Fresh Fields

Fresh Fields
Author: John Burroughs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1885
Genre: Natural history
ISBN:

Fresh Fields

Fresh Fields
Author: John Burroughs
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: History
ISBN:

Fresh Fields is a naturalist book by John Burroughs. Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. Excerpt: "July 16. In the fields beyond Shottery. Bright and breezy, with appearance of slight showers in the distance. Thermometer probably about seventy; a good working temperature. Clover—white, red, and yellow (white predominating)—in the fields all about me. The red very ruddy; the white large. The only noticeable bird voice that of the yellow-hammer, two or three being within ear-shot."

Fresh Fields

Fresh Fields
Author: John Burroughs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1895
Genre: Birds
ISBN:

Coves of Departure

Coves of Departure
Author: John Seibert Farnsworth
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1501730207

In a book that has been called "a love song to nature," the author documents the latest decade of his explorations of the Baja peninsula and the Sea of Cortez. While much of the book narrates his experience as a writing professor taking undergraduates on sea kayak expeditions to the Isla Espiritu Santo archipelago each year during spring break, the book also reflects on experiences with a condor restoration project in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, and an altogether different teaching experience based in a field station on Bahia de los Angeles. While the author’s intent is to evoke Baja ecologies in fresh ways, the reader comes to realize that he’s also describing how education can become a transformational experience. A retired scuba instructor who turned to academics and went on to receive his college’s highest teaching award, Dr. Farnsworth believes that education should be a lifelong adventure, and that explorations of the natural world should be animated by reverence and delight.