Earthly Pleasures: Tales From a Biologist's Garden - Hardcover

Roger B. Swain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684166577 ISBN 13: 9780684166575

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981

Synopsis

With the garden as his point of departure and covering the entire spectrum of nature, Swain offers insights into the familiar and the mysterious and demonstrates the interrelatedness of all aspects of life

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"You can't hurry maple syrup," writes Roger B. Swain at the beginning of Earthly Pleasures. As with Swain's home-brewed syrup, no reader should hurry through this classic collection of delightful and authoritative musings on the importance of duckweed, the impertinence of woodchucks, the vulnerability of backyard trees to lightning - and many other "everyday" intrigues of the natural world. (5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 208 pages, illustrations)

From Library Journal:

This duo from Swain made their debuts in 1978 and 1980, respectively. Each is chock-full of tidbits of information from the author, who is the science editor of Horticulture magazine and host of the PBS series The Victory Garden. Swain's style makes these both informative and entertaining. Both have new introductions.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0684166577
• ISBN 13: 9780684166575
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198
• Illustrator: Laszlo Kubinyi