Wandering Through Winter

With the publication of Wandering Through Winter, Edwin Way Teale completes the ambitious project on which he has been engaged for more than twenty years. This imaginative undertaking is something no other naturalist has ever attempted, a four-volume, continent wide survey of the American seasons. In nearly 1,400 pages the quartet of books leads the reader off the beaten path on a grand tour of the natural history of the country. Through the pages of North With the Spring, Journey Into Summer and Autumn Across America, hundreds of thousands of readers, here and abroad, have shared in this outstanding nature adventure of our time.

In the variety of its experiences and the diversity of the country covered, Wandering Through Winter is one of the richest of the seasonal books. Beginning at the Silver Strand, below San Diego, in the far southwestern corner of mainland America, it follows a leisurely, winding, 20,000-mile trail to end is the extreme northeastern corner of the country, above Caribou, in Maine. With America's foremost writer-photographer-naturalist as guide, the reader encounters whooping cranes and migrating whales, longspurs on the Staked Plains of Texas, pup fish of Death Valley and the eagles of a Mississippi ice jam. He spends a day with a witch hazel gatherer, camps in the desert, and rides on the caterpillar treads of a snow Weasel to a deeryard in northern Maine.