Paula Whyman

Bad Naturalist

One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"With humor, humility, and awe, one woman attempts to restore 200 acres of farmland long gone-to-seed in the Blue Ridge Mountains, facing her own limitations while getting to know a breathtaking corner of the natural world."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Timber Press (OR)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781643262178
• ISBN-10: 1643262173
• Artikelnr.: 70699644

Autorenporträt

Paula Whyman is the author of Bad Naturalist and a finalist for the Philip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award. Her writing has appeared in  The Washington Post and The American Scholar, and in journals including  McSweeney’s Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and The Hudson Review. Her earlier book, You May See a Stranger, is an award-winning linked short story collection. She has been in residence at MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA, The Studios of Key West, and Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Her work on this book was supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council. She spends her time on a mountain in Virginia with her husband and a mercurial standard poodle. You can find her at paulawhyman.com, and keep up with news from the mountain via her Bad Naturalist newsletter.