Drawing Botany Home
Natasa Ilic
, Kirsten Lyon
, Dawn Macdonald
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Barry Kazimer
, Sarah Schwartz
, Linda Leitch
, Trish Bowering
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Linda Ham
, Noelle Walsh
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Laurie Burns
, Alice Meems
, Judith Pearson
, Deb Philippon
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Andrea Gillespie
, Val Ross
, Kailey Gallant
, Melissa Poremba
, Agnes Marshall
, Vanessa S
, Russell Reitsema
, Andrea Pole
, Lisa Mallia
, Farees Ahmed
, Elmira Olson
, Pearl Pirie
, Michelle Brown-Matthews
, finn mulryan
, Karen Reid
, Luna Anderson Gillis
, Joshua Lewis
, Janet Meisner
, Dani Kat
, Janice Cournoyer
, Margaret McKay
, Cindy Bodini
, Beth Follett
, Megan Bishop
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Filomena Falocco
, Karen Kendrick
, Sharon Norman
, Kathryn Galan
, Karen Nordrum
, Rachel Edmonds
, C. Ray
, Leslie Vermeer
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Katherine Koller
, Kate Trgovac
, Randi Ann Doll
, Kelsey Attard
, Heather Belliveau
, Lynn Hallson
, Pam Keetch
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Christopher Evans
, Mary Danieli
, Ken Gilmour
, Rhona Brinkman
, Kim Cappellina
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Alex Henderson
, Benita Hartwell
, Ellen Clarke
, Debbie Youngman
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Christine Lion
, Debra Fisher
, P. Thompson
, Wendy Houlden
, Catherine Westerberg
, Susan Jang
, Jen Bailey
, laura martina
, Margot Stafford
, Patricia Johnson
, Rita O'Sullivan
, Susi Lovell
, Beth Dekoker
, Elisha Lazarski
, Thelma Ball
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Janet Hosokawa
, Jenn George
, Shawna Moodie
, Olivia Pellegrino
editor@49thShelf.com
A beautifully illustrated natural history memoir that reminds the reader that re-storying our relationship with the plants of home can be our first step in restoring the world.
In a world made precarious by human mobility, all of us can learn from those who root in place. Plants surround us, yet all too often we ignore their quiet and complex lives. When a new job brings botanist and artist Lyn Baldwin back to her childhood home in southern British Columbia, she is challenged to confront both the cost of her mobility and the assumptions of her profession. If nearly three decades spent in motion gave Lyn scientific credentials and a career, it also made her a stranger to home and country. Lonely and homesick, Lyn runs outside. She doesn’t go far—rarely more than a day’s drive from Kamloops, BC—but within the pages of her field journal, the slow confluence of art and science allows Lyn to learn not just about but from the green wisdom of her neighbours.
Tutored by the plants of forest and garden, wilderness and wetland, Lyn realizes that her botany never has been, and never will be, a placeless science. Instead, Drawing Botany Home gives Lyn the metaphors to reconcile the dark horror of settler/Indigenous relations and the hard edges of her own childhood: poverty, a traumatic fire, unwanted stepfathers, a hippie mother.
