Wandering Through Winter

Wandering Through Winter

"Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter" is a non-fiction book written by Edwin Way Teale, published in 1965 by Dodd, Mead and Company, and winner of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.cite web | title = Book list | work = | publisher =National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped | date = | url =http://www.loc.gov/nls/catalogs/cassette/1993/nonfict.txt | format =web | doi = | accessdate = 2008-02-27] cite web | title =Science Reference Guides | work = | publisher = The Library of Congress | date =2006 | url =http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/nature.html | format =web | doi = | accessdate = 2008-02-27 ] cite web | title =The Pulitzer Prize | work = | publisher =pulitzer.org | date = | url =http://www.pulitzer.org/ | format =web | doi = | accessdate = 2008-02-27 ] The book was republished in 1990 by St Martin's Press. [cite book |author=Teale, Edwin Way |title=Wandering through winter: a naturalist's record of a 20, 000-mile journey through the North American winter |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |year=1990 |pages= |isbn=0-312-04458-5 |oclc= |doi= |isbn=0312044585] This book documents the travels of a naturalist and his wife, Nellie I. Tealecite web | last =Howe | first =Marvine | title = Nellie I. Teale, 92; Naturalist Assisted In Acclaimed Books | work = Obituary | publisher =New York Times | date =July 21, 1993 | url =http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7DB153CF932A15754C0A965958260 | format =web | doi = | accessdate = 2008-02-27 ] who spent four winter months traveling twenty thousand miles across the southwestern United States and parts of the Midwest, ending in northeastern Maine. He reports on the people, plants, animals, and birds they encountered.cite web | title =Recommended reading list | work = | publisher =Missouri State Government Web | date =2006 | url =http://www.sos.mo.gov/wolfner/bibliographies/wintertales.asp | format =web | doi = | accessdate = 2008-02-27 ] It is the final volume in his natural history of the four seasons in North America; a 76,000 miles journey over 15 years, which began with "North with the Spring", "Journey Into Summer", and "Autumn Across America". [ [http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9503535 Edwin Way Teale Biography (1899–1980)] at biography.com]

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