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Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education Review
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Who could have predicted that a young Michael Pollan writing about gardening would become a leading advocate for responsible agriculture and one of the country’s biggest-selling writers? Just about anyone who read him then, is my guess. Pollan shows in this gem of a book what a terrific and layered writer he is.
For all the fantastic writing, the book, however, is uneven. Many of the chapters were published as magazine articles before the book came out, and it shows. The organization of the book by seasons is forced and the individual chapters in each section don’t always belong. Pollan makes a good effort of tying it all together with memories of his grandfather’s garden (and the characters of the grandfather and his garden in the beginning narrative are worth the price of admission), but in the end the individual narratives don’t hold together as well as later Pollan books manage to do.
But don’t let this stop you. Push through some of the more boring chapters (or skip them altogether, since the one advantage of the choppy nature of the book is that each chapter stands alone well), and you’ll be rewarded with the absolute perfection of others. My favorite, the chapter about seed catalogs, is at once observational journalism, literary criticism, and writing master class.
If you came to this book the same way I did (which is to say, after reading Pollan’s more recent work, including his magnum opus “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”), I think you’ll find enjoyment in seeing his earlier achievement as a writer, a science journalist, and a modern environmentalist. Don’t miss it.
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Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education Overview
In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man’s place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere. Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its glory and exasperation. With chapters ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn, a dispatch from one man’s war with a woodchuck, to an essay about the sexual politics of roses, Pollan has created a passionate and eloquent argument for reconceiving our relationship with nature.
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