Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging MS Drawing on a decade of

Drawing on a decade of original research

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Bakewell brings together extraordinary humanists across history

Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging MS Drawing on a decade ofA prize winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere? In fourteen essays, Dispersals explores the entanglements