Donald Culross Peattie (1898–1964)
Teoksen A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America tekijä
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Flora of the Indiana dunes, a handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the lake Michigan Coast of Indiana and of… (1930) 12 kappaletta
American heartwood 6 kappaletta
Sportsman's country 3 kappaletta
Lives Of Destiny: As Told for The Reader's Digest 3 kappaletta
An Almanac for Moderns [selections] 1 kappale
Benjamin Franklin: Multiple Genius 1 kappale
The Story of the Modern Age 1 kappale
Bounty of earth 1 kappale
Lee's Greatest Victory 1 kappale
Glory on the Earth 1 kappale
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The American Mercury. October 1926. v. IX, No. 34 — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1898-06-21
- Kuolinaika
- 1964-11-16
- Hautapaikka
- Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Venice, Italy
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Koulutus
- Harvard University (BA|1922)
University of Chicago - Ammatit
- botanist
naturalist
author - Suhteet
- Peattie, Roderick (brother)
Peattie, Noel (son)
Peattie, Louise Redfield (spouse)
Peattie, Elia W. (mother) - Organisaatiot
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Washington Star
Reader's Digest - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1941)
- Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Scientist, Author. In his era, he was regarded as the most read nature writer in America. In 1922, he graduated as botanist from Harvard University, then did field work in the Southern and Mid-West United States, for the US Department of Agriculture, (1922-24). He was a nature columnist for the Washington Post, (1925-35). As a geographer, he traveled the country, studied the many characteristics of nature and wrote almost forty volumes of his discoveries. Some of his best known books are on North American trees to include “Trees You Want to Know” (1934), “The Road of a Naturalist” (1941), “American Heartwood” (1949), “A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America” (1950) and “A Natural History of Western Trees” (1953). He died at age 66 in Santa Barbara, California.
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All that said, I will suggest that most readers may, after a certain point, do well to focus on the trees in their region or those regions they are likely to visit. Because this is a long book.… (lisätietoja)