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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...

First published in 1949 and praised in the New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite", A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. As the forerunner to such important books as Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, and Robert Finch's The Primal Place, this classic work remains...

Describes the various landscapes of America, from the Rocky Mountains and Alaska's wildlands to the giant sequoias of California, relating the parent-child relationship to these natural settings.

"A collection of some of John Muir's most memorable and inspirational words reminds us of a shared responsibility and inescapable bond--that all inhabitants of this planet 'travel the Milky Way together'"--

Studies the interaction of plants and animals, results, of overpopulation, starvation, and disease, food chains, and solutions to future problems.