Autumn Across America

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AUTUMN ACROSS AMERICA By Edwin Way Teale Pulitzer Prize and Burroughs Award Winner Author of The American Seasons comprising North With The Spring^ Journey Into SummeRj Autumn Across America and Wandering Through Winter. With 49 Beautiful Photographs by the Author Come for a twenty-thousand mile journey through the bright-colored autumn! From Cape Cod to California, watching the changes of fali, seeing all the beauty that makes the American autumn world-famous, the author carries his readers along on this new adventure with a season. The line of travel is across the advancing front of the season, revealing it in a cross-section from coast to coast. The reader, in a leisurely westward journey, pokes into out-of-the-way places, encounters interesting people, discovers fascinating mysteries of nature, and travels through the infinitely varied autumns of the land, in mountains, deserts, rain forests, by the sea. And here again are adventures along the way: flying down ridges with the... Tovább

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AUTUMN ACROSS AMERICA By Edwin Way Teale Pulitzer Prize and Burroughs Award Winner Author of The American Seasons comprising North With The Spring^ Journey Into SummeRj Autumn Across America and Wandering Through Winter. With 49 Beautiful Photographs by the Author Come for a twenty-thousand mile journey through the bright-colored autumn! From Cape Cod to California, watching the changes of fali, seeing all the beauty that makes the American autumn world-famous, the author carries his readers along on this new adventure with a season. The line of travel is across the advancing front of the season, revealing it in a cross-section from coast to coast. The reader, in a leisurely westward journey, pokes into out-of-the-way places, encounters interesting people, discovers fascinating mysteries of nature, and travels through the infinitely varied autumns of the land, in mountains, deserts, rain forests, by the sea. And here again are adventures along the way: flying down ridges with the migrating hawks, descending into submarine jungles of the eelgrass, following the trail of a pioneer naturalist along a warbler river, spending a day with fern gatherers in a forest of giants. All wild things are in the province of this book. All aspects of autumn and the dramatic changes of autumn are within its rangé. It is förmed of first-hand, on-the-spot impressions. You go walking with the author and with hím see the birds, the flowers, the butterflies, the trees, the stars, the wide-open, sweet-smelling , land. Here is a companion who is endlessly the enricher, amuser and informant. There is a freshness about Teale that is unique. What characterizes him most of all is the great satisfaction and inspiration which he gets from his love of natural
(Continued jrom front flap) things, and so infectious is his enjoyment that he takes every reader with him. His interest extends over the whole of nature, interrelating it all. Here is the warm and mellow record of a roving pilgrimage across twenty-six states, from coast to coast, all through the autumn. It is a travel book that reveals the interest and beauty of America from a new angle. Its pages are packed with vivid scenes and odd and engrossing facts of natural history. It is a great cornucopia of a book, overflowing with the autumnal harvest of a lifetime of nature living and nature loving. And it is generously illustrated with fascinating photographs taken by the author on his unique journey. NORTH WITH THE SPRING "It is not only a nature book, it is alsó a travel book, fiiled with interesting descriptions of fascinating places unknown to most travelers. It is a pleasant, leisurely, mellow sort of book that can be read with enjoyment by anyone whose heart leaps up when he beholds the sights of spring." -Orville Prescott in The New York Times TOURNEY INTO SUMMER "The record of a happy, hard-working summer vacation; a rediscovery of America and a plea for conservation of American wilderness, forests, swamps and rivers; a chronicle of mysteries solved and unsolved; a philosophy of good living. And, as usual, an album of Mr. Teale's fine photographs add to the pictorial quality of his text." -Lewis Gannett in New York Herald Tribüné WANDERING THROUGH WINTER "Nothing about this book is trivial, inconsequential; it is, like its predecessors, a very vitai book, informative and engrossing. Teale is in the best tradition of the philosopher-naturalist and this peerless quartet now closed with WANDERING THROUGH WINTER crowns his achievements." -August Derleth in The Madison Capital Times Vissza