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Title: The Essential Earthman by Henry Mitchell, Frances Tenebaum ISBN: 0-395-95768-0 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth a second try
Comment: I bought this book a few years ago based on the reviews. When I got it I tore into it and was sorely disappointed. That's the reason for 4 instead of 5 stars.
Why even 4 stars you ask? Well, about a month ago, for whatever reason, I picked it up again and now I LOVE IT!
Henry Mitchell is dry - like the soil under an oak. But he's terribly warm and fuzzy once you get to know him. I write a newsletter for my local garden club and have found quote after quote that I want to use for future issues. They're not la-dee-dah quotes that speak vaguely about the lovely joys of gardening. BLAH! Rather, they're jewels that point fingers at snobby gardeners and kill-joys who scold children for picking crocuses.
This is not a "pretty picture" book. It's sort of a how-to in an essay form. But more than that, it's great writing by a wonderful author on a topic I am crazy for.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read and read again
Comment: The two books I have read cover to cover as gardening advice and as literature are this book and Christopher Lloyd's Adventurous Gardener. I have shelves of gardening and horticultural books.
It gives you more each time you read it.
Rating: 5
Summary: please reprint this book!
Comment: I first read Henry Mitchell in the Washington Post when my husband was receiving cancer treatment at NIH in 1982, and when I realized that his columns were collected in The Essential Earthman I immediately bought a copy. I have subsequently owned (and loaned out and thus lost) two or three more copies. As each planting season arrives I remember how much I've missed reading Henry's wisdom, and I berate myself for having loaned out (and lost) those books. So for the sake of upcoming generations of gardeners (and the old hands among us), would someone please reprint this valuable book? It's a book to read in the depth of winter and the heat of summer, in a spacious country garden or a tiny city yard, for beginning gardeners and old timers with permanently-stained hands. There never has been anyone quite like Henry Mitchell on gardening, or on life, for that matter. Grouchy, opinionated, funny, informative, brutally honest--his words will never go out of style.
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Title: One Man's Garden by Henry Mitchell ISBN: 0395957699 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 14 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Henry Mitchell on Gardening by Allen Lacy, Henry Mitchell ISBN: 0395957672 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 14 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Any Day by Henry Mitchell, Susan Davis ISBN: 0253333083 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Gardener's Eye: And Other Essays by Allen Lacy ISBN: 080503952X Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Green Thoughts : A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perenyi, Allen Lacy ISBN: 037575945X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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