HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASLE-UKI BOOK PRIZE 2025
LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025
'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 Islands of Abandonment
Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.
In Dispersals, 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.
'Contemplative, elegant' New Statesman
'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 Small Bodies of Water
| ISBN: | 9780241996881 |
| Publication date: | 13th March 2025 |
| Author: | Jessica J. Lee |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Primary Genre | Biographies & Autobiographies |
| Other Genres: |
HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASLE-UKI BOOK PRIZE 2025
LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025
'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 Islands of Abandonment
Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.
In Dispersals, 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.
'Contemplative, elegant' New Statesman
'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 Small Bodies of Water
Dispersals features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural history, Botany and plant sciences, Memoirs, Literary essays, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Social and ethical issues, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences, History: specific events and topics, History, History and Archaeology, Biology, life sciences, Mathematics and Science
Dispersals is available in Paperback, Hardback
Dispersals was written by Jessica J. Lee and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Dispersals has 288 pages
£9.89
