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	1 Kincaid, Jamaica Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya National Geographic 2005 0-7922-6530-0 / 9780792265306 Hardcover  Hardback with dustjacket - 2005 - good condition - ladylisabooks - used books, secondhand books, for sale, out of print books, hard to find books, second-hand books, college books, student books, nonfiction, first editions, exlibrary books sold, signed copies, non-fiction books delivered world wide. Isbn 0-7922-6530-0, 0792265300.Novelist Kincaid tells of her journey into the foothills of the Himalayas in search of rare plants to bring home to her Vermont garden. Much of the book feels repetitive, in an almost meditative way, as the author uses plain yet lyrical language to record the quotidian details of life in the wilderness. For Kincaid, everything on this trip eating, sleeping, bathing requires more effort than usual and sometimes even instills anxiety. Kincaid's details of meals and sleepless nights do grow tedious, and it isn't clear if the author is glad she decided to accompany her botanist friends on their trek, considering the constant threat of leeches and, much worse, the not unlikely (as she portrays it) possibility of losing her life at the hands of anti-American Maoist guerrillas ("Nothing could be more disturbing than sleeping in a village under the control of people who may or may not let you live"). Kincaid's fear never abates: "At some point I stopped making a distinction between the Maoists and the leeches." Occasionally, however, she is overcome with the beauty of the night sky, pilgrim destinations such as a sacred lake in Topke Gola, or the abundant flora, particularly "rhododendrons that were not shrubs, but trees thirty feet tall." This book is as much about a place as it is about overcoming  Price: 8.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Kincaid, Jamaica (Editor) My Favourite Plant Trafalgar Square 1999 0-09-928942-3 / 9780099289425 Paperback  Paperback in average condition. inscription on first page.AmazonThis anthology, by novelist Jamaica Kincaird is a fascinatingly quirky compilation of writings about plants by the people who love them. Some are exceedingly practical Ken Druse's essay "Desire under the Jacks" gives you allthe information you need to grow Arisaema triphyllum from seed, while others are more lyrical, such as Colette's writings on lilies and hellebores andthe poetry which is scattered in among the essays.Like a magazine there are pages you may skip over because you find the subject or style doesn't appeal to you, only to find yourself riveted by the next piece of writing which awakens in you a lust to own a plant, the existence of which you were unaware of a few minutes earlier. The very best writing opens your eyes to something new --an experience, an object, a place, orin this instance a plant, and every type of gardener, novice, expert or dreamer will find such writings within these pages.With its compact format this is a book that can be slipped into the pocket and dipped into in those moments that become available between life's many activities, or put next to a guest bed for the enjoyment of your visitors. The idiosyncratic typeface may not appeal at first, but you will get used to it .--Stephanie Donaldson.  Price: 4.00 GBP Add to Shopping Cart