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Gardening and the Great Outdoors


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Cover art for QUARTER-ACRE FARM
NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2011

"Perfect balance of tips, recipes and anecdotes for continual referencing."
The story of a farming experiment that reaped far more than fruits and vegetables. Read full book review >
Cover art for AND I SHALL HAVE SOME PEACE THERE
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 23, 2011

"A moving, eloquent and joyously idiosyncratic memoir."
The story of a successful 50-something woman who chose to quit a high-powered Manhattan job, move to the country and reinvent her life. Read full book review >
Cover art for SEASONS ON HARRIS
NONFICTION
Released: July 7, 2006

"All the plights and possibilities of traditional life, viewed through an exquisitely sensitive wide-angle lens. (39 line drawings)"
Yeadon (Seasons in Basilicata, 2004, etc.) chronicles a garrulous, well-spent year on the Scottish island where the famous tweed is woven. Read full book review >
Cover art for CHASING SPRING
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2006

"A captivating portrait of a beautiful, fragile and endangered world. "
An entertaining account of a three-month road trip across the American landscape by the former editor-in-chief of Natural History magazine. Read full book review >
Cover art for FOUR SEASONS IN FIVE SENSES
NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2003

"Intense, sensuous, lyrical, shaped by the sensibility of a poet and the eye of a farmer."
California farmer/memoirist Masumoto (Harvest Son, 1998, etc.) meanders through his fields and memories by way of the five senses. Read full book review >
Cover art for A GARDEN FROM A HUNDRED PACKETS OF SEED
NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2001

"Narrow but charming."
Fenton's highly personal musings on gardening with flowers that can be grown from seed. Read full book review >