Nature’s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas

Description

Author: Worster, Donald  (1941-)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Pub Date: 1985 (First paperback printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  1985 edition.  Sun fading to spine and front and rear spine edges.  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Worster’s first book.  A history of the idea of “ecology”, beginning in the 18th century.  Portraits of Linnaeus, Darwin, Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and others, and how they shaped out ideas of our place in nature.  If nothing else, the idea of “ecology” has given us an idea of the limits of the planet and its population.