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Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
by David M. Carroll
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0547069642
- ISBN 13
- 9780547069647
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Tom & Mary, with fond remembrance and all best wishes. Wild places always, David." Signed in full below that and dated "December 2012." Uncommon signed. Third printing. An "intensely observed chronicle of Carrol's annual March-to-November wetlands immersion," this book was a finalist of the National Book Award in nonfiction. Carroll won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing for *The Swampwalker's Journal* and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Fine book in very near fine jacket with just a touch of wear to corners and edges of flap folds. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
Synopsis
The writer, naturalist, and artist David Carroll illuminates the ecology and life histories the tree frogs, hawks, foxes, and the increasingly rare wood and spotted turtles he has been tracking for decades with the precision and passion that won him a 2006 MacArthur "genius" award. Following theWater is the intensely observed chronicle of Carroll’s annual March-to-November wetlands immersion—from the joy of the first turtle sighting in March to the gorgeously described, vibrant trilling of tree frogs ("lichen with eyes") in late May to the ancient sense of love and loss Carroll experiences each autumn when it is time once again to part with open water. Illustrated with the author’s fine pen-and-ink drawings, Following theWater is a gorgeous evocation of nature, an utterly unique "admission ticket to a secret corner of the world" (Bill McKibben).
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- Rural Hours
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- Title
- Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
- Author
- David M. Carroll
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0547069642
- ISBN 13
- 9780547069647
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2009
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About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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