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Title: Notes from the Shore by Jennifer Ackerman, Karin Grosz, Karen Grosz ISBN: 0670849243 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75
Rating: 4
Summary: A cautiously insightful blend of science and literature
Comment: Ackerman delivers a series of short, easy-to-read essays on life on the Delaware shore. In exploring nature's finely tuned patterns in the shore's flora and fauna, the author finds insight into the human existence. The science presented is often intriguing and her perceptions moving. However, the book is ambitious in the breadth of its focus and seems to only skim the surface of a subject matter in which Ackerman has only begun to show her mastery. I would have been more satisfied with deeper detail and exposition on the science behind and insights drawn from a narrower scope of observations and events. It must be confessed, though, that Ackerman's essays have whetted my enchantment with and interest in the world around me and this alone makes the book well worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lyrical, evocative, moving and...educational!
Comment: This is what a nonfiction book should be--thoughtful but packed with info. The author doesn't just give you a laundry list of flora and fauna--she adds her own layer of meaning. I loved it. Cried at the bit with her dad, and would like to know more, but it's probably just as well she didn't dwell on it. Recommended for a blustery day at the shore...or even for inlanders who wish they were there!
Rating: 5
Summary: A lyrical, interweaving of the human & natural worlds
Comment: In Notes From the Shore, Jenny Ackerman makes her mark as an important young writer. Her educated and imaginative relationship with nature makes this a unique and lovely book. The language is lyrical and sometimes startling ("stamps mate shamelessly"). Anyone with an appreciation of the natural world or fine writing will enjoy Notes from the Shore.
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Title: Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity by Jennifer Ackerman ISBN: 0618219099 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 17 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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