One Day on Beetle Rock - Couverture souple

Carrighar, Sally

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803263015 ISBN 13 : 9780803263017

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 1978

Synopsis

The place is Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park. The time is a day in June, the liveliest season of the animal year. The characters are a weasel, a Sierra grouse, a chickaree, a black bear, a lizard, a coyote, a deer mouse, a Stellar Jay, a mule deer. The day begins with the weasel's furious pre-dawn hunt and closes with the tiny song of the deer mouse. Combining a novelist's power with a naturalist's knowledge, the author unfolds a drama of adventure and survival, life and death. "One Day on Beetle Rock is a book of rare distinction, at once a record of objective facts, of deep feeling without sentimentality, and intense and subtle perception expressed in beauty. ... It has a quality of enchantment." New York Times "A front-row addition to any shelf of nature classics." Edwin Way Teale "The book is beautifully written, but there is more here than beautiful writing. With a skillful, expansive style, the author succeeds in imparting the 'feel' of nine diverse lives, each as different from the others as though they existed in different worlds." Book Week "These are stories of the adventures of animals, but with a difference the stories are of actual animal^ in an actual place, as the author has observed them. She has watched carefully and reported truthfully, always with sensitive understanding and a keen awareness of beauty. The tales are fictions, yes, but fiction closely parallel with fact. This is real natural history." Robert C. Miller Among Sally Carrighar's other books are One Day at Teton Marsh (also a Bison Book), Wild Heritage, and The Twilight Seas-. A Blue Whale's Journey. Cover: "At Meadow's Edge" © 1987 by Stephen Lyman. Courtesy of The Greenwich Workshop, Trumbull. CT.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0803263015
• ISBN 13: 9780803263017
• Reliure: Broché