| Main Title |
Faith in a seed : the dispersion of seeds, and other late natural history writings / |
| Author |
Thoreau, Henry David,
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| Publisher |
Island Press [for] Shearwater Books, |
| Year Published |
1993 |
| OCLC Number |
26973726 |
| ISBN |
1559631813; 9781559631815; 1559632224; 9781559632225; 9781559631822; 1559631821 |
| Subjects |
Seeds--Dispersal ;
Natural history--New England ;
1806 Anglo-American literature--(NL-LeOCL)077611985 ;
Natuur
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Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
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Checkout
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| EJBM |
QK929.T48 1993 |
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Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
05/27/2014 |
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| Collation |
xviii, 283 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-270) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
The dispersion of seeds -- Wild fruits -- Weeds and grasses -- Forest trees. Thoreau's last important research and writing projects, published here for the first time, draws on Darwin's theory of natural selection to describe plant ecology. |
