Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
written by Tom Wessels, illustrated by Brian D. Cohen

Reading the Forested Landscape is a full and original portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from precolonial days to the present through an examination of the patterns we see today. It teaches us to read a landscape the way we might solve a mystery. Each chapter addresses a form of forest disturbance common in New England - fire, logging, and blight are examples - and depicts it in an extraordinary full-page etching.

"Reading the Forested Landscape deciphers the 'books in brooks' and the 'sermons in stone' that tell the story of how New England was made, from glacier to beaver to plow. No walk throught the woods will ever be the same."
--Sy Montgomery

"This book invites slow and luxurious reading, the rewards of knowing a landscape well, and if not New England forests, then the southwest desert or the midwestern prairie: The principles are the same. Bust most of all, this is a story of home, often fascinating, sometimes familiar, occasionally surprising, the place we know so well but know so little about."
--Ann Zwinger

black & white illustrations

ZN3789    Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History     $18.95

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