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Jan. 23rd, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Kurt Vonnegut’s Life-Advice to His Children
Turning Loss and Loneliness into Wonder: How the Victorian Visionary Marianne North Revolutionized Art and Science with Her Botanical Paintings
The Blue Hour: A Stunning Illustrated Celebration of Nature’s Rarest Color
How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
And one from Google Books:
Krylov's Fables, translated into English verse
Comments
I've long been fascinated by the botanical explorers.
But this time I found myself thinking of the interiority of upper middle class British families from, say, 1800-1940. How often small groups of family members shared a life of the imaginative mind, as North and her father clearly did. And like the Brontes, the Farjeons, the Mitford's, and others. (I am not good at remembering things s lists.)
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