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The clerk of the woods

Title

The clerk of the woods

By

Torrey, Bradford, 1843-1912

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903

Notes

"The chapters in this book were written week by week for simultaeous publication in

"The chapters in this book were written week by week for simultaneous publication in the ʻEvening transcript' of Boston and the ʻMail and express' of New York ..." - Prefatory note.

Includes index.

Contents: A short month -- A full migration -- A favorite round -- In the Cambridge swamp -- A quiet afternoon -- Popular woodpeckers -- Late summer notes -- Wood silence -- Southward bound -- Four dreamers -- A day in Franconia -- With the waders -- On the North Shore again -- Autumnal moralities -- A text from Thoreau -- The pleasures of melancholy -- In the old paths -- The prosperity of a walk -- Signs of spring -- Old colony berry pastures -- Squirrels, foxes, and others -- Winter as it was -- "Down at the store" -- Birds at the window -- A good-by to winter -- Bird songs and bird talk -- Chipmunks, bluebirds, and robins -- March swallows -- Woodcock vespers -- Under April clouds -- Flying squirrels and spade-foot frogs -- The warblers are coming.

Collection of nature essays in the vein of Thoreau, Muir and Burroughs. -- vendor's description.