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Blue Pastures
	With consummate craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned fifteen luminous prose pieces: of nature, of writing, of herself and those around her. She praises Whitman ('the brother I did not have') and denounces cuteness ('we are, none of use, cute'). She notes where the extraordinary is to be found ('it is more likely to stick to the risk-taker than the ticket-taker') and extols solitude ('creative work needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to'). Nature speaks to her, and she speaks to nature ('I put my face close to the lily, where it stands just above the grass, and give it a good greeting from the stem of my heart'). Says Mary Oliver, 'This book is biased, opinionated; also it is joyful, and probably there's despair here too - can a life slide forward sixty years without it? But the reader will find the pleasures more certain, and more constant, than the rills of despond. Thus it has turned out in my life so far, influenced by the sustaining passions: love of the wild world, love of literature, love for and from another person'. Blue Pastures
Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
	In the mode of her bestseller 'A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman celebrates the sensory pleasures of her garden through the seasons. 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. Written in sensuous, lyrical prose, 'Cultivating Delight is a hymn to nature and to the pleasure we take in it. Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
Tracks in the Sea
	Navigation at sea was a matter of guesswork until well into the 19th century. Changing that became the obsession of Matthew Fontaine Maury. While others built railroads, Maury mapped highways of wind and current over the seas. Hearn uses Maury's career as a window on America's maritime development in the 19th century, including the clipper-ship era of the 1850s, the rise of steam and steel, and the Civil War. Tracks in the Sea

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