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Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman

·3.56·75,645 Ratings
“ You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. ” ― Andrè Gide
Authors' Books
  • The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales

    1996·
    ·4.18·789 Ratings
    In a rare blend of scientific fact and poetic truth, the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses explores the activities of whales, penguins, bats, and crocodilians, plunging headlong into nature and coming up with highly entertaining treasure
  • Deep Play

    2000·
    ·3.83·396 Ratings
    With A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman let her free-ranging intellect loose on the natural world.  Now in Deep Play she tackles the realm of creativity, by exploring one of the most essential aspects of our characters: the abitlity to play
  • An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

    2005·
    ·3.91·976 Ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Zookeeper's Wife, an ambitious and enlightening work that combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never before, the magic and mysteries of the human mind. Long treasured by
  • I Praise My Destroyer: Poems

    2000·
    ·3.94·128 Ratings
    In her first new book of poetry since Jaguar of Sweet Laughter, poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman combines her deep understanding of the world with her immense passion for language to craft richly sensual poems that "honor all life/wherever and in whatev
  • A Slender Thread

    1996··German
    ·3.9·223 Ratings
  • Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

    2001·
    ·3.98·458 Ratings
    In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is dea
  • The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds

    1997·
    ·4.12·297 Ratings
    Ackerman journeys in search of monarch butterflies and short-tailed albatrosses, monk seals and golden lion tamarin monkeys: the world's rarest creatures and their vanishing habitats. She delivers a rapturous celebration of other species that is also a wa
  • Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire

    2003·
    ·3.59·94 Ratings
    At the heart of Origami Bridges is the delicate relationship of trust between analyst and patient, a relationship that grows out of the emotional give-and-take of the psychoanalytic process. In this collection, Diane Ackerman, with astonishing candor, lay
  • The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

    2015·
    ·3.69·468 Ratings
    Award-winning nature writer Diane Ackerman confronts the fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the planet. Humans have "subdued 75 per cent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strun
  • Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

    2010·
    ·3.92·94 Ratings
    "It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose."—Washington PostIn an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to th
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