Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner
Wandering Through Winter
by Edwin Way Teale
Summary
A naturalist's chronicle of a 20,000 mile journey across the United States in pursuit of winter, from the Mexican border to the snowbound forests of New England. Teale combines field observation, scientific detail, and lyrical description to reveal the hidden vitality of a season most Americans treat as dormant. The book closes a celebrated quartet of travelogues, one for each season, that helped define modern American nature writing.
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Historical Context & Significance
The final volume in Teale's legendary series covering all four seasons. He traveled in a station wagon across the U.S. to document a season many Americans feared or ignored.