I felt I was being tutored by someone with an exceptionally keen understanding of nature and peoples relationship with it. The history of our understanding of the Pitcher Plant was especially fascinating. Other highlights for me were her explanation of the ecology of the sand dunes and the bogs, plus the poor plight of "The Stylish House". I did lose some of my momentum as a reader as she traveled from the eastern United States to the western, but was picked back up as she entered the Redwoods. It would be really exciting if some top notch ecologist were to pick up her book, write a new introduction, do a few more revisits and tastefully splice some high quality photography here and there. ( )