Donald Culross Peattie (1898–1964)
Autor(a) de A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America
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Obras de Donald Culross Peattie
Flora of the Indiana dunes, a handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the lake Michigan Coast of Indiana and of… (1930) 12 cópias
American heartwood 6 cópias
Sportsman's country 3 cópias
An Almanac for Moderns [selections] 1 exemplar(es)
Benjamin Franklin: Multiple Genius 1 exemplar(es)
Notes on a Bibliography of the Printed Volumes of Donald Culross Peattie and Louis Redfield Peattie (Manuscript with… 1 exemplar(es)
The Story of the Modern Age 1 exemplar(es)
Pearson's Falls Glynn Its Story Its Flora Its Birds 1 exemplar(es)
Bounty of earth 1 exemplar(es)
Lee's Greatest Victory 1 exemplar(es)
A Natural History of Trees of Eastern North America. 1 exemplar(es)
This is Living, a view of nature with photographs 1 exemplar(es)
Glory on the Earth 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Scoundrels & Scalawags: 51 Stories of the Most Fascinating Characters of Hoax and Fraud (1968) — Contribuinte — 53 cópias
Gems from the Reader's Digest — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
The American Mercury. October 1926. v. IX, No. 34 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1898-06-21
- Data de falecimento
- 1964-11-16
- Local de enterro
- Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Venice, Italy
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Educação
- Harvard University (BA|1922)
University of Chicago - Ocupação
- botanist
naturalist
author - Relacionamentos
- Peattie, Roderick (brother)
Peattie, Noel (son)
Peattie, Louise Redfield (spouse)
Peattie, Elia W. (mother) - Organizações
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Washington Star
Reader's Digest - Premiações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1941)
- Pequena biografia
- Scientist, Author. In his era, he was regarded as the most read nature writer in America. In 1922, he graduated as botanist from Harvard University, then did field work in the Southern and Mid-West United States, for the US Department of Agriculture, (1922-24). He was a nature columnist for the Washington Post, (1925-35). As a geographer, he traveled the country, studied the many characteristics of nature and wrote almost forty volumes of his discoveries. Some of his best known books are on North American trees to include “Trees You Want to Know” (1934), “The Road of a Naturalist” (1941), “American Heartwood” (1949), “A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America” (1950) and “A Natural History of Western Trees” (1953). He died at age 66 in Santa Barbara, California.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 39
- Also by
- 12
- Membros
- 1,045
- Popularidade
- #24,651
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Resenhas
- 18
- ISBNs
- 44
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
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All that said, I will suggest that most readers may, after a certain point, do well to focus on the trees in their region or those regions they are likely to visit. Because this is a long book.… (mais)