Natural histories
Subtitle: stories from the Tennessee Valley
By: Stephen Lyn Bales ; with a foreword by Sam Venable.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Outdoor Tennessee series
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781572335615
Subjects: Natural history -- Tennessee River Valley.; Seasons -- Tennessee River Valley.
Description: "In sixteen essays, naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales ventures far and wide among the richly diverse flora and fauna of his native Tennessee Valley. Whether describing the pivotal role the hedge plant Osage orange played in a key Civil War battle or the political firestorm that attended the discovery of a tiny fish dubbed the snail darter, Bales illuminates the complicated relationships between humans and their neighbors in the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Winter. Carolina chickadee ; River cane ; Beaver ; American toad; title: Spring. Freshwater mussels ; Whip-poor-will ; Periodical cicadas ; Gray bat; title: Summer. Passionflower ; Darters ; Pawpaw ; Opossum; title: Fall. Wild turkey ; Osage orange ; Eastern sycamore ; Bald eagle.