Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings
Washington, DC: Island Press / Shearwater Books, 1993. Rorer, Abigail. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #2334496
ISBN: 1559631813
First edition. An excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xviii, 283 pp. Edited by Bradley P. Dean, introduction by Robert D. Richardson, forward by Gary Paul Nabhan, and illustrations by Abigail Rorer. This work is Thoreau's last important research book which remained unknown to the general public for one hundred and twenty-five years. A description of the ecological succession of plant species through seed dispersal. Thoreau draws on Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.
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