Description
Second printing. Signed on the half-title page and dated 1970. Uncommon signed. Her fourth book, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1969. Essays set at her remote homeat Pimisi Bay, near Mattawa, Ontario, the book is ""notable not only for the meticulous precision of [her] descriptions of feeding, flight, nesting, and migration habits of the regions birds, but also or her quietly lyrical reverence for life in all its forms and processes. de Kiriline Lawrence is often referred to as ""Canada's Rachel Carson."" Born in Sweden to a naturalist father, she was originally a nurse and emigrated to Canada after the death of her first husband, a soldier executed in Russia during WWI (she went to Russia as a nurse to search for him). After famously nursing the Dionne quintuplets (the first quintuplets known to survive, and the subject of her first book), she left nursing to live in a cabin in Ontario, where she took up writing. She was a decorated ornithologist and became the first Canadian woman to be elected a member of the American Ornithologist Union (AOU). Green cloth boards with a blue clothspine, gilt lettering to spine. Near fine with a little bumping to spine ends. In a very good jacket with some loss to spine ends and sporadic wear to edges, a few short tears, the largest to lower corner of rear panel.
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