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Title: |
Salal |
| Sub-title: |
Listening for the Northwest Understory |
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| By (author): |
Laurie Ricou |
| ISBN10-13: |
1897126220 : 9781897126226 |
| Illustrations: |
b/w photos |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
155x230mm |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Weight: |
.424 Kg. |
| Published: |
NeWest Press - September 2007 |
| List Price: |
26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Trees, wildflowers & plants |
| Salal is a unique book about a commonplace plant. Part travel narrative, part literary memoir, part "ethnography" of a plant that usually goes unnoticed, Laurie Ricouā s book traces the poetry and culture of salal, while letting readers in on its secrets. Salalā s high-gloss leaves and delicate salmon-white flowers are compelling, and as a staple of the floral greens industry its impact is global. Through interviews, commentary, and well-documented research, Ricou tells the stories of salal-how it is used, what it means to writers and artists, how it is gathered by itinerant immigrant workers but also housewives, and what the vagaries of the salal industry are all about. Longtime teacher Ricou records visits to Port Townsend and Pacific Spirit Park, to Courtenay and Victoria, to Calgary and San Antonio, to London and Paris, demonstrating that an uncharismatic plant could become an icon. At once about the West Coast region where salal thrives and the global routes and economy that determine its harvesting, Salal exposes the artificial divide between nature and culture, ecology and the marketplace. |
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"...not only well written, but well researched, giving me confidence in its accuracy and thoroughness." -- Nancy J. Turner, Canadian Literature.
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