{"product_id":"9781605712147","title":"Traveling with Teale","description":"Captain John Smith's 1616 book A Description of New England implied that an entrepreneur at trade could make a fortune over here from the American natural riches and the homeowner need never want, with enough left over to send back to England and sell there. So a minor initial investment could lead to riches or at least a self-sustaining comfortable life style. And you could do it all practically by yourself. \u003cbr\u003e Thus the nature of America was viewed as a business venture. But by the time of Henry David Thoreau nature was met on different terms. He had met winter here, for instance, and perhaps his best expression of it is found not in the book Walden but in his essay A Winter Walk. Emerson published it in his magazine Dial. Perhaps the finest nature essay until then, the piece has a firmly established introduction and conclusion, and moves smoothly throughout as it moves from morning to evening. Here I will pick up a few lines of the beginning, which moves you easily into partnership with him:\u003cbr\u003e The wind has gently murmured through the blinds, or puffed with feathery softness against the windows, and occasionally sighed like a summer zephyr lifting the leaves along, the livelong night. \u003cbr\u003e In our time nature continues to be a living world which we belong in, and so in this book Travelling With Teale you are taken on a contemporary journey with Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalist Edwin Way Teale, hearing from him along the way, especially as he portrayed it in his book North With the Spring and in his journals, diaries, and notes.\u003cbr\u003e Teale and his wife Nellie sought and found a \"rendezvous with a season\" by travelling up the eastern coast of the United States during spring. Travelling With Teale takes you over all four seasons going north to south. And you will meet some other naturalists along the way. Most of all you will find here a long home, with places and companions pointed out and suggestions of others to look for yourself.","brand":"Northshire Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031378378992,"sku":"9781605712147","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781605712147_p0.jpg?v=1763834803","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781605712147","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}