| | Soldiers Delight Journal: Exploring a Globally Rare Ecosystem (Pittsburgh Series in Nature and Natural History) |  | Author: Jack Wennerstrom
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 6363475
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
ISBN: 0822938707
Dewey Decimal Number: 508.75271
EAN: 9780822938705
ASIN: 0822938707
Publication Date: August 1995
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Product Description
"An artful writer who gracefully mixes science with wonder.... A reflective, descriptive and fact-filled account of one year in the life of a globally rare, 2,000-acre prairie remnant in northwest Baltimore County". The Baltimore Sun
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You read it...you live it April 26, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very detailed look at a beautiful area of the world. The writing makes you feel like you have been there. Lots of research in this one. Relax and enjoy the get-away.
A wonderful portrait of a small ecological niche. February 1, 1997
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Discount this review as you will; I must confess that I've known Jack for a number of years...Nonetheless, it's a beatutiful work. While some reviewers have compared him to Thoreau, I wouldn't go that far. But his love for the small deails of an eccosystm comes through exquisitly. As the title implies, Jack cronicles his frequent trips to Soldiers's Delight, a sort-of protected park near his home. It includes the geologic history of the area, as well as the history of human impact. And does a good job of riding the line between science and simple love for a place on the planet. It's clear to the reader that Jack loves the place, and his detailed, but not judgemental, descriptions of everything from the beauty of salamanders to piles of junk put you there. Maybe Jack isn't the next Thoreau. This book makes me think more of Hemmingway. A sort of restrained exuberance, and an economy of language that takes the reader into a place worth seeing. --del
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