Groundwork: A Gardener's Ecology

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Summary: These essays insightfully bring new texture to the familiar.
Review: These essays concern the science of the hum-drum features of our daily landscapes, but without authorial pyrotechnics Swain always manages to find something new to call to our attention. This collection pulls off a rare trick for science writing--it manages to inform without condescending or confusing.Like the prose, Abigail Rorer's illustrations are sturdy and nuanced.