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(More customer reviews)I have enjoyed Mary Holland's blog for quite some time. Her regular pictures and brief write-ups focusing on the natural splendour of Northeastern flora and fauna provide a perfect break between tasks during the hustle of my daily workday in downtown Boston.
This work is an opus of transportive vistas to the natural world that we are both so close to and so distant from. In that regard, I found myself thinking of this work as more of a guidebook to a world many of us have overlooked or as an 'English to Nature' dictionary.
The first copy I ordered is going abroad as a gift to a good friend who just moved from New England to London for work and misses the New England wildlife, while the second is for my own enjoyment (more will likely be coming in the holiday month).
Along with beautiful and remarkable pictures, the book follows a monthly theme and works to capture the most important seasonal aspects for different species. One can easily flip to any page for a brief foray into the natural world, or spend hours starting in the opening 'March' section of Fisher Cat tracks in the spring snow and the plump, emerging Skunk Cabbage and then follow the teeming crescendo of life through the warming Spring months and into summer and beyond.
This is a remarkable collection from a lifetime of patient and open observation of a world many of us feel increasingly distant from. Perfect for those curious by nature.
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