Through My Binoculars / Durham, Oren C / (HB/1949-1949/B/USED)

*Condition Note: Moderate cover page yellowing. Mild cover wear with spine weakening. Library stamps and stickers.*

The hundreds of young nature lovers who have had the unforgettable privilege of a forest treasure hunt with Open C. Durham, pollen expert of the Abbot Research Laboratories in Chicago, will read this book with happy recollection of hours afield with a man who miles scientific observation with reverence for the divine wisdom that created the marvels of the natural world. Here are windows to wonderland, paths to adventure unlimited, and doorways to understanding of what Brant meant when he pend those memorable lines of his Forest Hymn:

"The groves were God's first temples."

It is a virtual logbook of 20,000 miles of travel through thirty States, a journey in which the author lends the reader his experience, his keen observation and his enthusiasm for God's outdoor pageants in woods and meadows.

Table of Contents

Adventure Unlimited
Snow on the Dinner Table
A Poppy Parable
Meat in Due Season
Cicada Symphony
A Half Hour at the Concert
Skokie Vespers
Forty Feathered Jewels
Warbler Day
Summer Broadcasts From WWBC
A Redwood Sanctuary
Upstairs to Canada
"Giants in the Earth"
Resplendent Venus
Wildlife at Klamath
A Glass Garden
Great Moments With a Great Mountain
Water Above the Firmament
Rivers on End
Conifer Cartoons
Assorted Bird Portraits
Wild Animal Trophies
What's What in Yellowstone
Moods of Great Lake
The Way of an Eagle
Spirals
Island Shores and Long Horizons
Birding in the Sandwich Islands
The Silversword of Haleakala
Wings Across the Map
Wonders in the Heights (poem)

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