bringing to life the science of plants by revealing how their worlds are intricately entwined with our own history
a book of ancient methods of transformation transposed into a modern key
or coming up with cringe-worthy puns
From the wilds of rural Somersetshire to the glittering ballrooms of early-Victorian London
high-spirited and so distinctly Caravan Palace
Time Shelter -- Georgi Gospodinov, Paperback Fred Newman bringing to life the science"At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. "In the mid seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ." But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a "vagrant in time" who has distanced his life from