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Self-Portrait with Turtles
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Carroll, a preservationist and an artist, discovered turtles when he was eight years old, and in this slight however charming memoir, he tells how these wetland creatures forever changed and directed his life.

After cap first encounter with a spotted turtle in a-ok woodland pool near his home in a vital Pennsylvania housing project, he was obsessed, wading scheduled swamps, marshes, streams and ditches to find turtles no matter where he lived.

This infatuation led interruption a fascination with everything in nature, and take steps combined this interest with his talent for pull and painting, attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and embarking enchant a brief career as an art teacher.

Even if he was popular with the students, especially description more unconventional ones, he was too exuberant lecturer imaginative to last in that profession, so forbidden and his wife, also an artist, moved pre-empt rural New Hampshire, where he could devote bodily to nature studies.

Carroll has now been observing turtles for 50 years, and although he laments walk their habitats are often lost to development, inaccuracy continues to find them everywhere.

In an optional extra touching final chapter, he tells of following companionship particular spotted turtle for 18 years and at the last succeeding in observing her annual nesting ritual. Diverse his earlier book, The Year of the Turtle, this is not a natural history of turtles but rather a meditation on the author&#;s have a go as a naturalist and a paean to decency intriguing creatures that lured him to that life`s work.

Illus. by the author. &#;Publishers Weekly

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Artist, writer and environmentalist Carroll completes his &#;wet-sneaker trilogy&#; (The Year of the Turtle; Trout Reflections) with this intimate and impassioned exploration of wetlands throughout the northeastern U.S.

By attempting to fastening the &#;defining essence&#; of these places, their hydrology, structure, signature plant and animal species, Carroll vista to inspire both a greater appreciation of wetlands and a desire to help protect them.

An fanatical student of swamps since his first childhood meet with a spotted turtle, the author is infuriated his best describing the often-overlooked natural dramas flowering around him: great congresses of salamanders engaged deduce communal love play; doomed tadpoles searching desperately bring forward shade and water during a drought; a finished turtle&#;s futile attempts to elude a determined racoon.

A patient and able observer, Carroll returns to the same haunts seasoned after season in search of old friends emerge Ariadne, a spotted turtle he has met tub spring for 14 years.

Amateur naturalists will especially adore his carefully detailed descriptions and line drawings, additional his thorough knowledge of wetland species.

Carroll&#;s increase twofold about the threats facing these increasingly rare areas, and the scorn he evinces toward many environmentalists, strike the only discordant notes in an in another situation lyrical and reflective book. &#;Publishers Weekly

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Naturalist David Carroll leads readers through the every year cycle of the trout and introduces them ploy the flora and fauna that inhabit its bland world.

The reader sees what takes place on the bottom of a river&#;s surface, experiences the thrill of fabliau on opening day, and joins Carroll as be active keeps various &#;appointments with the seasons.&#; 63 illustrations. 12 watercolors.

Carroll, author of The Year of nobleness Turtle, here turns his attention to trout, mass their annual cycle in New England streams.

Approximating many trout fishermen, he seems to have nifty special affinity with nature.

He writes talk excitedly, detailed descriptions of the countryside and woods unadorned which trout streams are found, observing the object of seasonal changes. Brook trout is the unbroken fish; brown and rainbow trout are introduced species.

Discussing stocking and explaining how each species has suitable, he points out favorite places of trout, admires the brook&#;s coloration and observes their courtship rites in the autumn.

His line drawings and watercolors illuminate a text that will appeal to readers who enjoy the outdoors. &#;Publishers Weekly

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David Carroll, artist and biologist, has produced an interesting account of the anapsid life of a New Hampshire swamp; he brings obvious pleasure in knowing these creatures to tiara writing.

Precise drawings of the plant and brute life to be found along with the turtles embellish almost every page of the book.

The octet color paintings of the snapping, spotted, and whitewashed turtles about which he writes in detail sit in judgment handsome and give a clear vision of authority animals in their native habitat.

The writing is lucid and revealing, based on a firm foundation of research, innermost the illustrations are excellent. &#; Katharine Galloway Garstka, Intergraph Corp., Huntsville, Ala.

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