In the early twentieth century, university professor and Methodist minister Dallas Lore Sharp made a splash in the often-stuffy field of nature writing with this collection of essays in his unique voice, which combines encyclopedic knowledge of flora and fauna with a wry wit and keen observational skills.
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- THE FACE OF THE FIELDS
- Contents
- I - The Face of the Fields
- II - Turtle Eggs for Agassiz
- III - The Edge of Night
- IV - The Scarcity of Skunks
- V - The Nature-Writer
- VI - John Burroughs
- VII - Hunting the Snow
- VIII - The Clam Farm
- IX - The Commuter's Thanksgiving