The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger's subject in prose and drawing. There, 8,300 feet above sea level, summer is short and winter long and often harsh; it is a place where much of life exists on the margin. In good years the grasses are lush; in bad years, even the mice starve. But it is a land the Zwingers have lovingly explored and recorded, careful not to disrupt the balance of the land, the relationship of plant to animal and of each to its environment.These forty acres, called Constant Friendship after the Maryland ...
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The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger's subject in prose and drawing. There, 8,300 feet above sea level, summer is short and winter long and often harsh; it is a place where much of life exists on the margin. In good years the grasses are lush; in bad years, even the mice starve. But it is a land the Zwingers have lovingly explored and recorded, careful not to disrupt the balance of the land, the relationship of plant to animal and of each to its environment.These forty acres, called Constant Friendship after the Maryland land her ancestor settled in the early 1730s, are a place of all seasons, for even in winter there is a promise of spring, and in spring the foretaste of summer. The white of snow becomes the white of summer clouds, the resonant green of spruce becomes the green head of drake mallard ... here part of each season is contained in every other.In beautiful and simple language and with 80 illustrations, Beyond the Aspen Grove tells of meadow, lake, marsh and forest, of algae and dragonflies, of deer and jays that live in the thin clear air of the mountain world.
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Very Good. Ann Zwinger tells in beautiful and simple language, illustrated by her own superb drawings, of forty acres of meadow, lake, marsh and forest in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado-of the algae and dragonflies, of deer and jays that live in the clear air at 8, 300 feet above sea level. Here summer is short and winter long and often harsh, and much of life exists on the margin: in good years the grasses are lush; in bad years even the mice starve. But always it is a place of all seasons.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book New York: Random House, 1970. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Some underlining of text in this book! Gold cloth boards with gold metallic botanical decoration on cover, metallic lettering on spine. Tiny spot of wear to one corner tip. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound-no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with decorated endpapers (very small previous owner name and date at top edge of front free endpaper, tasteful bookplate on half-title page). 367 pages with index. Dust jacket has a few very small edge chips, several short closed edge tears, hint of very light soiling. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Forty acres of land in the Colorado Rockies are the author's subject in prose and drawing. Tells, in beautiful and simple language and drawings, of meadow, lake, marsh and forest, of algae and dragonflies, of deer and jays that live in the thin clear air of the mountain world.
