Enduring Seeds : Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation by Nabhan, Gary Paul - 1989

Some rubbing & cover soil. Good. ills. Native American Agriculture North Point Press San Francisco 1989 orig. boards 24x15cm, xxiii, 225 pp. Contents: Prologue: Enduring Seeds - The Sacred Lotus and the Common Bean; A New World Perspective: "The Wet and the Dry Tropics"; Fields Infused with Wildness; Invisible Erosion: "The Rise and Fall of Native Farming"; A Spirit Earthly Enough: "Locally Adapteed Crops and Persistent Cultures"; New and Old Ways of Saving: "Botanical Gardens", "Seed Banks, Heritage Farms, and Biosphere Reserves"; The Local Parables: "The Endangered, the Sacred, and the Tamed"; The Exile and the Holy Anomaly: "Wild American Sunflawers"; Lost Gourds and Spent Soils on the Shores of Okeechobee; Drowning in a Shallow Gene Pool: "THe Factory Turkey"; Harvest Time: " Northen Plains Agricultural Change"; Turning Foxholes into Compost Heaps, Shooting Ranges into Shelterbelts.