''m so grateful that this kindred spirit set aside his tools awhile and came indoors to write. No facet of nature, however subtle, eludes Marc Hamer--and I relish being invited along on each intimate adventure." --Margaret Roach, author of A Way to Garden "[Hamer] is a life-hardened man who has made himself soft...a man who has come through." --The Guardian "An intensely lyrical account of a single year." --Mail on Sunday (UK) "Beautiful... gardeners and armchair philosophers will find his musings strike a chord." --Publishers Weekly "A meditative account of a year in the twelve-acre British garden [Hamer] tended for decades. Seed to Dust posits nature and love as consolations for life''s sadness." --Foreword Reviews "In Seed to Dust: Life, Nature, and a Country Garden, Hamer showcases his intimate knowledge of the natural world... Hamer''s careful eye for detail and deep knowledge of the garden''s dozens upon dozens of plants are used to great effect, creating a lush landscape into which a reader can disappear. In Seed to Dust, Hamer invites readers to join him in quiet meditation on the earth." --Book Page "Hamer uses the material all around as the springboard for reflections on how to live a small-scale, spiritually aware life. ...making the case for seeing our place within nature, and relishing our contact with it." --The Herald (UK) "Seed to Dust draws on Hamer''s deep sense of connection with plants and the earth as well as a lifetime of experience. Beautifully observed and quietly reflective, this is an absorbing and life-affirming read." --Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well-Gardened Mind "An escape from the chaos of the world... [Marc Hamer] brings the reader right alongside him as he works, so we can really feel the sting of the rose thorns and the energy of a garden awakening and blooming." --Lulah Ellender, author of Elisabeth''s Lists: A Life Between the Lines Praise for How to Catch a Mole: "This is an extraordinary book: part natural history, part memoir, part poetry--all entirely gorgeous. I''ve read no other book like this. Its beauty and heartbreak will stay with me for a long time. PS: the author stops killing moles, thank goodness." --Sy Montgomery,New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus "[Marc Hamer''s] wonderful book, How to Catch a Mole, is a beautiful, elegiac ode to a remarkable creature. Each page is filled with wonder, love, regret, humility and a sense of wonder (and oneness) with nature." --Washington Post "Informative and effortlessly readable... Ultimately a reflection on humanity''s fraught but sustaining relationship with nature." --Publishers Weekly "How to Catch a Mole is a small book of many things. In quiet, crystalline prose, it blends memoir, keen observations of nature, and ruminations about life, aging and death." --Wall Street Journal "Welsh molecatcher, gardener--and debut author--does not disappoint. How to Catch a Mole soars on the plain-spoken yet eloquent observations of its author and incorporates poetry and philosophy." --Toronto Star "Marc Hamer''s uplifting writings shed some light on the velvety creatures burrowing beneath our countryside." --National Geographic Traveller "A beguiling mixture: part autobiography, part handbook, part travel book, part philosophical treatise. I''m happy to report that it succeeds on each level."" --Daily Mail
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
635.09429
Table Of Content
Prologue January White Beginnings Peppered Moth February Returning Ice Jasmine Another Gardener Climbing Hydrangea A Story Cyclops Code-breaker Wood Pigeon The Old North 'I'm Here, Are You There?' She Needs a Stick March Grass Sprouts, Trees Bud Cosmos March Frost Pruning Roses Snow Peonies Potatoes Rattle in a Pan Cherry Buds Appear The Middle Way Sparrows Begin to Nest Bees Daffodils Narcissus--Are You There? Minotaur April Distant Thunder A Vase of Cherries Dahlias Girlish Love Is . . . The Window Cleaner Tulpen Swifts Arrive Song World Sings A Broken Heart Mouse Mowing in the Rain Floating Islands May Peonies Bloom Gulls Rip Grass Holy Thorn Mercedes An Endless Stream of Days Fossils Night Scents Burning Books Sun! Heart Maybug Rain, No Rain June A Dumb Labourer Visits A New Path Cold Returns Solstice In Your Garden A Round of Applause Aphids July Stoics Wabi-sabi Pelargoniums Flying Ants Day Swifts Leave Pine Cones Carp Green Flames August Cofiwch Dryweryn (Coffee-ookh Dre-weh-rin) Umbellifers Fountain Cats and Dogs Distant Sounds Pond Scum Laurels A Break Gathering Seeds September The Waste Land 'Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird' The Many-Forking Path Colchicums Scything the Meadow Autumn Equinox October Go Now, Bonnie Boy October Mist Birthday Whisky Molecatcher Our Lady of the Flowers Apples First Snow November Hop-tu-Naa Frost Anemone to Zantedeschia The Great Riddle of the Self Haiku Gipsies The Lily Gardens Lifting Dahlias Leaving December We Barely Spoke, I Tell Myself . . . Back to Work The Floating World Home Flowers Postscript and Acknowledgements
Synopsis
For readers of Late Migrations and H is for Hawk A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, " that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing."-- Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review) "With chapters. . . [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery. . . Seed to Dust is an invitation to read this world as Mr. Hamer does--with a close eye to what changes, and what does not." --The Wall Street Journal Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and intricate. It's rarely visited, and only Hamer knows of its secrets. But it's not his garden. It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss Cashmere. But the garden does not really belong to her, either. As Hamer writes, "Like a book, a garden belongs to everyone who sees it." In Seed to Dust, Marc Hamer paints a beautiful portrait of the garden that "belongs to everyone." He describes a year in his life as a country gardener, with each chapter named for the month he's in. As he works, he muses on the unusual folklores of his beloved plants. He observes the creatures who scurry and hide from his blade or rake. And he reflects on his own life: living homeless as a young man, his loving relationship with his wife and children, and--now--feeling the effects of old age on body and mind. As the seasons change, Hamer also reflects on the changes he has observed in Miss Cashmere's life from afar: the death of her husband and the departure of her children from the stately home where she now lives alone. At the book's end, Hamer's connection to Miss Cashmere changes shape, and new insights into relationships and the beauty and brutality of nature emerge. Just like all good books and gardens, Seed to Dust is filled with equal parts life and death, beauty and decay, and every reader will find something different to admire.
LC Classification Number
SB455.H3225 2021

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