Summer World: A Season of Bounty
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"Bernd Heinrich is one of our greatest living naturalists in the tradition of Gerald Durrell....A national treasure."
—Los Angeles Times
Summer World is an intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in the Summer months from Bernd Heinrich, bestselling author of Winter World and "our latter-day Thoreau" (Publishers Weekly). Pulitzer Prize-winner Edmond O. Wilson (On Human Nature) calls Heinrich's fascinating exploration and appreciation of the natural order a, "lovely book, meticulously etched and based on impassioned but exacting scientific research," while the New York Times Book Review raves, "Animals come to life in gripping detail...and so does Heinrich.... The man is irrepressible."
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Bernd Heinrich. (2009). Summer World: A Season of Bounty. HarperCollins.
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BERND HEINRICH is an acclaimed scientist and the author of numerous books, including the best-selling Winter World, Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, The Homing Instinct, and One Wild Bird at a Time. Among Heinrich's many honors is the 2013 PEN New England Award in nonfiction for Life Everlasting. He resides in Maine.
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—Los Angeles Times
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"Bernd Heinrich's books open my eyes and help me see the wonder of the natural world. . . . I love the fascinating details of his drawings, the lyricism of his observations, the way he unveils not only the physical workings of nature but the stories and dramas within it." — Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Bonesetter's Daughter and The Joy Luck Club
"It is possible there is a better guide to the world around us than Bernd Heinrich, but I've not come across him. This is the book that will get you out the door into the season!" — Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
"One of our greatest living naturalists...Heinrich, author of 15 marvelous, mind-altering books...is a national treasure." — Los Angeles Times
"When warm spring days turn blustery, it's useful to have a book writhing with the magic of summer. Bernd Heinrich delivers...in 'Summer World.'" — Seattle Times
"This is hands-and-knees science at its most engaging...as the great greening occurs all around us, we can only hope to see half as much as Heinrich does." — Anthony Doerr, Boston Globe
"Bernd Heinrich—the object of my admiration—has been . . . writing about [nature] with brio, for decades. Perhaps his most attractive quality . . . . is his ability to find something intellectually stimulating whenever he steps out the door. . . . The man is irrepressible." — New York Times Book Review
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November 3, 2008
In his pursuit of actively observing his camp in the forests of western Maine and the woods, beaver bog and gardens around his Vermont home, Heinrich (The Trees in My Forest
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, remarking that, like birds, we live in a perpetual summer, not by “strenuous biannual migrations but by creating and retreating into 'climate bubbles,' ” reminding readers that they need “clear vision and also a spiritual imperative so that we will focus on the ultimate ecology, not the proximate economy.”
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—Los Angeles Times
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