Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town

by Susan Hand Shetterly

Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land--observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes, but also snowshoe hares, raccoons, bobcats, turtles, salmon, ravens, hummingbirds, cormorants, sandpipers, and spring peepers). She expertly shows us how they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565126181
• ISBN13: 9781565126183
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Cramped in my office no more

This book will take you away for awhile to our natural birthright of nature. Susan Hand Shetterly writes so clearly and with such heart that the reader feels like they’ve gone into the forest for a little while.