Synopses & Reviews
One of two genuine classics of American nature writing now in paperback; the other is A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America.
Review
"Both poetically evocative and deep with scholarly information . . . The descriptions amount to essays in human ecology." -- Thomas Lyon
About the Author
'DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE (18981964), a trained botanist, publishedtwo dozen books in his lifetime, but the tree books are the ones he isremembered for.'