Island Year - 9780295951713

Island YearAuthor(s): Hazel Heckman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295951713, 978-0295951713\nSynopsis\nIn her first book, Island in the Sound, Heckman brought to life Anderson Island in Puget Sound, its people, its history, and its sadly vanishing way of life. Now, in this book, she brings the same clarity of vision, warmth, and insight to the natural life of her island, recording the cycle of the seasons as an appreciative and articulate observer.\n\nThis is a diary of the natural world where the same things happen again and again but are always new. Each month brings surprises, expected or not: the blossoming of the wild red flower currant in March, the appearance of a pod of killer whales in July. Mrs. Heckmans gift to the reader, as in all of the best nature writing, is to let us see it through her eyes, as if never seen before.\n\nBut the developers have arrived, and the natural .