{"product_id":"9780241996881","title":"Dispersals : On Plants, Borders and Belonging","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Jessica J. Lee\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 13 March 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 21mm | 204g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024‘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 AbandonmentBorn in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jessica J. Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56261152112965,"sku":"9780241996881","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9780241996881.jpg?v=1763037682","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9780241996881","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}