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

This major literary event contains a hitherto unpublished work—The Dispersion of Seeds—one of Thoreau's last important research and writing projects, and places him among the first American scientists to understand the significance of Darwin's theory of Natural Selection.

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adult
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medium · 301 pages

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