Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings

xviii, 283 pp. Edited by Bradley P. Dean, introduction by Robert D. Richardson, forward by Gary Paul Nabhan, and illustrations by Abigail Rorer. This work is Thoreau's last important research book which remained unknown to the general public for one hundred and twenty-five years. A description of the ecological succession of plant species through seed dispersal. Thoreau draws on Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.