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Seeing Nature

Exploring 34 Parks and Preserves in Philadelphia and the Surrounding Delaware Valley

Anne Sarah Bekker and Edward Sibley Barnard

Temple University Press, 2026

Seeing Nature is a guide to natural wonders found in 34 parks and preserves within Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. Readers are introduced to a variety of habitats, which host an incredible diversity of animals, plants, and fungi. Beautifully illustrated with more than 1,500 captioned color photographs, this informative guide describes over 1,000 species, from grassland birds to carnivorous plants. Suggested routes and maps for each walk guide the way at each site. More in-depth looks at many special features within these places are offered through photographic spreads that illustrate: 

  • the ancient trees of Carpenter’s Woods 
  • the charismatic wading and marsh birds of John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge
  • the life of the vernal pools and wetlands of Five Mile Woods
  • the dragonflies and damselflies of Piney Hollow Preservation Area
  • the new life after a fire at Tom’s Pond in Wharton State Forest
  • the riot of colorful mushrooms of Franklin Parker Preserve
  • the forest wildflowers of Manderfield Preserve
  • and much, much more.
     

New and seasoned naturalists alike will be inspired to explore and get involved in conserving the special places this region has to offer. Information about the ecology and conservation history of each park and preserve is also included. 

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Snowshoeing Through Sewers

Adventures in New York City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia

Michael Aaron Rockland

Rutgers University Press, 2008

When Daniel Boone heard a neighbor's dog bark, he moved West. But when there's no Wild West left, where is adventure to be found? Michael Aaron Rockland looks for adventure in the megalopolis, "not where no one has been but where no one wishes to go . . . across traffic-clogged cities, the parking lots of wall-to-wall suburban malls, and the sinister waterways that seep through rusting industrial sites."

In these ten alternately poetic and comic tales of adventure in the New York/Philadelphia corridor, the most densely populated chunk of America, Rockland walks and bikes areas meant only for cars and paddles through waters capable of dissolving canoes. He hikes the length of New York's Broadway, camps in New York City, treks across Philadelphia, pedals among the tractor trailers of Route 1 in New Jersey, and paddles around Manhattan and through the dark tunnels under Trenton.

Whereas Henry David Thoreau built his cabin on Walden Pond to get out of town, for Rockland, the challenge is to head into town. As he writes, "in the late twentieth century, a weed and trash-filled city lot . . . may be a better place than the wilderness to contemplate one's relationship to nature."
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