Burroughs follows the seasons around his country home in the Hudson valley and the Catskills, from a snowstorm and the birds and animals that visit in winter to the first relish of spring, April, birch browsings and a bunch of herbs. This edition opens with Clifton Johnson’s biographical sketch of the naturalist’s farm boyhood in Roxbury.
A gathering of Burroughs’s essays for anyone who likes nature writing that is plain, observant and warm. Download the free EPUB.