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Wild Flowers
Bridge K
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Description for Wild Flowers
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 177 x 7. Weight in Grams: 356.
Wild Flowers is a collection of Emily Carr's delightfully evocative impressions of native flowers and shrubs. She wrote these short pieces later in life and they rekindled in her strong childhood memories and associations. She delights in the brightness of buttercups that "let Spring's secret out", muses over the hardiness of stonecrop ("How any plant can grow on bare rock and be so fleshy leafed and fat is a marvel.") and declares that "botanical science has un-skunked the skunk cabbage". Carr's playful words often bring a smile to readers. About catnip, she writes: "I did think it was kind of ... Read more
Wild Flowers is a collection of Emily Carr's delightfully evocative impressions of native flowers and shrubs. She wrote these short pieces later in life and they rekindled in her strong childhood memories and associations. She delights in the brightness of buttercups that "let Spring's secret out", muses over the hardiness of stonecrop ("How any plant can grow on bare rock and be so fleshy leafed and fat is a marvel.") and declares that "botanical science has un-skunked the skunk cabbage". Carr's playful words often bring a smile to readers. About catnip, she writes: "I did think it was kind of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780772654533
SKU
V9780772654533
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99-24
About Bridge K
Beloved Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr (13 December 1871 to 2 March 1945) was born in Victoria, British Columbia. She studied art in the USA, England and France until 1911, when she moved back to British Columbia. Carr was most heavily influenced by the landscapes and First Nations cultures of British Columbia and Alaska. In the 1920s she came ... Read more
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