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Following the Water Trade cloth - 2009
by Carroll, David M.
The writer, naturalist, and artist David Carroll illuminates the ecology and life histories of his "mud people"the tree frogs, hawks, foxes, and the increasingly rare wood and spotted turtles he has been tracking for decadeswith the precision and passion that won him a 2006 MacArthur "genius" award.Following theWater is the intensely observed chronicle of Carroll’s annual March-to-November wetlands immersionfrom the joy of the first turtle sighting in March to the gorgeously described, vibrant trilling of tree frogs ("lichen with eyes") in late May to the ancient sense of love and loss Carroll experiences each autumn when it is time once again to part with open water.Illustrated with the author’s fine pen-and-ink drawings, Following theWater is a gorgeous evocation of nature, an utterly unique "admission ticket to a secret corner of the world" (Bill McKibben).
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The writer, naturalist, and artist David Carroll illuminates the ecology and life histories the tree frogs, hawks, foxes, and the increasingly rare wood and spotted turtles he has been tracking for decades with the precision and passion that won him a 2006 MacArthur "genius" award.Following theWater is the intensely observed chronicle of Carroll’s annual March-to-November wetlands immersionfrom the joy of the first turtle sighting in March to the gorgeously described, vibrant trilling of tree frogs ("lichen with eyes") in late May to the ancient sense of love and loss Carroll experiences each autumn when it is time once again to part with open water.Illustrated with the author’s fine pen-and-ink drawings, Following theWater is a gorgeous evocation of nature, an utterly unique "admission ticket to a secret corner of the world" (Bill McKibben).
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- Author Carroll, David M.
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- Pages 208
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
- Date 2009-08-12
- ISBN 9780547069647
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Tom & Mary, with fond remembrance and all best wishes. Wild places always, David." Signed in full below that and dated "December 2012." Uncommon signed. Third printing. An "intensely observed chronicle of Carrol's annual March-to-November wetlands immersion," this book was a finalist of the National Book Award in nonfiction. Carroll won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing for *The Swampwalker's Journal* and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Fine book in very near fine jacket with just a touch of wear to corners and edges of flap folds. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
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