Includes the text of the "final, 1911 fourth edition of The Nature-Study Idea in its entirety, respecting all the changes Bailey made over the course of four editions to one of his most important books"--page xii of ECIP galley.
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University and Chair of the Commission on Country Life under President Theodore Roosevelt. A pioneer in modern horticulture and environmental philosophy, he was the author of more than seventy books. John Linstrom is Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality at the Climate Museum. He coedited The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion.
