Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1898-06-21
Data di morte: 1964-11-16
Luogo di sepoltura: Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Luogo di morte: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Luogo di residenza: New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Venice, Italy
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Istruzione: Harvard University (BA|1922)
University of Chicago
Attività lavorative: botanist
naturalist
author
Relazioni: Peattie, Roderick (brother)
Peattie, Noel (son)
Peattie, Louise Redfield (spouse)
Peattie, Elia W. (mother)
Organizzazioni: U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Washington Star
Reader's Digest
Premi e riconoscimenti: American Academy of Arts and Letters (1941)
Breve biografia: 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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A Natural History of North American Trees (Donald… di Donald Culross Peattie

This book is a variety of books in one: American history; industrial forestry guide; naturalist's field guide; and nature appreciation. I finished the entire book in order to savor the lattermost kind. Peattie's prose is obviously the product of an earlier time; earlier even than the early 1950s in which he originally published this work. I knew within a few chapters that this book would be something I would likely turn to in future years to replenish an appreciation for the trees themselves and for Peattie's prosecraft.
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.… (altro)

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Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |

Flowering Earth di Donald Culross Peattie

Another rhapsodic book by [a:Donald Culross Peattie|651969|Donald Culross Peattie|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png], one of my favorite authors. While I thoroughly enjoyed "Flowering Earth", I believe others of his books are better reading. But I would never discourage anyone from reading this.
Of course, it should be noted that this was originally published in 1939 and some of the science is dated. But not so much as to interfere with my enjoyment of Peattie's prose.… (altro)

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Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |

A Book of Hours (Donald Culross Peattie Library) di Donald Culross Peattie

If you are fortunate, you will encounter over the span of your literate life a few authors whose style cause you to catch your breath, and whose chosen subjects give you pause to reflect or to stand upon a sudden new horizon of perception. [a:Donald Culross Peattie|651969|Donald Culross Peattie|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] is just such a one for me. Many of his works, such as this one, are to be savored slowly and in small portion. For to rush through them is to perhaps rob yourself of some golden time in contemplation.
[It must be acknowledged that Peattie shared in the casual racism and sexism of his time. (This book was published in 1937.) These seeped occasionally into his writing, and I do not wish to minimize either problem. But as Peattie says in the final chapter of A Book of Hours, "[M]an is not a fallen angel. But he may just possibly be on the evolutionary road toward angelic transmutation." I choose to believe that had Peattie lived longer, he might well have surmounted these attitudinal shortcomings.]… (altro)

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The Road of a Naturalist (Donald Culross Peattie… di Donald Culross Peattie

If you are lucky, over the course of your life you will find a handful of writers whose style and subject fit you, embrace you, lift you up. Peattie is just such a one for me. This volume is part natural history, part memoire, wholly enjoyable.

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