slow going, dense, essential\n
a nudge to my impish side\n
nostalgia, comfort reading\n
revisited, resumed reading\n
first bought in 1985; 3 succeeding volumes\n
started to re-read<\/p>\n
looking on the shelves for something on rubber\n
the oldest on the shelves on economic botany\n
in answer to the question what’s the most recent I have by Stewart Brand\n
united again with really portentious article and set of ideas\n
a classic pulled off the self and puzzled over, via Elizabeth Kolbert\n
landscape lexicons\n
via a reference in Mabey\n
bought in 2015, just devoured\n
wondering what’s the latest I have on world-systems\n
chapters on world-system analysis\n
Wallerstein’s last, collecting earlier papers\n
answers the question where did Island Biogeography go?\n
\nThis Is Your Mind on Plants<\/b><\/a> (Michael Pollan): \nThe Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable<\/b><\/a> (Amitav Ghosh): \nPhotography: The Definitive Visual History<\/b><\/a> (Tom Ang):<\/p>\n \nThat’s a pretty varied ramble and doesn’t include the various miscellany I’ve tossed into Zotero, which are awaiting examination A bit more than a month since my last post here, and 2 1\/2 yellow pads of notes to oneself and transcriptions of trenchant passages from the still-growing mountain of books I’ve been in and out of as I work on library re-organization and explorations of subjects I’ve defined via explorations past and present. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblio","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
(consulted re: opium)<\/p>\n
NB the explanatory material accompanying each volume\n
an Indian Ocean view<\/p>\n
I’d read anything she wrote\n
concise introduction to the framework and approach\n
long awaited, quite amazing\n
picked up again and starting to re-read\n<\/ul>\n![](\"http:\/\/oook.info\/images\/Zot14xi.png\")
<\/center>…or the Episodes watched, or video clips harvested and in storage, awaiting curation; and the blogstuff encountered that I’ve sent to a select few others, as seemed appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"