nature book

Capt Humphries had borrowed the nature book for his daughter Anne, who died recently, and was supposed to return it on 11 October 1938.

Well, library day has come, and my daughter has brought home one book with all white characters; one book with white main characters and a Black sidekick character; and a non-fiction nature book.

There is a genuine buzz around his debut, a combination of nature book and memoir, a warm portrait of a close-knit family and a coming-of-age story.

The water in the Potomac today is much cleaner than it was in 1947, when Louis Halle wrote his classic nature book “Spring in Washington.”

Or—he remembered something he’d read in a nature book—maybe he was like the prey of a snake that hypnotized its victims before it ate them.