Awards

• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1999
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1999.

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Outstanding academic title Choice 20000101 This is a fascinating book, both as a study of wild orchids and as a study of enthusiasm itself. New York Times Book Review 19981206 It's the best book on native orchids in years. -- John Van de Water Newark Star-Ledger 19990106 Keenen has a gift of putting the reader in the locale with picturesque descriptions. -- Suzanne Hively Cleveland Plain Dealer 19990101 [Keenen] has driven over 100,000 miles ---and walked several hundred more---in pursuit of orchids in their native habitats. Nearly all 145 species native to North America are included in his discussions and photographs. -- Patricia A. Taylor Trenton Times 19990131 An engaging botanical travelog. The descriptions are greatly enhanced by the author's beautifully printed color photographs. A compelling, lively, and engrossing account of a naturalist's passion for a group of hauntingly beautiful and ecologically threatened species ... Highly recommended. -- L. G. Kavaljian Choice 19980501 A beautifully done verbal and visual travelogue on nearly all of the 145 spp./ 35 gen. In 'North America excluding Florida and Mexico' with superb photos and excellent techn. Back matter. Taxon 19990201 The author's knowledge of his subject is indisputably first class, as are his authoring skills but what makes this book stand head and shoulders above the rest are the photographs. One of the best books to come my way in many a long year. Alpine Gardener 19990305 This book is as rare a treasure as the plants it describes. -- Ken Druse House Beautiful 19990501 Philip Keenan's orchid travelog kept me fascinated for hours. Orchids 19990301 This is a joyous book ... Even if your interest in orchids is not profound, it will be deeper and your appreciation of our great land heightened, after reading and enjoying this book. -- John E. Bryan Gardening Newsletter 19981201 In the tradition of John Muir, Keenan shares with readers the pleasure of anticipation and the thrill of discovery. -- Downs Matthews Wildlife Conservations 19990201 Wild Orchids Across North America is that great rarity, a book that is absolutely sui generis. We are treated to Mr Keenan's marvelous descriptions of countryside from California and Arizona to his native New England and to his passionate account of wild orchids. -- Allen Lacy Homeground 19990201 This is story that needs to be told. -- Marty Figley Michigan Observer and Eccentric 19990624 Philip Keenan brings a naturalist's eye to his passion and makes a convincing case for the excitement of the chase for orchids and the need for their conservation. Gardens Illustrated 19990601 A down to earth and personal account of Mr. Keenan's passionate and enthusiastic journey throughout North America in search of these plants. -- Stephen Walker New Hampshire Audubon Society 20000323 A delightful botanical reading adventure. -- Ethel Fried Manchester (CT) Journal Inquirer 20000527 Pick up this book and take a tour of North American orchids while sipping hot tea and curled up with a warm blanket. You'll be transported to various wilderness scenes as I was. The book will cause you to start looking for orchids wherever your path may take you. -- Diana Pederson Suite101.com 20010129 Illustrated by numerous bold-colored and even stunning photographs of various orchid species. Palatka Daily News 20001210 Keenan makes...finding and photographing orchids, sound fun and satisfying in spite of problems with bad roads, heat, humidity, rain, fog, black flies, ticks, and tourists stopping to find out what he's looking at. -- Caroline McCullagh Let's Talk Plants 20040401 If I were to visit the United States or Canada at the right time of year, I should certainly want to take this book with me. As it is, it is a delight for the armchair traveler. -- Isobyl la Croix Orchid Review 20060501

This is a fascinating book, both as a study of wild orchids and as a study of enthusiasm itself. - The New York Times Book Review

Author Information

An inveterate traveler to, and photographer of, wild habitats, Philip E. Keenan crisscrossed the country many times. He was well known for his expertise on birds (particularly his beloved warblers) and wild orchids; his book Wild Orchids Across North America won a Choice magazine award for Outstanding Academic Title in 1999. In his retirement years following a career in retail business, Philip's interest in the sciences led him to become an avid naturalist with a wide range of interests including conservation, birding, geography, meteorology, and horticulture. He contributed dozens of articles to various journals, including Orchids, the journal of the American Orchid Society, in which his photos of wild orchids were a prized regular feature. He was a founding member of the North American Native Orchid Alliance, and a life member and former director of the Audubon Society of New Hampshire. Philip E. Keenan died in 2001 after a brief illness.

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