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A Natural History of North American Trees
A Natural History of North American Trees Author:Donald Culross Peattie “A volume for a lifetime” is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peattie’s two great classics, referred to elsewhere as “the most eloquent, informative, and entertaining books ever written about the trees of North America.” The result is a picture of life in America from its earliest days to t... more »he middle of the last century. The information is always interesting, but it often is heartbreaking as well. While Peattie looks for the better side of man’s nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that has doomed so much of America’s virgin forests. No one will read this book without the occasional lump in the throat. More than one hundred of the original, stunning black-and-white illustrations by Paul Landacre make this a visual as well as a literary treat.« less