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A volume for a lifetime is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining accounts of American trees, we catch glimpses of our country's history and past daily life that no textbook could ever illuminate so vividly. Here you'll learn about everything from how a species was discovered to the part it played in our country's history. Pioneers often stabled an animal...

Originally published in the early 1900s. The illustrated contents include: Schoolmen and Herbalists The Wonderful World of the Microscope Science at Court: Buffon and Reaumur Linnaeus and His Life Work The Great Field Trips Lamarck Georges Cuvier Bartram and Michaux Wilderness Birdsmen; Wilson and Audubon Frontier Utopians Goethe and the Romanticists Darwin and Wallace Darwinism and the Man Behind It Fabre and the World of Insects etc. Many of the earliest natural history books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home...