Eight of Burroughs’s essays about the mountains where he grew up: winter tracks in “The Snow-Walkers”, a red fox on a white day, farm life in the old days, birds in the hemlocks, birds’ nests, a walk into the heart of the southern Catskills, speckled trout and a night on a bed of boughs.
A fine single-volume sampler of America’s best-loved nature writer, chosen around one beloved landscape. Download the free EPUB.