One of two genuine classics of American nature writing now in paperback; the other is A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America.
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"Both poetically evocative and deep with scholarly information . . . The descriptions amount to essays in human ecology." -- Thomas Lyon
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Paul H. Landacre was a renowned print artist. Paul, a noted naturalist, spent much time in the secluded spot gardening and befriending local wildlife near his home in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. He famously rehabilitated a wounded petrel, and the two became so attached that the bird would sit on his shoulder while he read the newspaper on the house’s front porch. He later adopted the petrel as his monogram (perhaps his affinity for the bird was related to his own handicap, for Landacre, a former champion at track and field, had become disabled by a streptococcus infection while in college). Many of his engravings were in fact inspired by the landscape around the El Moran property, and virtually all of the works that he created during his and Margaret’s time there were made on his own hand press: a fact which some have credited as a turning point in his career, for it enabled him to constantly check the progress of his work, as well as personally select with which paper and ink they would be printed. Paul Hambleton Landacre (1893-1963) and his wife Margaret moved to 2006 El Moran in March of 1932, having acquired the deed for the Depression-era price of two thousand dollars. They moved to El Moran shortly after the artist published a book of his works, titled “California Hills.” At the time, Landacre had already begun working exclusively in the art of printmaking with wood engravings, having studied at the Otis College of Art and Design (he would later teach there). Paul Landacre passed away in 1963, due to complications in the aftermath of a suicide attempt made soon after Margaret died. His work is considered by many to be the standard by which engraved wood printmaking is judged.
Donald Peattie is the author of "A Natural History of Western Trees", "A Natural History of Trees" and a few dozen more, was described by Joseph Wood Krutch as "perhaps the most widely read of all contemporary American nature writers.
Donald Peattie is the author of "A Natural History of Western Trees", "A Natural History of Trees" and a few dozen more, was described by Joseph Wood Krutch as "perhaps the most widely read of all contemporary American nature writers.
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In the same grand style as in his "A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America" the writer continues with unsurpassed stories on trees, in this case the trees of Western North America, where the greatest living trees on the world can be found. What can I add to this? [see also my review on "Eastern Trees"]It is a great pity Donald Culross Peattie was unable to follow through on his plan for a volume on Southern Trees. [For a few brief notes on the life and the untimely death of the writer see the afterword by his son Noel in the 1991 Indiana University Press reprint of "Flowering Earth"]
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THESE TITANIC TREES, with lobed or fluted and massive trunks, possess two barks, a very thick, furrowed, fibrous and corky outer cortex and a close, firm, and thin inner integument. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
meshed veinlets, heartwood light brown tinged, vigorous sucker shoots, sapwood thick, sapwood paler, paler sapwood, light brown heartwood, pale lenticels, whitish sapwood, heartwood pale brown, braided ridges, minute stigma, lower paler, pubescent scales, thin sapwood, pale sapwood, small lenticels, minute calyx, male floret, rusty pubescence, orange lenticels, compressed seeds, upper surface dark green, lower surface paler, yellow sapwood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, New Mexico, British Columbia, Yellow Pine, White Pine, Baja California, Douglas Fir, United States, San Francisco, Sugar Pine, Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Box Elder, San Diego County, Sitka Spruce, Alpine Fir, Puget Sound, North America, Rio Grande, Valley Oak, Vancouver Island, Forest Service, Western Hemlock New!
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THESE TITANIC TREES, with lobed or fluted and massive trunks, possess two barks, a very thick, furrowed, fibrous and corky outer cortex and a close, firm, and thin inner integument. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
meshed veinlets, heartwood light brown tinged, vigorous sucker shoots, sapwood thick, sapwood paler, paler sapwood, light brown heartwood, pale lenticels, whitish sapwood, heartwood pale brown, braided ridges, minute stigma, lower paler, pubescent scales, thin sapwood, pale sapwood, small lenticels, minute calyx, male floret, rusty pubescence, orange lenticels, compressed seeds, upper surface dark green, lower surface paler, yellow sapwood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, New Mexico, British Columbia, Yellow Pine, White Pine, Baja California, Douglas Fir, United States, San Francisco, Sugar Pine, Rocky Mountain, Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Box Elder, San Diego County, Sitka Spruce, Alpine Fir, Puget Sound, North America, Rio Grande, Valley Oak, Vancouver Island, Forest Service, Western Hemlock New!
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