Here is an Enchanted Mineralogy thanks to the book by Patricia Desmortiers and Lola-Mona Lugand Hoëbeke Editions.
Most of the time mineralogy books have a scientific approach. However, this book Enchanted Mineralogy He takes a different path. Very accessible, it blends scientific data, geography, and poetry. To draw attention to gems, this book offers 40 voyages to 40 remarkable stones. This other perspective is a true odyssey, like a path to follow. To understand that the stones are the silent witnesses of creation. Similarly, the simple observation of minerals can then become an enchanting moment. For this is the path we are offered. And without forgetting the certainties of science, the book is divided into chapters to evoke emotion.
As the author emphasizes: «The stone is a natural talisman that comes from the depths and touches other depths, those of our unconsciousness…»
© Lola-Mona Lugand
Overall, Minéralogie Enchantée offers a rare moment, a reading to simply take the time to marvel.
About the Hoëbeke Editions:
The Éditions Hoëbeke were founded in 1984. They immediately engaged the graphic designer Massin, who would design most of the house’s books and give the whole series a sense of permanence. Their first book was dedicated to the cartoonist Peynet, author of In love. It will be a best-seller, just as some years later the books by Samivel, Doisneau or Pierre Dubois were.
Shaking up categories, exploring the past as well as the present, editing but also creating, renewing genres, combining expressions, telling the story in a different way, remaining free, surprising you, renewing your pleasures, making you travel, surprising you and reminding you, hopefully, of some childhood joys.
