Enduring Seeds Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation

Name: Enduring Seeds Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
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ISBN: 9780816522590

ISBN-10: 0816522596

ISBN-13: 9780816522590

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Gary Paul Nabhan, Wendell Berry, Miguel Altieri

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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 10/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 225
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.00" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

He is a prize-winning author & naturalist, lives in Tucson, where he is director of conservation biology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum & cofounder of Native Seeds/Search.



Foreword



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Enduring Seeds--The Sacred Lotus and the Common Bean



A New World Perspective



The Flowering of Diversity



Diversity Lost: The Wet and the Dry Tropics



Fields Infused with Wildness



Invisible Erosion: The Rise and Fall of Native Farming



A Spirit Earthly Enough: Locally Adapted Crops and Persistent Cultures



New and Old Ways of Saving: Botanical Gardens, Seed Banks, Heritage Farms, and Biosphere Reserves



The Local Parables



Wild-Rice: The Endangered, the Sacred, and the Tamed



The Exile and the Holy Anomaly: Wild American Sunflowers



Lost Gourds and Spent Soils on the Shores of Okeechobee



Drowning in a Shallow Gene Pool: The Factory Turkey



Harvest Time: Northern Plains Agricultural Change



Turning Foxholes into Compost Heaps, Shooting Ranges into Shelterbelts


Bibliographic Essays


Literature Cited


Index