Ann McClellan Livres

Exploring the cultural significance of cherry blossoms, this book delves into their historical cultivation in Japan over the past millennium and their symbolic role in U.S.-Japan relations. It highlights the festivals that celebrate these trees in cities like Tokyo and Washington, D.C., showcasing their beauty as a sign of spring and romance. Additionally, the book provides a guide to notable cherry blossom collections and viewing locations across both nations, emphasizing their importance in diplomacy and landscape enhancement.

Celebrating the National Cherry Blossom Festival, this illustrated book showcases the enchanting beauty and ephemeral nature of spring. Award-winning photographer Ron Blunt captures the festival's essence, offering readers a visual experience of the vibrant cherry blossoms that attract millions to the nation's capital each year. This keepsake serves as a lasting memory for visitors, encapsulating the splendor and joy of the blooming season through stunning photography.

This book focuses on recurring representations of women intellectual characters and their relationship to (and reactions against) both matrilineal and patriarchal traditions in fiction writing and academia, arguing that 20th century British women writers work through their anxieties regarding gender and scholarship through their use (or misuse) of convention, phrasing, and vexed characters.

From the collection of the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, D.C.