Summer Nature

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Summer is approaching, and what’s better than spending it outside in nature? Prepare for your holidays with 10 gems from our catalog.

The Turquoise Story Book is a treasure trove for all things summer and nature related. Find it in 101 stories, legends, and poems carefully selected by Ada and Eleanor Skinner.

Great preparation is also the handbook On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls by Lina and Adelia Beard, co-founders of the first American girls scouting group. Learn about trailing, camping, encounters with animals…

Enos A. Mills had plenty of experience with all of this. He describes his trips in and up the Colorado mountains in The Adventures of a Nature Guide, and was instrumental in the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Jules Michelet may have had similar intentions when he penned his book La mer in the 19th century. It is one of the first treatises on ecology and promotes the protection of the oceans.

A Girl of the Limberlost, Elnora Comstock, never dreamed that her beloved Indiana swamp could disappear. The novel by Gene Stratton-Porter is about her yearning for education and love.

Walter Gregory, sick from his fast-paced Wall Street job, wasn’t looking for love when he returned to his home in the country. But there, he meets Annie Walton… Find out what happens next in the novel Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward P. Roe.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream definitely has a happy ending – it wouldn’t be a Shakespeare comedy otherwise. It doesn’t start out well, though, when two lovers flee to a forest where they encounter a quarrelling fairy king and queen…

The opposite is true for the scientists sent to Veridis, The Green World, who aim to discover the secret of its accelerated evolution. But it is dangerous and lurks deep within the planet in the story by Hal Clement.

Oh yes, nature can be very dangerous. Robert W. Chambers‘ masterful use of nature imagery brings The Mystery of Choice – a collection of 8 horror stories – to life, or rather: death.

While the Great Lakes in Ontario certainly hold their own mysteries, William Campbell prefers to stay on their surface. His Lake Lyrics and Other Poems collects 67 pieces on the natural beauty of the area.

Enjoy – and don’t let Mother Nature waiting!

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