Summer World
Subtitle: A Season of Bounty
Publisher: Ecco
Published: April 7, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780060742171
Subjects: Outdoors & Nature -- Ecology; Outdoors & Nature -- Environment -- Ecology; Outdoors & Nature -- Fauna; Outdoors & Nature -- Nature Writing; Outdoors & Nature -- Reference; Science -- Biological Sciences -- Animals; Science -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology; Science -- Nature & Ecology -- Natural History
Description: 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.