Soldiers Delight Journal: Exploring a Globally Rare Ecosystem (Pittsburgh Series in Nature and Natural History) - Hardcover
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In this journal, the author describes his year-long walking adventures at the Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, a rare prairie remnant just seven miles northwest of Baltimore, Maryland. In his quest to make this wild place his \u201cnatural home\u201d throughout the course of four distinct seasons, Wennerstrom examines and contemplates rocks and minerals, plants, animals, prairies, floodplains, woodlands, lakes, ponds, pastures, mines and mills, Indian artifacts, as well as local legends and folklore.
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Jack Wennerstrom is a freelance writer and naturalist. He is the author of several books including Leaning Sycamores: Natural Worlds of the Upper Potomac.
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Soldiers Delight Journal: Exploring a Globally Rare Ecosystem (Pittsburgh Series in Nature and Natural History)
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Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt), 1995
ISBN 10: 0822938707
ISBN 13: 9780822938705
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Seller: Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA, Sykesville, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Fine hardcover, University of Pittsburgh Press. No DJ as issued. Fullbound green cloth boards, with gilt lettering to spine and front panel. Inscribed and signed ("To GEORGIA - Jack Wennerstrom") on the half title page. Foreward by Roger Tory Peterson, illustrations by Sandy Glover. Examines the special beauty and unique ecosystem of the serpentine barrens known as Soldier's Delight, located in Baltimore County, Maryland. In twelve chapters, one for each month of the year. 247 pages, with an Appendix, Bibliography and Index. Signed. Seller Inventory # 001399