Thornapples

by Fergus, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780811729468
• ISBN10: 081172946X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Stackpole Books

Summary

For years, Charles Fergus chronicled his outdoor activities in the Pennsylvania Game News' popular 'Thornapples' column and other magazines. Some of the best of his writings are now collected in this illustrated volume. Following a fox, gathering nuts, watching fireflies, tracking a bear, listening to peepers, hunting deer, searching for giant trees, camping alone -- a year of adventures and rambles in the natural world, all described in vivid detail and filled with the timeless spirit of the great outdoors.

Table of Contents

WINTER
Roaming Bear Knob	2	(4)
Coasting Through Winter	6	(7)
The Tracking Snow	13	(9)
Winter Chickadees	22	(7)
Deciduous Racks	29	(5)
The Fretful Porcupine	34	(6)
Nature's Symphony	40	(8)
SPRING
God Made March	48	(7)
The Chorus at Oak Pond	55	(8)
In the Wake of the Otter	63	(8)
Trailblazers	71	(6)
Nesting	77	(6)
Mr. Lane's Bluebird Route	83	(8)
Coaxing the Barn Owl Back	91	(9)
The Call of the Whip-poor-will	100	(7)
The Broadwings' Nest	107	(9)
SUMMER
Faith in the Cicadas	116	(6)
Hunting for Giants	122	(12)
Something About a Smell	134	(7)
Serendipitous Shapes	141	(7)
In Praise of Overnighters	148	(6)
Meat Hooks, Strainers, and Chisels	154	(8)
Wildness and Wet	162	(7)
Perfect Preserves	169	(7)
Buffleheads and Thunder Pumpers	176	(6)
The Gentle Firefly	182	(6)
The Beautiful Land	188	(8)
FALL
A Leaf Walk	196	(7)
A Nut-Gatherer's Compendium	203	(10)
Green Afterthoughts	213	(6)
Tails	219	(7)
Images of Laurel	226	(8)
A Bear of America	234	(16)
Empty Days	250