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Dispersals : on plants, borders and belonging

Lee, Jessica J., 1986- author

2024

Overview

A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean. A tree is planted on a shifting border. A shrub is uprooted from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion. In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them. Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being 'out of place'- whether weeds, samples collected through imperial science, or crops introduced and transformed by our hand.

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Subject: Human-plant relationships. / Plants Dispersal. / Plants, Useful. / Invasive plants. / Environment and Ecology.
• ISBN: 9780241597125

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
QK46.5.H85 L44 2024	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT