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Summer world : a season of bounty / Bernd Heinrich.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Ecco, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: i, 253 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0060742178
  • 9780060742171
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Contents:
Preparing for summer -- Awakening -- Wood frogs -- The early birds -- Bald-faced hornet nests -- Mud daubers and behavior -- The blues -- Artful diners -- Masters of disguise -- Cecropia moths -- Calosamia collapse -- New England longhorns -- Flies -- The hummingbird and the woodpecker -- Deaths and resurrections -- Extreme summer -- Moss, lichens, and Tweedlaarkanniedood -- Perpetual summer species -- Ant wars -- Blackbirds -- Silent summer -- Ending summer -- The last peep.
Summary: Naturalist Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England that he brought us in Winter World. Now he focuses on the animal kingdom in the extremes of the warmer months, with all its feeding, nesting, fighting, and mating. Whether presenting disquisitions on ant wars, the predatory characteristics of wasps, the mating rituals of woodpeckers, or describing an encounter with a road full of wood frogs, Heinrich never stops observing the beautifully complex interactions of animals and plants with nature, giving extraordinary depth to the relationships between habitat and the warming of the earth. --From publisher description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Bernd Heinrich is one of our greatest living naturalists in the tradition of Gerald Durrell....A national treasure."

--Los Angeles Times

Summer World is an intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in the Summer months from Bernd Heinrich, bestselling author of Winter World and "our latter-day Thoreau" (Publishers Weekly). Pulitzer Prize-winner Edmond O. Wilson (On Human Nature) calls Heinrich's fascinating exploration and appreciation of the natural order a, "lovely book, meticulously etched and based on impassioned but exacting scientific research," while the New York Times Book Review raves, "Animals come to life in gripping detail...and so does Heinrich.... The man is irrepressible."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index.

Preparing for summer -- Awakening -- Wood frogs -- The early birds -- Bald-faced hornet nests -- Mud daubers and behavior -- The blues -- Artful diners -- Masters of disguise -- Cecropia moths -- Calosamia collapse -- New England longhorns -- Flies -- The hummingbird and the woodpecker -- Deaths and resurrections -- Extreme summer -- Moss, lichens, and Tweedlaarkanniedood -- Perpetual summer species -- Ant wars -- Blackbirds -- Silent summer -- Ending summer -- The last peep.

Naturalist Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England that he brought us in Winter World. Now he focuses on the animal kingdom in the extremes of the warmer months, with all its feeding, nesting, fighting, and mating. Whether presenting disquisitions on ant wars, the predatory characteristics of wasps, the mating rituals of woodpeckers, or describing an encounter with a road full of wood frogs, Heinrich never stops observing the beautifully complex interactions of animals and plants with nature, giving extraordinary depth to the relationships between habitat and the warming of the earth. --From publisher description.

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