Field Study, Helen Humphreys
Field Study, Helen Humphreys
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Field Study
Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium

Author: Helen Humphreys

Narrator: Helen Humphreys

Unabridged: 3 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 11/15/2021

Synopsis

“[A] delightful mix of memoir and field study.” — Publishers Weekly STARRED review Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left — no matter how diminished Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people who amassed collections of plant specimens in the 19th and 20th centuries. From Emily Dickinson’s and Henry David Thoreau’s collections to the amateur naturalists whose names are forgotten but whose collections still grace our world, herbariums are the records of the often-humble plants that are still with us and those that are lost. Over the course of a year, Humphreys considers life and loss and the importance of finding solace in nature.

About Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys is an acclaimed and award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her works include novels The Evening Chorus, Coventry, and Afterimage, and her nonfiction includes The Ghost Orchard and The Frozen Thames. She has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Toronto Book Award, and she has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and CBC Radio's Canada Reads.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stitching on June 20, 2024

This one was both charming and melancholy. The style is really agreeable and if you're the kind of person who enjoys thinking about small things and points of detail you might just fall in love with it. There's part of the book where the author talks about her final walk with her dog, Charlotte (why......more

Goodreads review by Annie on January 31, 2022

Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader. Field Study is a beautifully written, poetic, and meandering memoir by Helen Humphreys on botany, land sovereignty, life, and her work and studies in herbaria and botanical collections. Released 21st Sept 2021 by ECW Press, it's 232 pages and is avail......more

Goodreads review by angus on April 27, 2024

i credit this book with opening me to world of local ecology and history and their interconnectedness and the odd habits of the victorian settlers. either way i now always notice chicories as a walk about and think of the blue eyes of maidens. and i look forward to the coming spring to open my blue......more

Goodreads review by Nikan on June 01, 2022

The combination of learning about the plants at the Fowler herbarium and the author’s beautiful and thought provoking reflections on them (and life in general) was soothing and lovely! Such a nice little read.......more

Goodreads review by Maeve on August 16, 2024

this was a really gorgeously written book!! i didn’t expect it to be such a moving meditation on what it means to be alive, but it sure was and sure did make me cry! also; really fun that a lot of the plants were from places that i’ve been! love canadian content......more

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