| The Wild Out Your Window Contributor(s): Montgomery, Sy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0892725753 ISBN-13: 9780892725755 Publisher: Down East Books OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: What could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montgomery takes her readers on a season-by-season tour of the wilderness that is often as close as the backyard. Sy invites -- almost dares -- readers to follow her and form hands-on relationships with the plants, animals, birds, and even the insects that share space with people. These essays, most of which originally appeared in Sy's Boston Globe column Nature Journal, are by turns enlightening, entertaining, sometimes amusing, and always absorbing and informative. Filled with natural history and lore, the essays urge readers to appreciate what they find around them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays |
| Dewey: 508.73 |
| LCCN: 2002106605 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.14" W x 9.06" (0.86 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What could be better than watching the natural world out your window or on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montgomery takes her readers on a season-by-season tour of the wilderness that is often as close as the backyard. Sy invites - almost dares - readers to follow her and form hands-on relationships with the plants, animals, birds, and even the insects that share space with people. These essays, most of which originally appeared in Sy's Boston Globe column Nature Journal, are by turns enlightening, entertaining, sometimes amusing, and always absorbing and informative. Filled with natural history and lore, the essays urge readers to appreciate what they find around them. |