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

Heinrich, Bernd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674445481 ISBN 13: 9780674445482

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1984

Synopsis

One of the world's foremost physiological ecologists discusses his life and work as a scientist and recounts in detail years spent in research in the wild in many parts of the world

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From the Back Cover:

Part autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology, 'In a Patch of Fireweed' is an endlessly fascinating account of a scientist's life and work. For the author, it is an opportunity to report not just his results but the curiosity, humor, error, passion, and competitiveness that feed the process of discovery.

About the Author:

Bernd Heinrich is Professor of Biology at the University of Vermont. He has written several memoirs of his life in science and nature, including One Man'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 Authors' Award for Literary Excellence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0674445481
• ISBN 13: 9780674445482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208