Edition details
Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Colour frontispiece and six full-page colour illustrations by Anagh Banerjee. Introduced by the author. Khaki endpapers. Three-quarter bound in blue cloth with title blocked on spine, printed textured paper front board printed with a colour picture. Fawn slipcase covered in a flecked recycled paper and printed on front in light green with a braided grass picture. 25x18cm. 400pp.
About the book
In Braiding Sweetgrass, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer brings scientific knowledge into conversation with Indigenous wisdom and her experience as a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Through essays about plants, landscapes, family and community, she considers what human beings can learn from the living world and what we owe it in return. Sweetgrass, strawberries, maple trees and other plants become starting points for reflections on gratitude, reciprocity, ecological restoration and the responsibilities of belonging to a place. Blending nature writing, memoir and environmental thought, Kimmerer asks readers to reconsider a relationship with the earth based on taking, and to imagine one sustained by care and mutual dependence.
