Journey Into Summer Author:Edwin Way Teale Edwin Way Teale is a literary naturalist who is described by The Saturday Review as a writer, naturalist and photographer who "excels in all three branches of his art." He has been awarded the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writing. His books have been published in England and in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish and Brai... more »lle editions. He is a past-president of the New York Entomalogical Society, a member of The Explorers Club, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Science and an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. In North With the Spring he explored a new field, the natural history of a season. The story of a 17,000 mile journey, keeping pace with the advance of spring up the North American map, it forms the first of a projected series of four books on The American Seasons. Autumn Across America adds another volume to this monumental series. In an adventurous, wandering, 20,000 mile journey, it carries the reader from Cape Cod to California throught the most colorful season of the year. Now Journey Into Summer takes the reader from northern New England along the shore of the Great Lakes, south through the corn country and into the high Rocky Mountains, for another 19,000 miles of nature exploration through the American summer.« less