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Donald Culross Peattie (1898–1964)

Författare till A Natural History of Trees: of Eastern and Central North America

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Verk av Donald Culross Peattie

An Almanac for Moderns (1935) 77 exemplar
Flowering Earth (1939) 65 exemplar
The Rainbow Book of Nature (1957) 59 exemplar
Audubon's America (1940) 59 exemplar
The road of a naturalist (1941) 48 exemplar
Trees you want to know (1934) 44 exemplar
A prairie grove (1938) 27 exemplar
A Book of Hours (1937) 24 exemplar
Immortal Village (1945) 22 exemplar
Journey into America (1943) 21 exemplar
Forward the Nation (1942) 12 exemplar
A Cup of Sky (1950) 9 exemplar
Parade with banners (1944) 6 exemplar
American heartwood 6 exemplar
The story of the middle ages (1937) 3 exemplar
Diversions of the Field (2013) 2 exemplar
Cargoes and Harvests (2013) 2 exemplar
Immortal Village 1 exemplar
A Child's Story of the World (1937) 1 exemplar
Bounty of earth 1 exemplar
Glory on the Earth 1 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
Peattie, Donald Culross
Födelsedag
1898-06-21
Avled
1964-11-16
Begravningsplats
Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Kön
male
Nationalitet
United States of America
Födelseort
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dödsort
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Bostadsorter
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Venice, Italy
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Utbildning
Harvard University (BA|1922)
University of Chicago
Yrken
botanist
naturalist
author
Relationer
Peattie, Roderick (brother)
Peattie, Noel (son)
Peattie, Louise Redfield (spouse)
Peattie, Elia W. (mother)
Organisationer
U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Washington Star
Reader's Digest
Priser och utmärkelser
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1941)
Kort biografi
Scientist, Author. In his era, he was regarded as the most read nature writer in America. In 1922, he graduated as botanist from Harvard University, then did field work in the Southern and Mid-West United States, for the US Department of Agriculture, (1922-24). He was a nature columnist for the Washington Post, (1925-35). As a geographer, he traveled the country, studied the many characteristics of nature and wrote almost forty volumes of his discoveries. Some of his best known books are on North American trees to include “Trees You Want to Know” (1934), “The Road of a Naturalist” (1941), “American Heartwood” (1949), “A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America” (1950) and “A Natural History of Western Trees” (1953). He died at age 66 in Santa Barbara, California.

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This book is a variety of books in one: American history; industrial forestry guide; naturalist's field guide; and nature appreciation. I finished the entire book in order to savor the lattermost kind. Peattie's prose is obviously the product of an earlier time; earlier even than the early 1950s in which he originally published this work. I knew within a few chapters that this book would be something I would likely turn to in future years to replenish an appreciation for the trees themselves and for Peattie's prosecraft.
All that said, I will suggest that most readers may, after a certain point, do well to focus on the trees in their region or those regions they are likely to visit. Because this is a long book.
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Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
Another rhapsodic book by [a:Donald Culross Peattie|651969|Donald Culross Peattie|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png], one of my favorite authors. While I thoroughly enjoyed "Flowering Earth", I believe others of his books are better reading. But I would never discourage anyone from reading this.
Of course, it should be noted that this was originally published in 1939 and some of the science is dated. But not so much as to interfere with my enjoyment of Peattie's prose.… (mer)
 
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Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
If you are fortunate, you will encounter over the span of your literate life a few authors whose style cause you to catch your breath, and whose chosen subjects give you pause to reflect or to stand upon a sudden new horizon of perception. [a:Donald Culross Peattie|651969|Donald Culross Peattie|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] is just such a one for me. Many of his works, such as this one, are to be savored slowly and in small portion. For to rush through them is to perhaps rob yourself of some golden time in contemplation.
[It must be acknowledged that Peattie shared in the casual racism and sexism of his time. (This book was published in 1937.) These seeped occasionally into his writing, and I do not wish to minimize either problem. But as Peattie says in the final chapter of A Book of Hours, "[M]an is not a fallen angel. But he may just possibly be on the evolutionary road toward angelic transmutation." I choose to believe that had Peattie lived longer, he might well have surmounted these attitudinal shortcomings.]
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Treebeard_404 | 1 annan recension | Jan 23, 2024 |
If you are lucky, over the course of your life you will find a handful of writers whose style and subject fit you, embrace you, lift you up. Peattie is just such a one for me. This volume is part natural history, part memoire, wholly enjoyable.
 
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Recensioner
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ISBN
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