Soldiers Delight Journal: Exploring a Globally Rare Ecosystem (Pittsburgh Series in Nature and Natural History)

By Jack Wennerstrom

In this journal, the author describes his year-long walking adventures at the Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, a rare prairie remnant just seven miles northwest of Baltimore, Maryland. In his quest to make this wild place his \u201cnatural home\u201d throughout the course of four distinct seasons, Wennerstrom examines and contemplates rocks and minerals, plants, animals, prairies, floodplains, woodlands, lakes, ponds, pastures, mines and mills, Indian artifacts, as well as local legends and folklore.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822938707
• ISBN13: 9780822938705
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.5"