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Title: Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants

Author: Richard Mabey

ISBN: 9780062065452

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 2011

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: Illustrated

Number of Pages: 336

Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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“[A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily will never look at a weed, or flourish a garden fork, in the same way again.”
–Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder

“In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due.”
–Carl Zimmer, author of Evolution

Richard Mabey, Great Britain’s Britain’s “greatest living nature writer” (London Times), has written a stirring and passionate defense of nature’s most unloved plants. Weeds is a fascinating, eye-opening, and vastly entertaining appreciation of the natural world’s unappreciated wildflowers that will appeal to fans of David Attenborough, Robert Sullivan’s Rats, Amy Stewart’s Wicked Plants, and to armchair gardeners, horticulturists, green-thumbs, all those who stop to smell the flowers.