Gibbons Publishes Stalking the Wild Asparagus
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Science, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Polynesia, Oceania, United States, Hawaii
- Date: 1962
Article abstract: Euell Gibbons rewrote his unsuccessful and unsold novel about foraging, producing a best-selling field guide to edible plants.
Summary of Event
In 1962, when the David McKay Company published yet another nature guide with the whimsical title Stalking the Wild Asparagus, reviewers greeted it with praise but could not have anticipated the effect the book would have on American culture"and on the author’s career. By the end of the decade, when the counterculture’s appeal to health food and simple living began to impact the...
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