Bernd Heinrich
Bernd Heinrich is a biologist and author of numerous books on the natural world. He lives in Richmond, VT, and in a cabin in the forests of western Maine.
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Bernd Heinrich is a biologist and author of numerous books on the natural world. He lives in Richmond, VT, and in a cabin in the forests of western Maine.
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A great nature book, well-written, thoughtful, informative and engaging focusing on the cycle of death to life in the natural world.
This is a good book, but for the right person. It will not fit everybody. The author, a naturalist and teacher, spends one year in his cabin in Maine. It is a log cabin that scarcely stays warm. He cuts down trees and chops his lumber. He has no running water. No refrigerator. He is divorced, but hi...
I loved the reproduced journal pages, which were absolutely riveting. Twelve different field notebooks, twelve different ways of seeing the world, twelve different ways of doing science. Brilliant. The text was less interesting. Some of the scientists talked about their own personal journaling proc...
This is another lovely example of Heinrich's fine writing. It covers part of his life that I had already read about in other books of his, but with totally different intriguing facts and stories. When I started to read the book, I had been afraid that he might repeat himself in this book, but there ...
This book is a very clear description of a simply mind-boggling amount of work, and a very impressive background knowledge. I appreciate that making the explanations sound like common sense is a deceptively difficult thing to do. This book certainly makes me want to start watching bumblebees and exa...
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