Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062065452)

" A] witty and beguiling meditation on weeds and their wily ways....You 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.

Author: Richard Mabey
ISBN-10: 0062065459
ISBN-13: 9780062065452
Publisher: Ecco Press
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2011
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.63h x 5.80w x 1.14d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/18/2011
Library Journal 06/01/2011 pg. 112
Booklist 06/01/2011 pg. 15
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2011
New York Times Book Review 07/31/2011 pg. 7
New York Times Book Review 08/07/2011 pg. 22
Shelf Awareness 06/28/2011