{"product_id":"dispersals-on-plants-borders-and-belonging","title":"Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eBy Jessica J. Lee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHighly Commended for the Wainwright Prize 2024, Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2025, Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2025, Winner of the Taiwan Open Book Award 2024.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worlds\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCombining memoir, history, and scientific research in precise and poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong - or not - as they border cross, and reveals how all our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, and winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature, a Banff Mountain Book Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She is the author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cem\u003eTurning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo Trees Make a Forest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDispersals\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, children’s book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Garden Called Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and co-editor of the essay collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDog Hearted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and teaches creative writing at the University of King's College. She lives in Berlin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"飛地·紐西蘭 Nowhere Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48898011332843,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/0746\/4939\/files\/Dispersals.png?v=1781833741","url":"https:\/\/nowherebookstorenz.myshopify.com\/products\/dispersals-on-plants-borders-and-belonging","provider":"飛地·紐西蘭 Nowhere Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}