Excerpt from At the Foot of the Rainbow Porter. Her fascinating nature work with bird, flower, and moth, and the natural wonders of the Limberlost Swamp, made famous as the scene of her nature romances, all have stirred much curiosity among readers everywhere. Mrs. Porter did not possess what has been called an aptitude for personal publicity. Indeed, up to the pres ent, she has discouraged quite successfully any attempt to stress the personal note. It is practically impossible, however, to do the kind of work she ...
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Excerpt from At the Foot of the Rainbow Porter. Her fascinating nature work with bird, flower, and moth, and the natural wonders of the Limberlost Swamp, made famous as the scene of her nature romances, all have stirred much curiosity among readers everywhere. Mrs. Porter did not possess what has been called an aptitude for personal publicity. Indeed, up to the pres ent, she has discouraged quite successfully any attempt to stress the personal note. It is practically impossible, however, to do the kind of work she has done - to make genuine contributions to natural science by her wonderful field work among birds, insects, and flowers, and then, through her romances, to bring several hundred thousands of people to love and understand nature in a way they never did before - without arousing a legitimate interest in her own history, her ideals, her methods of work, and all that underlies the structure of her unusual achieve ment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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