{"product_id":"cultivating-delight-a-natural-history-of-my-garden-9780060505363","title":"Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Ackerman has done it again ... one of the most buoyant and enjoyable garden reads ... uplifting, intelligent.\" -- \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the mode of her bestseller \u003cem\u003eA Natural History of the Senses, \u003c\/em\u003e Diane Ackerman celebrates the sensory pleasures of her garden through the seasons.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in sensuous, lyrical prose, \u003cem\u003eCultivating Delight\u003c\/em\u003e is a hymn to nature and to the pleasure we take in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAckerman, Diane:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePoet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of many highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, including \u003cem\u003eA Natural History of the Senses\u003c\/em\u003e -- a book beloved by readers all over the worldand the volumes \u003cem\u003eDeep Play, A Slender Thread, The Rarest of the Rare, A Natural History of Love, The Moon by Whale Light, \u003c\/em\u003e and a memoir on flying, \u003cem\u003eOn Extended Wings.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer poetry has been collected into six volumes, among them \u003cem\u003eJaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e and, most recently, \u003cem\u003ePraise My Destroyer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMs. Ackerman has received many prizes and awards, including the John Burroughs Nature Award and the Lavan Poetry Prize. A Visiting Professor at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, she was the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor at the University of Richmond. Ms. Ackerman also has the unusual distinction of having had a molecule named after her -- dianeackerone. She lives in upstate New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317790347538,"sku":"9780060505363","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5ed64f13-10bc-4757-b3cc-02352bbd62ed.jpg?v=1727540430","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cultivating-delight-a-natural-history-of-my-garden-9780060505363","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}