{"product_id":"weeds-in-defense-of-natures-most-unloved-plants-9780062065469","title":"Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants","description":"\u003cp\u003e\" 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Richard Holmes, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Wonder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this fascinating, richly detailed book, Richard Mabey gives weeds their full due.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Carl Zimmer, author of \u003cem\u003eEvolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Mabey, Great Britain's Britain's \"greatest living nature writer\" (\u003cem\u003eLondon Times\u003c\/em\u003e), has written a stirring and passionate defense of nature's most unloved plants. \u003cem\u003eWeeds\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eRats\u003c\/em\u003e, Amy Stewart's \u003cem\u003eWicked Plants\u003c\/em\u003e, and to armchair gardeners, horticulturists, green-thumbs, all those who stop to smell the flowers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMabey, Richard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRichard Mabey is widely hailed as Britain's fore-most nature writer. He is the author of the groundbreaking book on foraging in the countryside \u003cem\u003eFood for Free\u003c\/em\u003e and the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Book of Nature Writing\u003c\/em\u003e. He has narrated and produced popular BBC television and radio series, and has written for the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, and other publications. He lives in Norfolk, England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641648517394,"sku":"9780062065469","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_db068bc5-19e1-4622-8642-0995e4fa49a9.jpg?v=1733028023","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/weeds-in-defense-of-natures-most-unloved-plants-9780062065469","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}