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Title: The Curious Naturalist: Nature's Everyday Mysteries by Sy Montgomery ISBN: 0-89272-510-9 Publisher: Down East Books Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A pleasurable read.
Comment: A beautifully written book about the natural world that supplies the reader with an enormous amount of information about the world we seldom see and the other lives which inhabit it.
Rating: 5
Summary: The wonders of your own backyard
Comment: This is a book that I will never lend out. I will buy a few extra copies of it to give away, but I want to keep my copy forever. I found it by searching Amazon for some good natural history books to read in the winter, when I miss my garden. I really lucked out with this one.
Sy Montgomery was the nature columnist for the Boston Globe. She is extremely knowledgable, and her writing is concise yet filled with wonder at her magical subjects. I learned about the lovelorn messages sent by singing insects on autumn evenings, the messages contained in spiderwebs, the effects of winter snow on the way sound travels, the way all life depends on the unusual structure of water. Most fun is the author's description of ways to interact with other creatures. I learned that it is easy to teach wild birds to eat out of your hand, and that one can flirt with fireflies in their own language using a flashlight in the grass. The author offers some of these suggestions as experiments for children, but at the tender age of 54 I am looking forward to trying them all out by myself.
Another thing I like about this book is that each essay can be read in a single sitting (or a single night before going to sleep, in my case). They are concise. I get a lot of delight per unit time spent reading.
The only thing wrong with this book is that it needs a better title. If Sy Montgomery had the lovely titles that Diane Ackerman comes up with, she would quickly overtake Ackerman's sales numbers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reconnect with the seasons
Comment: In the middle of a bleak, New England winter and at a time in my life when I felt disconnected with the natural world due to health difficulties, I purchased this book. I opened it to the section on winter and read the first essay entitled, "Sounds and Silences of December." Not only was it interesting to learn that sound travels farther and is clearer over frozen ground, but it encouraged me to go outside and see for myself! Since then, this book has been a source of valuable information regarding the unique aspects of each season. Also, it has been a source of encouragement, drawing me out-of-doors to explore. I don't have to venture far from home to experience some of the things written about in the book. Learn about peepers in spring, mud season, insects, messages in spider webs, chipmunks and squirrels, animal migrations, exploring the off-season beach in winter...just to name a few. If you've never been an outdoorsy person or need some guidance to reconnect, this is an excellent choice.
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Title: The Wild Out Your Window: Exploring Nature Near at Hand by Sy Montgomery ISBN: 0892725753 Publisher: Down East Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Cultivating Delight : A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman ISBN: 0060505362 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Winter World : The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich ISBN: 0060197447 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman ISBN: 0679735666 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 10 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Discovering Moths: Nighttime Jewels in Your Own Backyard by John Himmelman ISBN: 0892725281 Publisher: Down East Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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