Seasons of the Wild: A Year of Nature's Magic and Mysteries (The Curious Naturalist Series) [Paperback]

Sy Montgomery (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

When she's not trekking off to places like India to study tigers (Spell of the Tiger, LJ 1/95), Montgomery enjoys writing a "Nature Journal" column for the Boston Globe. This is the second collection of her columns (after Nature's Everyday Mysteries, Chapters, 1993). Arranged in four seasonal sections, these essays examine many facets of New England natural history, from plant galls and pine trees to black flies, herring gulls, and bats. An essay on mountain lions reports a possible comeback in the East, while a piece on robins offers a fresh look at this familiar bird. Only the essay on deer falls flat; she understates the damage they do to the landscape and does not mention that they carry the tick that causes Lyme disease. Otherwise, the only fault of these essays is their brevity. Maybe next time she will consider expanding some of her columns instead of just reprinting them in book form. Recommended primarily for regional collections.?Beth Clewis Crim, Prince William P.L., Va.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Sy Montgomery is an author, naturalist, newspaper columnist, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who writes for children as well as adults. Among her award-winning books are The Snake Scientist and The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans. She made four expeditions to Peru and Brazil to study the pink dolphins of the Amazon. She lives in New Hampshire.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Chapters Publishing Ltd. (March 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881527905
• ISBN-13: 978-1881527909
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,570,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

"Part Emily Dickinson, part Indiana Jones," as the Boston Globe has called her, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and swum with piranhas and pink dolphins in the Amazon. To research her books, films and articles, she has worked in a pit swarming with 18,000 snakes in Canada and been hunted by a tiger in India. She has hiked the Altai Mountains of Mongolia's Gobi desert in search of snow leopards and penetrated the cloud forests of Papua New Guinea to radio collar tree kangaroos. No place is too far to go to bring animals' true stories to adults and children around the world.

Th author of the national bestseller, The Good Good Pig, as well as 15 other celebrated nonfiction books, Montgomery writes for print as well as broadcast in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible at what she considers a critical turning point in human history. "We are on the cusp of either destroying this sweet, green Earth or revolutionizing the way we understand the rest of animate creation," she says. "It's an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It's a great time to be alive."