The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Peng... by Diane Ackerman

Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers. Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman’s new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden. General readers and scholars alike will delight in this anthology’s mix of the contemporary and the classic.Ĭultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden Here is a treasury of more than two hundred selections from Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘How Do I Love Thee?’ There are excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Madame Bovary, Justine, The Odyssey, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, as well as the letters from Baudelaire to Sabatier, George Eliot to Herbert Spencer, and Henry Miller to Ana’s Nin. Here is a panorama of fine writing about love’s many moods and majesties, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction, and marriage to the tempests of suspicion, jealousy, and heartache. People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.’ So writes Diane Ackerman in her insightful introduction. Perhaps this is why Cupid is depicted with a quiver of arrows, because love feels at times like being pierced in the chest.

How do we define love? ‘It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. OL12896W Page_number_confidence 89.13 Pages 278 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201206121742 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 478 Scandate 20201204143454 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781857990874 Tts_version 4.Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memoirs, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates humankind’s grandest pastime and obsession: love. Urn:lcp:moonbywhalelight0000acke:epub:27e30cd0-7b29-42c4-b5e5-16eac4aa7af7 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier moonbywhalelight0000acke Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3426rd28 Invoice 1652 Isbn 1857990870 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9513 Ocr_module_version 0.0.8 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400074 Openlibrary_edition

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The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Peng... by Diane Ackerman