University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005 Paper: 978-0-8229-5862-8 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-7270-9 Library of Congress Classification QH105.P4B66 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 508.748
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winter is the season that most tests our mettle. The psychological burdens of waiting for spring under gray skies compound the challenges of freezing rain, wind chill, deep snow, and dangerous ice. Despite winter’s harshness, there is plenty of beauty and life in the woods if only we know where to look. The stark, white landscape sparkles in the sunshine and glows beneath the moon on crisp, clear nights; bare branches make it easy to see long distances; birds flock to feeders; and animals—even those that should be hibernating—make surprise visits from time to time. Appalachian Winter offers acclaimed naturalist Marcia Bonta’s account of one season as experienced on and around her 650-acre home on the westernmost ridge of the hill-and-valley landscape that dominates central Pennsylvania.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marcia Bonta is a freelance nature writer and the author of, in addition to her Appalachian seasons books, Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania, More Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania, Women in the Field, and Escape to the Mountain, and the editor of American Women Afield. She has written more than three hundred magazine articles for publications such as Birder’s World, Bird Watcher’s Digest, Living Bird, and Hawk Mountain News. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, and she is a popular lecturer on nature and nature writing.
REVIEWS
“Bonta is unique and spends time on her mountain every day of the year, sometimes for short periods but often for hours. She moves quietly and misses little, recording her observations in detail in the nature journals she started when she moved to the mountain in August, 1971.If you enjoy winter and nature this is a great book. If you like nature but not winter it still might be a great book because Bonta shows that winter is not lacking in natural delights.” --Lancaster Sunday News
“Marcia Bonta is a diligent, broad-ranging naturalist whose love for the Appalachians shines through on every page of this delightful book.”—Charles Fergus, author of Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge of the World
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<p. vii, no folio, p. viii, cont'd or blank Contents Acknowledgments 000 In Memoriam 000 Introduction 000 Maps of the Region 000 "In the Ice Forest" 000 December 000 January 000 February 000 March 000 Selected Bibliography 000 Index 000
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