With dry humor and an always engaging voice, Paula Whyman takes us on an entertaining and unexpected journey restoring a wild Virginia mountaintop. Bad Naturalist is a master class in ecology, humility, and perseverance, that will have you thinking about mid-life larks, plants, and gardens, in a whole new light.” —Susan Coll, former president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and author of Real Life and Other Fictions
"A brilliant, richly layered exploration of the natural world, Paula Whyman’s gripping tale embeds the reader on a mountaintop, sweeping us through the landscape and her life while braiding memoir, biodiversity, expertise, and doubt, along with inevitable setbacks that she counters with sheer determination. Whyman, a ‘pretty good’ naturalist, is the perfect guide to today’s urgent questions, proposing some unexpected answers and delivering it all in unputdownable prose, with a sense of humor and a joyful spirit." —Jordan Goodman, author of Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors, an Adventurous History of Botany
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BN ID: | 2940192562390 |
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Publisher: | Hachette Audio |
Publication date: | 01/07/2025 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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