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Product Identifiers

PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-100609600974

ISBN-139780609600979

eBay Product ID (ePID)237226

Product Key Features

Book TitleDear Mr. Jefferson : Letters from a Nantucket Gardener

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicRegional / General, General, Presidents & Heads of State, Essays & Narratives

Publication Year1998

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, Gardening

AuthorLaura Simon

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN97-027439

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Fascinating." --Michael Pollan,The New York Times Book Review "Remarkable...This book has the makings of a bestseller in gardening literature." --Keith Crotz,The American Botanist "A beguiling mix of history, whimsy and practicality...literate evocations of a place and passion." --Kirkus Reviews From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dewey Decimal635

SynopsisLaura Simon's garden in Nantucket is extraordinary in its beauty and its abundance. In her first work of nonfiction, she imagines a correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, another gardener extraordinaire.The result is an epistolary adventure with life lessons, history, and personalities amongst the blooms. Ms. Simon, looking for a way to express the gardening thrall she'd found herself in, wanted to talk shop, to discuss soil tilth and tillage, to compare varieties of carrots, and to analyze the relative merits of manure. One evening, while the author was sitting by her wood stove, feet buried beneath her dog and a stack of seed catalogs by her side, she wondered, "Why isn't there a 'Thomas Jefferson' around I can talk to?" After all, continued her musing, popular history has it that it was Thomas Jefferson who, at the dawn of our republic, convinced his countrymen that tomatoes weren't poisonous. So began the imagined conversations with Thomas Jefferson. Ms. Simon, whose previous books were historical romances, now finds inspiration from her peppers and peas. Dear Mr. Jefferson is a passionate, sometimes whimsical, always fascinating narrative, construed as letters to Thomas Jefferson. In these letters she tells him of the trials and tribulations of growing vegetables and flowers while relaying Jefferson's own gardening stories and passions as if she were having a dialogue with him. The book's charm and humor is heightened with personal anecdotes borne out of the author's attempt to explain the conundrums and advances of modernity to the eighteenth-century renaissance man. Simon weaves personal anecdote with anecdotal history creating an engaging narrative that titillates, educates, and entertains.

LC Classification NumberSB453.2.M4S55 1998