The Road of a Naturalist

by Donald Culross Peattie

Overview

The Road of a Naturalist is a fascinating autobiographical wonder written by one of America's most beloved naturalists at the height of his fame. A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet, Donald Culross Peattie takes us on an confessional journey across the landscape of his life. Told in flashbacks of years past and interspersed with impressions of a journey by motorcar across the American West, it is intensely personal. It is American in the best sense of the word. From saying goodbye to the trees at his childhood home on Lake Michigan to a man formed via Harvard and New York City, finally discovering a belief in the nature of things in a cabin in the Grand Tentons, it is not told as as linear life story but rather an adventure in living, in science, in thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781595341686
Publisher:	Trinity University Press
Publication date:	10/10/2013
Series:	Donald Culross Peattie Library
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Donald Culross Peattie (1898–1964) was one of the most influential American nature writers of the 20th century. Peattie was born in Chicago and grew up in Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, which sparked his interest in the immense wonders of nature. He studied at the Universityof Chicago and Harvard University. After working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he decided to pursue a career as a writer. In 1925 he became a nature columnist for the Washington Star Newspaper and subsequently went on to pen more than twenty fiction and nonfiction books in the next five decades. Widely acclaimed and popular in his age, his legacy has been attributed as inspiring a modern age of nature writing.

Table of Contents

1 To The Mojave 1

2 Survival on the Desert 21

3 Death Valley, Christmas, 1849 39

4 Early on the Way 51

5 Roving Reporter 66

6 Sagebrush 88

7 A House that was Home 109

8 Wyoming in the Eocene 123

9 Young Man Not of Manhattan 138

10 A Cabin on Fish Creek 158

11 My Town 178

12 The Long Good-Bye 194

13 Down from High Passes 219

14 Falling Water 287

15 How the Drought Broke 254

16 Since Walden 273

17 Road Without End 294