In a Patch of Fireweed A Biologist's Life in the Field

Name: In a Patch of Fireweed A Biologist's Life in the Field
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ISBN: 9780674445512

ISBN-10: 0674445511

ISBN-13: 9780674445512

Edition: 1984

Authors: Bernd Heinrich

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Why would a grown man chase hornets with a thermometer, paint whirligig beetles bright red, or track elephants through the night to fill trash bags with their prodigious droppings? Some might say--to advance science. Heinrich says--because it's fun. Bernd Heinrich, author of the much acclaimed Bumblebee Economics, has been playing in the wilds of one continent or another all his life. In the process, he has become one of the world's foremost physiological ecologists. With In a Patch of Fireweed, he will undoubtedly become one of our foremost writers of popular science. Part autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology, In a Patch of Fireweed is an endlessly fascinating…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Bernd Heinrich is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Vermont. He has written several memoirs of his life in science and nature, including One Manï¿½e(tm)s Owl, and Ravens in Winter. Bumblebee Economics was twice a nominee for the American Book Award in Science, and A Year in the Maine Woods won the 1995 Rutstrum Authorsï¿½e(tm) Award for Literary Excellence.




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