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Carlton Press, a Hearthstone Book [Published Date: 1982]. Hardcover, 79 pp. No other printings listed. Good in good dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight.Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing to edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. [from front jacket flap] The Gardens of Eden and Man, by Laval S. Morris, is a thought-provoking, revolutionary examination and evaluation of archaeological and sociological data as they apply to perhaps the most important of contemporary problems - starvation in an increasingly populated world of rapidly diminishing resources. The author, a distinguished educator and botanist, succinctly defines the problem and offers a number of cogent observations that point the way towards a practical solution. Moreover, in tracing the development of his theories, Mr. Morris gives the reader a great deal of historical as well as botanical information, including some revealing insights about earlier botanists and their surprisingly efficacious discoveries and contributions. Most significant of all, however, is the author's clarion call for a systematic and unified attempt, on the international level, to resolve our problems through the application of available scientific knowledge. The Gardens of Eden and Man is a highly recommended work for scientist and layman alike. It is an intelligent investigation by a botanist and humanitarian whose observations and recommendations address an issue with which we must all be concerned - our very survival. Laval S. Morris (1899 - 1983) was a landscape architect and educator who founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at Brigham Young University and later established and chaired the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University from 1939 until his retirement in 1965. His private practice included significant projects for the U.S. Army, Air Force, and various community developments in Utah.