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"""Bernd Heinrich is one of our greatest living naturalists in the tradition of Gerald Durrell....A national treasure.""--Los Angeles Times Summer World is an intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in the Summer months from Bernd Heinrich, bestselling author of Winter World and ""our latter-day Thoreau"" (Publishers Weekly). Pulitzer Prize-winner Edmond O. Wilson (On Human Nature) calls Heinrich's fascinating exploration and appreciation of the natural order a, ""lovely book, meticulously etched and based on impassioned but exacting scientific research,"" while the New York Times Book Review raves, ""Animals come to life in gripping detail...and so does Heinrich.... The man is irrepressible."""

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This is hands-and-knees science at its most engaging...as the great greening occurs all around us, we can only hope to see half as much as Heinrich does. -- Anthony Doerr, Boston Globe

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BERND HEINRICH is an acclaimed scientist and the author of numerous books, including the best-selling Winter World, Mind of the Raven, Why We Run, The Homing Instinct, and One Wild Bird at a Time. Among Heinrich's many honors is the 2013 PEN New England Award in nonfiction for Life Everlasting. He resides in Maine.

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