Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town PDF
Preview Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town
Settled in the Wild ALSO BY Susan Hand Shetterly ESSAYS The New Year’s Owl BOOKS FOR CHILDREN The Dwarf-Wizard of Uxmal Raven’s Light Muwin and the Magic Hare Shelterwood The Tinker of Salt Cove Settled in the Wild Notes from the Edge of Town Susan Hand Shetterly Published by ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL Post Office Box 2225 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515-2225 a division of WORKMAN PUBLISHING 225 Varick Street New York, New York 10014 © 2010 by Susan Hand Shetterly. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited. Design by Anne Winslow. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shetterly, Susan Hand, [date] Settled in the wild : notes from the edge of town / Susan Hand Shetterly.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-56512-618-3 1. Natural history—Maine—Anecdotes. 2. Wildlife watching—Maine—Anecdotes. I. Title. QH105.M2S54 2010 508.741—dc22 2009030802 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition For Margot and Dan— in admiration What must a man do to be at home in the world? There must be times when he is here as though absent, gone beyond words into the woven shadows of the grass and the flighty darknesses of leaves shaking in the wind … from “The Silence” by Wendell Berry Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART ONE 1. April Nights 2. Going Back to the Land 3. Walking at Dusk 4. Sonny’s Song 5. Dangers 6. The Inward Eye 7. Elvers 8. Eden 9. Treasure 10. Chac PART TWO 11. A Point of View 12. The Gift 13. Alewives 14. The Alder Patch 15. Country Road 16. Letting Summer Go 17. Knowing Things 18. Tree 19. Big Fish 20. Ice 21. Trapped 22. Neighborhood Deer 23. Jed Island 24. Cormorants 25. Rain 26. The Fire and the Owl EPILOGUE
Description:The list of books you might like
