Of Arcs and Circles
Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art
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From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what art is. What trees are really made of. The true meaning of the enigmatic torii gate found at Shinto shrines. Why we give flowers as gifts. The essential, underlying unity of the world.
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Poetic Travel Log
- De Staci Adleman en 01-09-19
De: Craig Childs
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The Old Ways
- A Journey on Foot
- De: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 727
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 639
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 643
In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology, and literature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perfect pairing of prose and narrator
- De chris en 11-05-12
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The Cabaret of Plants
- Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
- De: Richard Mabey
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
A rich, sweeping, and compelling work of botanical history, The Cabaret of Plants explores dozens of plant species that for millennia have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty, and belief. Going back to the beginnings of human history, Richard Mabey shows how flowers, trees, and plants have been central to human experience not just as sources of food and medicine but as objects of worship, actors in creation myths, and symbols of war and peace, life and death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't wait to listen to again!
- De hyacinthgirl en 12-27-16
De: Richard Mabey
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The Habit of Rivers
- Reflections on Trout Streams and Fly Fishing
- De: Ted Leeson, John Gierach - foreword
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
Originally published in 1994, this book was a fly-fishing phenomenon in the way Howell Raines' Fly Fishing Through the Mid-Life Crisis was. Taking his fishing hobby to near metaphysical levels, Ted Leeson tells about his passions: rivers, trout, and fly fishing. With wry humor and rare insight, he explores questions that engage most fishermen: What is it about rivers that draws us so irresistibly, and why does fly fishing seem such an aptly suited response?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greatest Book I've Ever Listened To.
- De Travis en 03-17-18
De: Ted Leeson, y otros
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
- De: Elisabeth Tova Bailey
- Narrado por: Renee Raudman
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 292
Elisabeth Tova Bailey tells the intimate and inspiring story of her year-long encounter with a snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, she becomes an astute and amused observer of the snail's surprising nocturnal adventures as it lives in a flowerpot on her nightstand. Intrigued by the snail’s clear decision making abilities, hydraulic locomotion, mysterious courtship, and molluscan anatomy, Bailey takes the listener deep into the life of this tiny amazing animal. With wit and grace, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating recounts a remarkable journey of human and gastropod survival and resilience, and shows how the natural world illuminates our own human existence. Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Nonfiction, the John Burrough Medal Award for Natural History, and a National Outdoor Book Award. If you enjoyed Wesley the Owl, The Guest Cat, and Marley & Me, you'll enjoy this unique interspecies audiobook listen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is an unexpected wonder. The quiet virtues of the snail reflect the quiet voyage of the author.
- De Frances en 08-03-15
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Underground
- A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
- De: Will Hunt
- Narrado por: Will Hunt
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 165
A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities - an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An interesting unearthing of some awesome spaces
- De Garry en 02-23-19
De: Will Hunt
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The Turquoise Ledge
- De: Leslie Marmon Silko
- Narrado por: Alma Cuervo
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
Leslie Marmon Silko established herself as “the finest prose writer of her generation” (Larry McMurtry) with her debut novel Ceremony, one of the most acclaimed works of the 20th century. Of mixed Laguna Pueblo, Cherokee, Mexican, and white heritage, Silko brings a unique perspective to her powerful works. In this deeply personal and spiritual book, she combines memoirs, traditional storytelling, and ruminations on the natural world.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Crazy lady talks about aliens, snakes and rocks
- De Justice Campbell en 10-21-17
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My First Summer in the Sierra
- De: John Muir
- Narrado por: Brett Barry
- Duración: 6 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 471
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 410
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 409
It was June of 1869 when John Muir reluctantly accepted a job herding sheep from the central valley of California to the headwaters of the Merced and Tuolumne Rivers, high into the Sierra Nevadas and deep into the Yosemite region. He felt ill equipped for the work, and yet the opportunity thrilled his adventurous spirit. With a notebook tied to his belt, he set out for a summer he would never forget. My First Summer in the Sierra is Muir’s classic account of that extraordinary journey.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Almost every line is quotable
- De Kacy en 08-30-13
De: John Muir
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How to Read Nature
- An Expert's Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You've Never Noticed
- De: Tristan Gooley
- Narrado por: Qarie Marshall
- Duración: 3 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 101
Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His message is to connect - however we can and to whatever draws us in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fool sees not the same tree a wise man sees
- De Mark A Bleakley en 08-07-18
De: Tristan Gooley
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Poemcrazy
- Freeing Your Life with Words
- De: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Narrado por: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Her Words, Her Voice...
- De S. Schultz en 11-21-14
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A Place of My Own
- The Architecture of Daydreams
- De: Michael Pollan
- Narrado por: Michael Pollan
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,066
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 912
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 914
With this updated edition of his earlier book, A Place of My Own, listeners can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own—a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pollan is the master of hipster porn
- De Darwin8u en 02-28-15
De: Michael Pollan
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Atlas of a Lost World
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,031
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 916
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 917
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America 20,000 years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. This book upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Blaaaa
- De Josh NJ en 07-26-18
De: Craig Childs
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The Garden of Evening Mists
- De: Tan Twan Eng
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 15 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 767
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 675
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 678
Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan. Despite her hatred of the Japanese, Yun Ling seeks to engage Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister, who died in the camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best
- De Susan Gardner Bowers en 03-11-13
De: Tan Twan Eng
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The White Road
- Journey into an Obsession
- De: Edmund de Waal
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and best-selling international sensation The Hare with the Amber Eyes. In The White Road, best-selling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvelous and addictive
- De Elizabeth en 09-27-17
De: Edmund de Waal
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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
- De: Kij Johnson
- Narrado por: Kij Johnson
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 163
Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women's College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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it took me a few trys to ger through this audio
- De Melanie en 05-13-17
De: Kij Johnson
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Bright Rivers
- Celebrations of Rivers and Fly-fishing
- De: Nick Lyons
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 5 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Bright Rivers chronicles the angling passions and frustrations of one of fly-fishing's greatest men of letters. A city dweller trapped in the complexities of modern life, Nick Lyons has always found solace in his pilgrimages to great rivers. It is there that he fishes for trout, and in Bright Rivers, Lyons recounts the sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious experiences of his expeditions to the Delaware, Beaverkill, Madison, Big Hole, and Yellowstone rivers, sharing reminiscences of trout taken, released, and sometimes lost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First Nick Lyons Book and Quite Satisfied
- De Brian Kurtz en 04-21-22
De: Nick Lyons