''Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter'' is a
non-fiction
Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with b ...
book written by
Edwin Way Teale, published in 1965 by
Dodd, Mead and Company, and winner of the 1966
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. The award is given to a nonfiction book written by an American author and published duri ...
.
The book was republished in 1990 by
St Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under si ...
.
This book documents the travels of a naturalist and his wife,
Nellie I. Teale who spent four winter months traveling twenty thousand miles across the southwestern United States and parts of the Midwest. The trip ended in northeastern Maine. The book includes reports on the people, plants, animals, and birds they encountered.
It is the final volume in his natural history of the four seasons in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and th ...
; a 76,000 miles journey over 15 years, which began with ''
North with the Spring'', ''
Journey Into Summer'', and ''
Autumn Across America
Autumn Across America is a 1956 non-fiction book written by Edwin Way Teale. It is the third book of a four-part book series covering various seasons. The journey in the book starts at the fall of equinox and finishes at the winter solstice of 1 ...
''.
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1965 non-fiction books
American travel books
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction-winning works
Dodd, Mead & Co. books
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