A Full Life in a Small Place and Other Essays from a Desert Garden

by Janice Emily Bowers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816513570
• ISBN13: 9780816513574
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

One of my all-time favorite books

A wonderful tome by Janice Emily Bowers. These essays combine gardening, ecology and self reflection with a wonderful use of vocabulary. Thoroughly enjoyable; definitely not a one-read book!