Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Book Overview

A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollination" engenders new forms of expression that are essential to discovery. In this highly readable book, he tells four stories to illustrate this idea. In the first, coping with color blindness in art class leads to his career as a scientist; in the second, ancient American Indian songs, when translated,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571312706
• ISBN13: 9781571312709
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.6"