Plants Toxic to the Skin

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Over-two thirds of the U.S. population is allergic to poison oak, poison ivy, or a related plant. These and many other common plants in our homes, fields, and gardens are irritants that cause misery to many. But surprisingly, there has never been a general guide to help raise awareness of them--and to help avoid them. This new book reviews the history, occurrence, classification, toxicity, and health aspects of all the major allergenic and irritant species.

Molecular Genetics of Host-Specific Toxins in Plant Disease (Developments in Plant Pathology)

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Molecular Genetics of Host-Specific Toxins in Plant Disease (Developments in Plant Pathology)

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ASIN: 0792349814

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The Tottori International Symposia on Host-Specific Toxins were established in 1988 by the Tottori University Faculty of Agriculture to provide an interdisciplinary forum for scientists working in rapidly emerging areas of studies of plant-fungal pathogen interactions, especially involving host-specific toxins and related pathogenicity factors.
Molecular Genetics of Host-Specific Toxins in Plant Disease is the proceedings of the 3rd international symposium on host-specific toxins held in August 1997 in Tottori, Japan. Up-to-date material is presented in rapidly developing research areas such as new toxins, fungal genes for toxin biosynthesis, evolution of pathogenic strategies, toxin actions on plants, toxin receptors, signal transduction, oxidative burst, mechanisms of sensing, penetration and host degradation, apoptosis triggered by toxins, and plant genes for detoxification. This information has given researchers penetrating insights into various aspects in the field.
Molecular Genetics of Host-Specific Toxins in Plant Disease will be a valuable up-to-date reference for researchers and students in the areas of plant pathology, plant protection, plant physiology and molecular biology, fungal molecular genetics, and plant breeding and biotechnology.

Toxic Plants And Other Natural Toxicants

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Toxic Plants And Other Natural Toxicants
Tam, Ed. Garland
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ASIN: 0851992633

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Important concerns in human health and medicine, toxic plants and other natural toxicants are also responsible for significant losses in animals and crops. This book collects both practical and fundamental research from botanists, chemists, biochemists, agricultural scientists, veterinarians and physicians and advice from regulatory bodies. It covers all aspects of poisonous plants, mycotoxicoses and herbal intoxications. Chapters discuss adverse effects, including fatalities, reduced or failed reproduction, and reduced productivity; methods of detection, isolation and identification of toxic chemical compounds; and the biochemistry of the plant-associated toxins and their mechanisms of action. The chapters also cover protocols for management or eradication, immunization programs, behavior modification, withholding periods for metabolic detoxification, regulatory advice concerning human usage of natural products, advice concerning toxin-residue in agricultural produce, and the development of non-toxic strains of plants for use as fodder.

Toxicology Of The Eye 2v.set: EFFECTS ON THE EYES & VISUAL SYSTEM

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Toxicology Of The Eye 2v.set: EFFECTS ON THE EYES & VISUAL SYSTEM
W. MORTON GRANT
Manufacturer: THOMAS, CHARLES C, PUBLISHER
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Toxin-Related Diseases: Poisons Originating from Plants, Animals and Spoilage

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Toxin-Related Diseases: Poisons Originating from Plants, Animals and Spoilage
Anthony T. Tu
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ASIN: 1881570150

Toxins in Plant Disease (Physiological Ecology)

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Toxins in Plant Disease (Physiological Ecology)

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ASIN: 0122250508

Toxins in Plant Disease Development and Evolving Biotechnology

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Toxins in Plant Disease Development and Evolving Biotechnology

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Plant Toxin Analysis (Molecular Methods of Plant Analysis)

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Plant Toxin Analysis (Molecular Methods of Plant Analysis)

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ASIN: 3540523286

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Chemical defence by means of toxins poisonous to other organisms, be they animals or plants, is widespread amongst the plant kingdom - including microorganisms as well. This book embraces the analysis of a wide range of plant toxins and this fills a gap in the plant pathology and ecological biochemistry fields. The topics covered include toxic extracellular enzymes, host selective toxins, elicitors, phototoxins, aflatoxins, mycotoxins, and ecotoxic substance tests by pollen germination and growth. The analytical procedures, which are used to evaluate the toxins, are covered in such a way that the reader is able to carry them out mostly solely by following the detailed descriptions.

Injuries to plants caused by insect toxins (Pineapple Producers Cooperative Association. Pineapple Research Institute of Hawaii. Miscellaneous papers)

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Injuries to plants caused by insect toxins (Pineapple Producers Cooperative Association. Pineapple Research Institute of Hawaii. Miscellaneous papers)
Walter Carter
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Travel in China is challenging, but the reward for the tourist who understands and accepts this challenge is one of the most exciting and memorable experiences of a lifetime. The Traveler's China Companion offers the opportunity to touch the soul of China and its teeming millions - not only its grand cultural treasures and relics but also the simplicity, generosity and hospitality of ordinary Chinese people.

There are lavish color photographs that take you to your destination while you are still planning. This guide is set up in an easy-to-use format. The clearly structured entries on where to stay, eat, and how to get there, guide you directly to the things you want to see, allowing you to spend less time with your nose in your guidebook and more time enjoying your destination.

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Outstanding and up-to-date.......1999-07-29

I just returned after 6 weeks in China and I heartily recommend this book which I took with me. It has excellent descriptions of places, tourist attractions, accommodations and travel tips. It also has some very nice pictures and a nice little section on Chinese history that puts things into perspective. Most importantly, give the rate at which things are changing in China I was impressed with how current the information in it is. Definitely a strong recommendation in its favor!

The superior China guide, the writers deserve an award!.......1999-01-24

I just returned from my 1st trip to China and was thoroughly impressed with your superb Traveler's CHINA Companion". Excellent writing throughout--the writers deserve an award! Although the Lonely Planet guide is extremely popular with most other travellers, after extensive reading, I believe your guide to be superior to all others!

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Who is Osama bin Ladenthe only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war? What drives him and those he leads to hate a West that helped enrich and arm them? Bin Ladens name has been linked to a number of incidents that have cost Americans their lives, including the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and the destruction of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Now, he is linked to the catastrophic assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Here is a comprehensive account of the rise of bin Laden. In meticulous detail, world-renowned terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky uncovers the events in bin Ladens life that turned the once-promising engineering student into a cold-blooded leader of radical Islam. In the process, Bodansky reveals a chilling story that is as current as todays headlines but as ancient as the Crusades, a story that transcends bin Laden and any other single man. This book is a sobering wake-up call.

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Great background info on Morgans

Excellent Book

The Complete Morgan Horse
Jeanne Mellin
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
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Justin Morgan Had A Horse

ASIN: 0525935533

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Great background info on Morgans.......2003-08-08

This book has a very informative description of the breed, and the most thorough description of the early bloodlines that I have ever seen in print. An absolute must for Morgan lovers, especially if you are an amateur thinking about getting into breeding, or someone with your first Morgan who just wants to know more about the breed origins and general purpose/use. The only thing I did not like about this book is that it does not go far enough! Most of today's living Morgans are far enough removed from these famous horses of the past that it is difficult to figure out (so to speak!) which horses in the book your own horse(s) descend from. It is nonetheless an informative book and a good read, as well.

Excellent Book.......1999-11-11

I believe this book to be one of the most excellent and informative books on the Morgan horse. If you love Morgans or just love horses and want to learn more about this Spectacular breed, then get this book!

Natural Healing for Horses: The Complete Guide to Preventative Health Care and Natural Remedies

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Natural Healing for Horses: The Complete Guide to Preventative Health Care and Natural Remedies
Jenny Morgan , and Jan Agar Bergeron
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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ASIN: 1580174027

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More and more horse owners are turning to alternative therapies to enhance the health and well-being of their equine companions. Many believe - as Jenny Morgan does - that horses kept in a healthy, all-natural environment have fewer health problems. Thus, this essential reference for horse owners begins with preventive care. Natural Healing for Horses teaches how to know a horse thoroughly, from forelock to fetlock; understand a horse's moods and immediately recognize the slightest change in appearance or behavior; build a stabling system that has proper space, drainage, and safety; select the ideal pasture location; and develop affordable and natural routines for exercising, feeding, watering, and grooming horses kept in a stable or at pasture.

The second section of this book addresses specific health issues and suggested therapies, including herbal and homeopathic treatments, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, and aromatherapy, as well as standard veterinary treatments.

Whatever the need, Morgan provides all the information necessary to choose the right natural treatment to improve a horse's general well-being or solve particular health problems.

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The Complete Morgan Horse
Jeanne Mellin
Manufacturer: American Morgan Horse Association
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PMNOSI

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Derived from two earlier books by the author, The Morgan Horse and The Morgan Horse Handbook.

Lippitt directory: A complete listing of all Morgans defined by the Lippitt foundation stock as Lippitt Morgans, from 1890 to 1975, together with 6 generation ... of Justin Morgan's blood for all horses

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Lippitt directory: A complete listing of all Morgans defined by the Lippitt foundation stock as Lippitt Morgans, from 1890 to 1975, together with 6 generation ... of Justin Morgan's blood for all horses
Kenneth Alderman Telford
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Great Book of Fairy Patterns

Good Rescource for crafters

fun, and more fun!

Good information, but falls short.

Great Book of Fairy Paterns:The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artista and Craftspeople

Great Book of Fairy Patterns: The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artists and Craftspeople
Lora S. Irish
Manufacturer: Fox Chapel Publishing
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Drawing Faeries: A Believer's Guide

ASIN: 1565232259

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The history, mythology, and composition of angels, cherubs, fairies, pixies, and sprites are detailed in this handbook of fairy patterns. More than 72 fairy patterns for all mediums are featured, including dragonfly, sugar plum, and woodland fairies. The physical features of fairies and fairy backgrounds are examined in depth, including instructions for face and body painting that apply to all fairy re-creations. Comprehensive descriptions of different types of fairies accompanied by their folk histories provide a useful context for all fairy enthusiasts.

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Great Book of Fairy Patterns.......2007-09-06

Great book for anyone who likes to draw or make fairies. Alot of great ideas and patterns.

Good Rescource for crafters.......2007-05-07

In all fairness, this book is a very good rescource for craft painters who paint on wood, slate, etc. And it is also a very nice rescource for anyone who wants to paint a room/ make stencils to decorate and doesn't know how to draw them freehand. Many of the drawings are not perfect (the sewing fairy has her wing drawn in front of her hair on one side)and I would not rely on the fanciful descriptions about the fairies(to me anyway)they are mostly filler to get the feel for what you are working on. (If you want to learn about real fairy folklore I would suggest getting "Fairies" By Brian Froud or looking for a title on Irish fairy tales.) I had expected a much thinner book at first, but it turned out to be more than that. It is also a good source of inspiration for more accomplished artists wanting some new ideas.

fun, and more fun!.......2007-01-05

this is a great idea book for anyone interested in fairies. The drawings are really great. My teenaged grandchildren have been having a lot of fun with this book. One of them has her room decorated in fairies, so she's going to put some of them on her wall.

Good information, but falls short........2006-12-28

The strongest part of this book is the wing patterns and what kind of fairies have these wings. Not only does it tell the size the wings should be, but also where and how to place them. There are also some nice references to angels. My favoriite part of the book is how to place different kinds of fairies in a scene, however, I would have liked to see more information devoted to this. I must agree with a previous reviewer that the faces are ugly. Obviously the artist has a problem with drawing faces. I knew this when I bought the book and can draw my own faces. The small amount of colored pictures in the book are not very advanced. The book does well in stretching one's imagination in costuming and poses. My personal objection is the author's use of the word patterns when copyright prevents one from using it as patterns unless you know how to break it up and mix and match. If one can do that, then it is useful.

Great Book of Fairy Paterns:The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Artista and Craftspeople.......2006-09-04

They were not kidding... Ultimate and incredible, this source book is the best I have seen. I am a watercolour artists and these Patterns are easy to follow you can get as complicated or as simple as you like with each design, outline to high detail.
I love it, would recommend it with out hesitation to anyone from beginner artist to master.

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Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the benefits derived from gardening, namely enjoyment, exercise, and nutrition.

Book retailers are well aware that the trend in gardening books is to regional titles that provide credible information on the plants that perform well in specific regions.

The Virginia Fruit & Vegetable Book is written by the highly popular gardening experts Walter Reeves and Felder Rushing.

Contains advice for plant fruits, vegetables, and herbs. With 60 featured plants, the authors provide characteristics of available varieties, planting and maintenance advice, as well as recipes for dishes from the garden.

An Oak Spring Pomona : A Selection of the Rare Books on Fruit in the Oak Spring Garden Library

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Sandra Raphael
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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ASIN: 0300049366

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An Oak Spring Pomona is the second of a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other materials in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection formed by Rachel Lambert Mellon. The Pomona describes one hundred books and manuscripts about fruit, with illustrations taken from some of the most beautiful books on the subject, as well as from original drawings and paintings. The earliest book described is Bussato's Giardino di Agricoltura of 1592, the latest The Herefordshire Pomona, an encyclopaedia of apples and pears from the 1870s. In between there is a gathering of fruit books large and small: La Quintinie's Instruction pour les Jardins fruitiers, first published in 1690 and translated by John Evelyn three years later, Duhamel's Traite des Arbres fruitiers, and nearly fifty others from France and Britain, among them Brookshaw's giant Pomona Britannica and a handful of pocket-sized books of directions for grafting and cultivating the best varieties available. Sections on fruit-growing in these two countries are followed by others on fruit elsewhere in Europe (including the books of Knoop, Gallesio, and Bivort) and fruit in America (with Downing, Hovey, and several sets of nuserymen's plates), with chapters on citrus fruit (beginning with Ferrari's Hesperides of 1646), apples and pears, peaches and soft fruit, grapes, melons, and tropical fruit. Each description makes clear the background of the book concerned and its relationship to others, while a generous number of illustrations in color and black and white help to give the impression of their contents. Many of the Oak Spring copies have particularly interesting associations, recorded in inscriptions, bookplates, or binding details, all of which are described.

In these descriptive, discursive catalogues a strictly chronological arrangement has been abandoned in favor of grouping books related by their subject, in order to emphasize their connections. Although there is a brief bibliographical summary of each book, the background essays give the Oak Spring catalogues a historical setting that should appeal not only to book collectors and librarians, but also to garden historians, botanists, and all those interested in fruit cultivation and gardening in general.

1990, 320 pages. 9-5/8 x 11-1/4 inches, including 170 illustrations, over 70 of them in color.

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An intimate family memoir about the power of love in the face of adversity: the passionate pursuit of art-and the brave art of living simply-by four generations of a fiercely independent Southern family.

Almost a century ago, a New Orleans society woman vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on bourgeois life and abetted by her skeptical husband-a grain merchant-she bought twenty-eight acres of woodland on the Mississippi Sound. Beside a sleepy bayou, in the shade of towering pines and magnolias, she opened an art colony, one of the first of its kind in the South.

Her passion for art pulled the family through the hard times of the Depression and endured into the present. Her oldest son, Peter Anderson, founded Shearwater Pottery and, yearning "to make Shearwater synonymous with perfection," drew the entire family into his adventure. His brothers, "Mac" and Walter, made strange, wonderful pieces, though Walter Anderson eventually left his wife, his children, and the pottery to search for his own Nirvana and to capture, in writing and in watercolors, the wildlife of the Mississippi Coast.

Drawn by the exquisite work of Shearwater Pottery, the authors discover that painting, poetry, and storytelling-much of it by strong, unforgettable women-are still an essential part of the family's daily life. Intimate diaries, letters, and poems lead the reader into a stormy, passionate, sometimes heartbreaking past. Meticulously researched and compassionately written, Dreaming in Clay gathers one family's eternal legacy of wisdom and beauty: the healing power of art, the consolations of writing and of memory, and the spiritual treasures given to us-if we care to receive them-by the natural world.

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Wonderful Story of Art in America.......2001-09-19

This is a great book telling a wonderful story of art in America. This is what American art is all about and how this little pottery enterprise made its mark on the art world. You will enjoy this book very much.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 10/22/00.......2000-10-31

THE STORY OF A FAMILY'S DEDICATION TO EACH OTHER AND THEIR ART

By Lynna Williams.

Maria Estrella Iglesias, a collector of American art pottery, was in an antiques mall near Nashville when she saw a pottery vase glazed "an extraordinary blue." Seeing it across the cluttered room "was like catching a glimpse of the ocean," and when she turned it over she found a name and mark unfamiliar to her. Iglesias couldn't know it then, but that chance introduction to Shearwater Pottery would open up an extraordinary world apart: the personal and public history of the Andersons of Ocean Springs, Miss.

Some readers may already be familiar with the brilliant work of painter, printmaker and muralist Walter Inglis Anderson without knowing the story of his role in the pottery, and the broader story of his family's passionate commitment to art as a way of life.

Four generations of Andersons have created Shearwater's art and, while cordially disliking the term "artist," have nurtured potters, painters, sculptors, poets and writers, from the Depression to the present. The story Iglesias and her husband, Vanderbilt professor Christopher Maurer, tell in "Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi" has passion and torment sufficient for grand opera, all borne of a relentless dedication to the making of art. It would be a remarkable story in any time. In the America of the 21st Century, when art is so often viewed as extraneous in our daily lives, or as just another commodity to be consumed, it takes on a special, almost electric, resonance. Maurer and Iglesias' book, which starts with an account of their own "falling into" the Shearwater world, is a compelling account of lives in which art, for better and worse, is as basic a necessity of life as air and water.

It began with a marriage, 100 years ago. After a 12-year courtship, George Walter Anderson, a prosperous grain dealer, wed Annette McConnell, a lawyer's daughter educated at Newcomb College in New Orleans, a central force in the post-Civil War resurgence of arts and crafts in the South. By 1907 there were three sons: Peter, Walter Inglis and James McConnell.

From the beginning, their artistic mother wanted art to wash over them, to be fundamental to who they were. Their businessman father dreamed of "Anderson, Incorporated," the family functioning as a unit. "Dreaming in Clay" documents how both parents' wishes shaped their sons' lives, from their free spirits and work ethic, to their specialized educations, to their vocations, to their choice of wives for whom love and art were one, inextricably linked. As in fairy tales, both wishes-for art, for a family enterprise-came true, but not at all in simple, happily-ever-after fashion.

As an enterprise, Shearwater Pottery began after the family's move in 1918 from New Orleans to Ocean Springs, a place where the beauty and wildness of the natural world led inevitably to the making of art. Oldest son Peter was 22 or 23 when he built a kiln in the side of a hill. One of the pleasures of "Dreaming in Clay" is its careful record of what was involved in the making of modern pottery, and an artistic community, in a "sleepy coastal town that had never had more than a nodding acquaintance with art."

Slowly, amid Peter's ongoing education with established artists intrigued with the experiment at Ocean Springs, the family worked to perfect the technical aspects of producing pottery: the right kiln, the right glazes, the right touch with wheel and hand-thrown pots. The Andersons were getting a business on its feet, but artistic concerns were paramount from the beginning: More than 2,500 pots considered unacceptable -- sometimes entire kilnloads -- were intentionally destroyed before Shearwater opened to the public. The name for the pottery came from a book about birds but was used in tribute to Mississippi's black skimmers, which shear the surface of the water to scoop up small fish. The name reflects what has become Shearwater's enduring connection to the Mississippi landscape.

In writing "Dreaming in Clay," Maurer and Iglesias were given access to the family's archive, and it is in the letters of the day that the family's struggles and triumphs come most vividly alive. Nowhere is that more true than in the stories of the two oldest sons, Peter and Walter Inglis (called Bobby by his family), and the women they would marry, sisters Patricia and Agnes "Sissy" Grinstead. Pat was "transported" the moment she saw the handsome Peter Anderson, and was immediately adopted as a "true" member of the clan. Bob's courtship of Sissy was long and arduous, and drew him into producing decorative pottery and figurines at Shearwater as a livelihood, a way of showing that he, too, could support a wife. The two were married in 1933; four years later, Bob had a devastating mental breakdown. Not long after, Peter, too, was hospitalized, suffering from depression. Peter's illness was more easily treated; Bob's involved a more prolonged hospital stay, and the latest, and most extreme, of psychiatric treatments. When he returned home to Ocean Springs he would find his art again but never be a part of the family in the same way as before.

The book's account of Sissy and Pat Anderson is fascinating in its picture of women determined that both love and art would survive. The resolve of all the family to see each other through, no matter what, helps make "Dreaming in Clay" a highly readable and remarkable testament. We're able to appreciate the survival of Shearwater Pottery into the 21st Century in part because it is also the continuation of a family that has lived, and lived through, its passion for art.

Dreaming in Clay -- A Dream of a Book!.......2000-10-27

I wrote the 1st review of this book. There are 3 typo's in the second paragraph. It should read "Shearwater POTTERY not potter, (2) struggled not strugged, and (3) their ART not air. Thanks for letting me make these corrections.

Dreaming in Clay --- A Dream of a Book!.......2000-10-25

It is my privilege to be the first person to review DREAMING IN CLAY. I'm sure many others will find it a great book to read and review.

This wonderful book presents the life of a master potter, Peter Anderson, his work, his immediate and extended family, and the evolution of Shearwater Potter in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. It is a book about transformation and affirmation of a family who has strugged and triumphed and the interconnections of the Anderson family, their air, and their love of nature and simplicity.

The book is thoughtful and contains information, facts, and anecdotes that inspire one to travel to this small southern town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast to experience the magical feeling of Shearwater Pottery.

The authors were clearly diligent in their research and fluid in their writing. The book is filled with fascinating materials that clearly describe the life of this master potter, his talented children, brothers, family, and their reception in the world of art. The authors have written in a manner that makes this unique family come alive to the reader.

The book is also unique in the fact that it not only speaks of the great work of Peter and his brothers, Walter and Mac, but also, it is the story of the strong Anderson women who are there to support their art and life dedications.

It is a fantastic book. The memoir left me with the sense of "tell me more". It is a must read!

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Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater

Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GWZ7IW

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This volume prints for the first time the 'perambulation' of Cumberland compiled by the lawyer, Thomas Denton, for Sir John Lowther of Lowther in 1687-8. Denton's manuscript provides the most detailed surviving description of the county in the seventeenth century. Taking the methods of earlier antiquaries as a framework, and incorporating much of the text of the history of Cumberland written c.1603 by John Denton, the perambulation includes a wealth of contemporary detail for almost every parish and township in the county, including particulars of land tenure, valuations of estates, population estimates, descriptions of buildings and the histories of landed families. Appended to the description of Cumberland, are a perambulation of Westmorland, and the texts of two important tracts, the genealogy of the Clifford family and a treatise on customary tenantright. The volume is rounded off by descriptions of the Isle of Man and Ireland, taken in part from Camden's Britannia but including detailed topographical accounts of Man and Dublin, based on Denton's own observations. ANGUS J.L. WINCHESTER is Senior Lecturer in History, Lancaster University.

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