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

By Bernd Heinrich

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674445481
• ISBN13: 9780674445482
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

As always a great read

As with all of Mr. Heinrichs other pieces of work, this book is very reaable, enjoyable and deserves a place on the shelf of any naturalist

Great Read

As with all Bernd Heinrich's books it was a pleasure to read. Any one interested in nature observation should read this. It is not written on a "biology major" level and that is what is great about it. It will help you to look at nature a little different to see why some things are the way they are.

Heinrich turns nature's complexities into exciting reading

I was required to read excerpts from this book for a course I was taking, but found myself reading (even re-reading) the text for pleasure. Though the material may be, at times, a little too technical for the average reader, Heinrich, nonetheless brings the complexities of the natural realm to his readers in such a manner that draws the reader into the excitement of his own research and discoveries. The text is scientific, yet humorous whenever possible, and always insightful. Heinrich is a brilliant biologist with no less skill as a writer.