Books and Nature #TopTenTuesday
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic at That Artsy Reader Girl is “Covers/Titles with Things Found in Nature.”
Five books featuring naturalists, with a heavy emphasis on botany:
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley. This was the first book I thought of when I saw this week’s topic, even though I read and reviewed it in 2011. My association with the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker goes even farther back in time.
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert. The main character is obsessed with the natural world, especially plants, at a time when that wasn’t considered natural for women of her class.
A Flower for the Queen by Caroline Vermalle and Ryan von Ruben. This book, set in Kew Gardens in England and in South Africa, continues the historical botanical explorer theme.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This lovely nonfiction book is about healing ourselves and the world by learning non-European ways of encountering plants.
Zarafa: A Giraffe’s True Story from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin. In my mind, this book is related to botany because I took a trip with the Missouri Botanical Garden to France where we visited the Jardin des Plantes, the Paris site for Zarafa.
Two book covers featuring artist drawings from nature:
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. Gender Queer is an autobiography in graphic novel format. I like the seascape/landscape cover of the book.
How Georgia Became O’Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living by Karen Karbo. Of course, a book about Georgia O’Keeffe is going to have a flower on the cover.
Three books with covers featuring flowers, just because they’re pretty:
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow.
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown.
