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A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm

A book about a time gone by, about family, about growing up — storytelling and descriptive nature writing at its best.

In A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm, Edwin Way Teale gives us not only his most personal writing but some of his finest. Considered by many to be his greatest book, it is as relevant today as when it was first published.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 306 pages

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