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xxix, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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SPRING. "And what is so rare as a day in June?" / James Russell Lowell -- "In the [months] of March, April, and May" / John Brereton -- Second spring in Plymouth / John Pory -- "Walden is melting apace" / Henry David Thoreau -- Return of the alewives / Henry Beston -- Ice jam on the Penobscot / Ben Ames Williams -- Sugar bush / Thomas E. Ripley -- Mrs. Trollope visits Trenton Falls / Frances Trollope -- The return of the birds / John Burroughs -- Love flight of the woodcock / Edwin Way Teale -- "May-month-the bumblebee month" / Walt Whitman -- Spring in Washington / Louis J. Halle -- Migrants of the spring sea / Rachel Carson -- The saga of Sandy Hill / Carl Kauffeld -- Alligator interlude / William Bartram -- First spring in [Kentucky] / John Filson -- Most abundant bird in the world / Alexander Wilson -- Back from Argentine / Aldo Leopold -- Dust / Meridel Le Sueur -- Spring on the Mississippi / Mark Twain -- The fur trade frontier moves west / Washington Irving -- Thunder on the Oregon trail / Francis Parkman -- Pocket gophers and the upper Missouri / John James Audubon -- A trip on the prairie / Theodore Roosevelt -- Big bend country / George Miksch Sutton -- The desert spring / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Primeval splendor at Indian Bar / Louise A. K. S. Clappe -- Mark Twain on California / Mark Twain -- The bee pastures / John Muir -- "Season of plenty on the Columbia" / Washington Irving -- "When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd" - Walt Whitman -- SUMMER. Midsummer / John Townsend Trowbridge -- Summer in wineland -- In the Maine woods / Henry David Thoreau -- To walk by night / Henry David Thoreau -- "Miss Nims, take a letter" / E. B. White -- Dance of the sand launce: the year at high tide / Henry Beston -- The sands of Muskeget / Edward Howe Forbush -- "The island of the Manhatas" / Isaack De Rasieres -- Atalapha, a winged brownie / Ernest Thompson Seton -- "Even in the middest of summer in incredible abundance" |
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"Flora and fauna of Spanish Florida / William Bartram -- Turtles on Tortugas / John Sparke -- Ohio picnic / Frances Trollope -- Kentucky excursions / Frances Trollope -- Marquette finds the father of waters / Jacques Marquette -- Source of the Mississippi / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- Prairie birthday / Aldo Leopold -- "The season of prickly pears" -- / Alva Nunez Cabeza De Vaca -- Onate goes east -- When he went west / Horace Greeley -- An then came the grasshoppers / Stuart Henry -- Mark Twain on an Alkali Desert / Mark Twain -- First boats through the Grand Canyon / John Wesley Powell -- Huachuca heaven / Carl Kauffeld -- Sierra thunderstorms / John Muir -- Summer days at Mount Shasta / John Muir -- First view of "Tacoma" / Theodore Winthrop -- First attempt on Rainier / August Valentine Kautz -- Return to the river / Roderick L. Haig-Brown -- Wilderness beach / William O. Douglas -- The marshes of Glynn / Sidney Lanier -- AUTUMN. "Riding back through the Georgia fall" / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Cruising the primeval woods / John S. Springer -- "In October I went a-graping" / Henry David Thoreau -- Sugar maple / Donald Culross Peattie -- "In the days of their abundance" / Henry Marion Hall -- Morning interlude / Wyman Richardson -- A week of bee catching / Hector St. John De Crevecoeur -- Insects in October / John Burroughs -- "First fall hush" / John Burroughs -- "this autumn emptiness of widespread sea" / Howard J. Shannon -- First sanctuary / Henry Hill Collins, Jr. -- Down to the sea in fall / Lorus J. & Margery J. Milne -- The lantern bearers / Gilbert Klingel -- On the beautiful Ohio / Timothy Flint -- Autumn at Possum Trot farm / Leonard Hall -- End of the Oregon trail / Francis Parkman -- Fire on the prairie / Irving Berdine Richman -- Of marshes and fall / Paul L. Errington -- Falling leaf / Sigurd F. Olson -- En route to El Paso / John Russell Bartlett -- In search of an autumn / Joseph Wood Krutch |
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First California newsletter - Fall / Sebastian Vizcaino -- Rainy season / Richard Francis Dana -- "Wild grandeur and awful magnificence " / Louise A. K. S. Clappe -- Butterfly trees / Edwin Way Teale -- November / William Cullen Bryant -- WINTER. The vision of Sir Launfal / James Russell Lowell -- "Women keep their [natural] complexions" / William Wood -- "There came a hundred men of hyperborean extraction" / Henry David Thoreau -- Winter visitors / Henry Beston -- Prodigies of a great storm / John Winthrop -- "Upon the south-side of Long-island in the winter, lie store of whales" /Daniel Denton -- Where do the ducks go in winter? / Arthur J. Roth -- "But the winters are more serene" / Moreau De St. Mery -- A winter day on the sea beach / Walt Whitman -- Winter isolation / Maurice Broun -- "I passed through a flat, pine covered country" / Alexander Wilson -- The spoonbill comes into its own / Robert Porter Allen -- Sugar camp / Louis Bromfield -- The spawning / Sigurd F. Olson -- Winter orchard / Josephine Johnson -- The whoopers still dance / Robert Porter Allen -- The battle of the marten and the porcupine / Mayne Reid -- Across the Sierra Nevada in winter / John Charles Fremont -- Death Valley in '49 / William Lewis Manly -- A January day in Los Angeles / Charles Nordhoff -- The snow / John Muir -- The snow-storm / Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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Natural history -- United States.
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Nature in literature.
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