“student of wildlife.” This multi-genre compilation of Roosevelt's best and most-neglected, non-hunting, nature writing hopes to restore to one of America's great naturalists his rightful reputation—to revivify him as he was in the eyes of his own family—a man of nature—and, in so doing, to call back to each of our clans the guiding spirits of those seed-bearers like my Gran, my Julia, who trailblazed with love and passion and true ecological vision.
