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A book about a time gone by, about family, about growing up -- storytelling and descriptive nature writing at its best.

The great naturalist, Edwin Way Teale, spent his boyhood holidays and summers at his grandparents' farm, Lone Oak, in Indiana. In Dune Boy, first published in 1943, he recounts these buccolic visits and his budding interest in the natural world around him. A loner, often bullied by other children, Teale escaped to the roof of the old house where he gazed at the golden dunes in the distance, and dreamed his own fantastic dreams.

The young Teale was fascinated by moths, dragonflies, snakes, and the workings of the farm. He yearned to fly. He tried to hitch a calf to a cart, to ride a pig. He created a "museum" for his collections of arrowheads, stones, and fish skeletons. Most of all, he enjoyed his storytelling, hardworking grandfather, and his book-reading, equally hardworking grandmother. They reveled in and encouraged him. He returned to Lone Oak every summer until he was fifteen, when the old farm house caught fire and burned down.

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6 x 9 trim. LC 98-73453

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If this were a chapter in Cervantes' Don Quixote, it might well be entitled: "Wherein is Discovered the Surroundings in Which we Find Ourselves and Other Passages Worthy of Happy Memory." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plum tangle, old woods road, carriage stone, mountain mint, wild apple tree, whirligig beetles, tree sparrows, field sparrow, evening grosbeaks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Trail Wood, New England, Little River, New York, North Woods, Hampton Brook, Kenyon Road, Firefly Meadow, Azalea Shore, Fern Brook, John Burroughs, Monument Pasture, Nighthawk Hill, Stepping Stone Brook, Veery Lane, Henry Thoreau, University of Connecticut, Big Dipper, Griffin Road, House the Women Built, Margaret Marcus, North America, Old Colonial Road, South Woods, Staten Island New!
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