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Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods
By Primack, Richard B.
- ISBN
- 9780226682686 9780226062211
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Reviewed on March 15, 2014 | Science and Technology
While Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854) is known as a seminal work for environmentalists, it had never occurred to Primack (biology, Boston Univ.; Essentials of Conservation Biology) that it was also a valuable data set. However, when looking for detailed earlier information related to flora and fauna, Primack was surprised to learn that Thoreau was a meticulous note taker and had in his journal pages upon pages of facts for more than 300 species o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
