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One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th Century. In The Behavior of the Hawkweeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves, in Birds with No Feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist

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One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th Century. In The Behavior of the Hawkweeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves, in Birds with No Feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist with consolation for his personal misfortunes, while in The English Pupil, Linnaeus, who brought order to botany, must deal with the mental disorder of his advancing age. By the author of The Middle Kingdom.

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Publisher: New York : - W W Norton & Co

Pages: 254

ISBN: 039303853X, 9780393316001

Language: English

Contents: The behavior of the hawkweeds
The English pupil
The littoral zone
Rare bird
Soroche
Birds with no feet
The Marburg sisters
Ship fever.

Statement of responsibility: Andrea Barrett

Physical description: 254 p. ; 22 cm.

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1996 National Book Award - Fiction

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