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100 1 _aHay, John,
_d1915-2011
245 1 0 _aNature's year
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-01
508 _aSteve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Nature's year : The seasons of Cape Cod" by John Hay is a collection of nature essays written in the mid-20th century. Through month-by-month observations on Cape Cod, the work blends close natural history with reflective meditation on weather, wildlife, and the uneasy overlap between human bustle and the living shore. Expect vivid portraits of birds, insects, tides, and woods as the seasons turn, with themes of migration, adaptation, and attention. The opening of this work follows July through late October as the narrator arrives amid summer traffic and tragedy, then retreats to a hilltop home to attune himself to the Cape’s microclimates and small lives—from a wood peewee’s hunting and periwinkles on tidal rocks to a moon snail’s drill and an afternoon under sail. August dwells on insect abundance and night music (including the temperature-telling snowy tree cricket), a companionable walk with an oven bird, and a wind-swept visit to Crow Pasture where a crippled gull and vigilant terns frame lessons in necessity. Detailed scenes at Paine’s Creek and Monomoy show young terns learning to fish and gather for migration, alongside shorebirds busy on the flats, while September’s clear winds, alewife fry, and dispersing fledglings replace the departing tourists. October turns inward to questions of home and navigation, a venerable box turtle, first frosts, teaching children on a shore ramble, and the season’s colors—mushrooms, Indian pipes, and reddening oaks—before colder winds, squirrels, and shrews signal the harsher change ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cGarden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961
653 _aNatural history -- Outdoor books
653 _aNatural history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod
700 1 _aGrose, David,
_d1922-2016
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76613
999 _c117338
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