Donald Culross Peattie (1898–1964)
Autor von A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America
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Flora of the Indiana dunes, a handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the lake Michigan Coast of Indiana and of… (1930) 12 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1898-06-21
- Todestag
- 1964-11-16
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- Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California, USA
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- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Sterbeort
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Venice, Italy
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Ausbildung
- Harvard University (BA|1922)
University of Chicago - Berufe
- botanist
naturalist
author - Beziehungen
- Peattie, Roderick (brother)
Peattie, Noel (son)
Peattie, Louise Redfield (spouse)
Peattie, Elia W. (mother) - Organisationen
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Washington Star
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- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1941)
- Kurzbiographie
- 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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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.… (mehr)