Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings

Henry David Thoreau. Island Press, $29.95 (301pp) ISBN 978-1-55963-182-2

Dean, the editor of the Thoreau Society Bulletin, has culled essays from the notebooks Thoreau left behind at his death, works that illuminate the scientific side of the pioneering naturalist. (Apr.)

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