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The Clerk of the Woods

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The Clerk of the Woods

Bradford Torrey

189 pages~3 hr 46 min read37 chapters$4.99
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Bradford Torrey kept the woods the way a clerk keeps accounts, noting every migration and mood. His essays follow a full bird migration, favorite haunts, a Cambridge swamp, and the popular woodpeckers, all in graceful, unhurried prose. Companionable nature writing of the finest New England kind. Take a slow walk with a patient watcher of the woods.

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37 chapters

  1. 1THE CLERK OF THE WOODS
  2. 2PREFATORY NOTE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4A SHORT MONTH
  5. 5A FULL MIGRATION
  6. 6A FAVORITE ROUND
  7. 7IN THE CAMBRIDGE SWAMP
  8. 8A QUIET AFTERNOON
  9. 9POPULAR WOODPECKERS
  10. 10LATE SUMMER NOTES
  11. 11WOOD SILENCE
  12. 12SOUTHWARD BOUND
  13. 13FOUR DREAMERS
  14. 14A DAY IN FRANCONIA
  15. 15WITH THE WADERS
  16. 16ON THE NORTH SHORE AGAIN
  17. 17AUTUMNAL MORALITIES
  18. 18A TEXT FROM THOREAU

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