Herbs and the Earth

From one of America's most sensitive & fervent nature writers comes this classic of herbal lore & legend, new in paperback. This is not strictly a gardening book (although there is plenty for the gardener to learn from in it), but a singular example of a man thinking about what he grows -- not only how it grows, but its roots in religion, the Bible, history & medicine. The book was written at Chimney Farm, the Maine homestead immortalized in Northern Farm, to which he repaired in 1931 with his wife Elizabeth Coatsworth, & where he died in 1968. Beston described his efforts as "part garden book, part musing study of our relation to nature through the oldest group of plants known to gardeners." But, as Roger Swain observes in his moving introduction, "Herbs & the Earth has an intensity that evokes the herbs themselves, as if, pressed between the pages, their aroma has seeped into the pages." The book is lovingly illustrated with the woodcuts of the great American stone cutter/letter designer/craftsman John Howard Benson.Beston, Henry is the author of 'Herbs and the Earth' with ISBN 9781567921885 and ISBN 1567921884.