{"product_id":"9780241996881-dispersals","title":"Dispersals","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn Plants, Borders and Belonging\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE ASLE-UKI BOOK PRIZE 2025\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘An invigorating cross-pollination of memoir and natural history, both beautifully phrased and delicately structured – this book deserves your time and attention’ Cal Flyn, author of\u003ci\u003e Islands of Abandonment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDispersals\u003c\/i\u003e, she examines the echoes and counterpoints in the migration of plants and people – and the language we use to describe them. Combining memoir, history and scientific research, Lee questions how both plants and people come to belong – or not – and reveals how all our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Contemplative, elegant’ \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'At once expansive and intimate, and most of all, gorgeously written. This is a book I will return to often over the course of my life’ Nina Mingya Powles, author of \u003ci\u003eSmall Bodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41724341420129,"sku":"9780241996881","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33675313.jpg?v=1744337180","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241996881-dispersals","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}