Donald Culross Peattie (1898–1964)
Auteur de A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America
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Œuvres de Donald Culross Peattie
Flora of the Indiana dunes, a handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the lake Michigan Coast of Indiana and of… (1930) 12 exemplaires
American heartwood 6 exemplaires
Sportsman's country 3 exemplaires
Lives Of Destiny: As Told for The Reader's Digest 3 exemplaires
An Almanac for Moderns [selections] 1 exemplaire
Benjamin Franklin: Multiple Genius 1 exemplaire
Notes on a Bibliography of the Printed Volumes of Donald Culross Peattie and Louis Redfield Peattie (Manuscript with… 1 exemplaire
The Story of the Modern Age 1 exemplaire
Pearson's Falls Glynn Its Story Its Flora Its Birds 1 exemplaire
Bounty of earth 1 exemplaire
Lee's Greatest Victory 1 exemplaire
A Natural History of Trees of Eastern North America. 1 exemplaire
This is Living, a view of nature with photographs 1 exemplaire
Glory on the Earth 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Scoundrels & Scalawags: 51 Stories of the Most Fascinating Characters of Hoax and Fraud (1968) — Contributeur — 53 exemplaires
Gems from the Reader's Digest — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
The American Mercury. October 1926. v. IX, No. 34 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1898-06-21
- Date de décès
- 1964-11-16
- Lieu de sépulture
- Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Venice, Italy
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Études
- Harvard University (BA|1922)
University of Chicago - Professions
- botanist
naturalist
author - Relations
- Peattie, Roderick (brother)
Peattie, Noel (son)
Peattie, Louise Redfield (spouse)
Peattie, Elia W. (mother) - Organisations
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Washington Star
Reader's Digest - Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1941)
- Courte biographie
- Scientist, Author. In his era, he was regarded as the most read nature writer in America. In 1922, he graduated as botanist from Harvard University, then did field work in the Southern and Mid-West United States, for the US Department of Agriculture, (1922-24). He was a nature columnist for the Washington Post, (1925-35). As a geographer, he traveled the country, studied the many characteristics of nature and wrote almost forty volumes of his discoveries. Some of his best known books are on North American trees to include “Trees You Want to Know” (1934), “The Road of a Naturalist” (1941), “American Heartwood” (1949), “A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America” (1950) and “A Natural History of Western Trees” (1953). He died at age 66 in Santa Barbara, California.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 39
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 1,045
- Popularité
- #24,651
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 18
- ISBN
- 44
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 2
All that said, I will suggest that most readers may, after a certain point, do well to focus on the trees in their region or those regions they are likely to visit. Because this is a long book.… (plus d'informations)