Excellent, informative and delightful. This differs from many nature books in that Haskell has used local observations to expand on more general science topics – fungi, pest control, how chemicals move within leaves, to mention only a few – so that even though his “mandala” focus is in Tennessee...
I absolutely adored this book. It took me a long time to get through because it gets pretty technical, but I feel like I learned so much. Some chapters made me want to keep a notebook handy to take notes. There's just so much to absorb!It's not often that I read something that presents the scienc...