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The Nearsighted Naturalist Paperback - 1998

by Ann Zwinger

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Seeking out wildflowers and whitewater, Ann Zwinger has called many places home. "The Nearsighted Naturalist" brings together work from more than two decades in her career as one of our most distinguished natural history writers. From the Indiana landscape of her youth to New Zealand's Kapiti Island, Zwinger leads an ever-widening armchair tour of places both ordinary and astonishing. Illustrations.

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Seeking out wildflowers and whitewater, Ann Zwinger has called many places home. The Nearsighted Naturalist brings together work from more than two decades in her career as one of our most distinguished natural history writers. From the Indiana landscape of her youth to her Colorado mountain retreat, from Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon to New Zealand's Kapiti Island, Zwinger leads an ever-widening armchair tour of natural places both ordinary and astonishing. Whether anticipating the first day of spring or seeing the elegance of the subtle hues of a moth's papery wings, Zwinger's trademark eye for detail brings the landscape alive. Her travels trace her evolution from a home-centered wife and mother to a wandering adventurer, an evolution that has taught her to be at home in nature no matter where she is. Sprinkled with Zwinger's own charming pen-and-ink drawings, The Nearsighted Naturalist reminds us of the power of the very best nature writing. It is an invitation to wander, to travel to faraway places, to revisit your own backyard, to chase dragonflies, and to experience the healing power of a sea-smoothed pebble. With the author, readers will embark on a fascinating exploration into distant deserts of the mind and hillsides of the heart.

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Seeking out wildflowers and whitewater, Ann Zwinger has called many places home. "The Nearsighted Naturalist" brings together work from more than two decades in her career as one of our most distinguished natural history writers. From the Indiana landscape of her youth to her Colorado mountain retreat, from Arizona's Aravaipa Canyon to New Zealand's Kapiti Island, Zwinger leads an ever-widening armchair tour of natural places both ordinary and astonishing. Whether anticipating the first day of spring or seeing the elegance of the subtle hues of a moth's papery wings, Zwinger's trademark eye for detail brings the landscape alive. Her travels trace her evolution from a home-centered wife and mother to a wandering adventurer, an evolution that has taught her to be at home in nature no matter where she is. Sprinkled with Zwinger's own charming pen-and-ink drawings, "The Nearsighted Naturalist" reminds us of the power of the very best nature writing. It is an invitation to wander, to travel to faraway places, to revisit your own backyard, to chase dragonflies, and to experience the healing power of a sea-smoothed pebble. With the author, readers will embark on a fascinating exploration into distant deserts of the mind and hillsides of the heart.

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  • Title The Nearsighted Naturalist
  • Author Ann Zwinger
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 292
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780816518814 / 0816518815
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.11 x 6.03 x 0.73 in (23.14 x 15.32 x 1.85 cm)
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Natural history, Nature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-8881
  • Dewey Decimal Code 508

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  • Library Journal, 11/01/1998, Page 0

About the author

Ann Zwinger has written and illustrated many books, including Run, River, Run, which won the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and in Audubon, Orion, and other magazines.

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