Julie Dunlap

I Begin with Spring weaves natural history around the life and times of Henry David Thoreau in a richly illustrated field notebook format that can be opened anywhere and invites browsing on every page. Beginning each season with quotes from Thoreau's schoolboy essay about the changing seasons, this book follows him through the fields and woods of Concord, the joys and challenges of growing up, his experiment with simple living on Walden Pond, and...

Tells the story of one of America's natural history heroes, John Muir, and how a trusting dog changed his life.