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This book forms the third part in author Edwin Way Teale's popular series of four books on The American Seasons.Following on from North With the Spring (1951), the story of a 17,000-mile journey, keeping pace with the advance of spring up the North American map, and Autumn Across America (1956), an adventurous, wandering, 20,000-mile journey from Cape Cod to California through the most colorful season of the year, Journey Into Summer takes the reader from northern New England along the shore show more of the Great Lakes, south through the corn country and into the high Rocky Mountains, for another 19,000 miles of nature exploration through the American summer. show lessTags
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Uniform with North with the spring, Autumn across America, and Wandering through winter
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- Canonical title
- Journey Into Summer
- Alternate titles
- Journey Into Summer: A Naturalist's Record of a 19,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Summer
- Original publication date
- 1960
- Dedication
- Dedicated to David who traveled with us in our hearts
- First words
- Down the long drop of the mountainside Lafayette Brook trailed the white thread of its foaming waters.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In the silence of that star-filled night, the great summer of our lives had ended.
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- Science & Nature, Nonfiction, Travel, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 574.973 — Natural sciences & mathematics Biology [Formerly: Physiological and Structural Biology] By Location North America United States
- LCC
- QH104 .T39 — Science Natural history – Biology Natural history (General) General
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- 279
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 12
