Messages from the Wild: An Almanac of Suburban Natural and Unnatural History

by Frederick R. Gehlbach

Seeking a closer connection with nature than the manicured lawns of suburbia, naturalist Fred Gehlbach and his family built a house on the edge of a wooded ravine in Central Texas in the mid-1960s. On daily walks over the hills, creek hollows, and fields of the ravine, Gehlbach has observed the cycles of weather and seasons, the annual migrations of birds, and the life cycles of animals and plants that also live in the ravine.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292728387
• ISBN13: 9780292728387
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 9.1"

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Book design award winner

Published by University of Texas Press, this book received a book design award at The Rounce & Coffin Club Western Books Exhibition in 2002. Book designer: Heidi Haeuser.