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Series
American seasons volume second season
Language
English
Description
This book forms the third part in author Edwin Way Teale's popular series of four books on The American Seasons.Following on from North With the Spring (1951), the story of a 17,000-mile journey, keeping pace with the advance of spring up the North American map, and Autumn Across America (1956), an adventurous, wandering, 20,000-mile journey from Cape Cod to California through the most colorful season of the year, Journey Into Summer takes the reader...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just outside your door. Marni Fylling's full-color illustrations make species identification a snap, and concise descriptions include fascinating (and sometimes grotesque) factoids about frequently encountered plants, insects, arachnids, birds, and mammals....
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The hugely admired author of "The Last Fine Time" preserves and makes new the sights, smells, sounds, and poetry of country living. Klinkenborg reveals the beauty of the American landscape, not from a scenic overlook, but through a screened-in porch or from the window of a pickup driving down an empty highway in the teeth of an approaching storm.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons-of learning our own backyard, rewilding, loving nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience-hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate." --
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Charismatic and controversial, Louis Agassiz is our least known revolutionary-some fifty years after American independence, he became a founding father of American science. One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching American science as we know it. The irrepressible Louis Agassiz, legendary at a young age for his work on mountain glaciers, focused his prodigious energies on the fauna of the New World....
9) North with the spring: a naturalist's record of a 17,000 mile journey with the North-American spring
Author
Series
American seasons volume first season
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt created the nation's first National Monument destination. The purpose was to preserve all of America's significant pieces of history. Now viewers can take a journey through the ecology, geology, and beauty of the Great Plains, the geologic West, and the historic South in an adventure never to be forgotten.
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