Nature’s Everyday Mysteries copyright © 1993 by Sy Montgomery
Secrets of the Wild copyright © 1995 by Sy Montgomery
Reprinted by arrangement with Chapters Publishing Ltd.
Cover illustration copyright © 2000 by Liddy Hubbell
Book design by Michael Steere
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Montgomery, Sy.
[Nature’s everyday mysteries]
The curious naturalist: nature’s everyday mysteries / Sy Montgomery.
p. cm.
First work originally published: Nature’s everyday mysteries. Shelburne, Vt. : Chapters Pub., c1993, in series: The Curious naturalist series.
Second work originally published: Seasons of the wild. Shelburne, Vt. : Chapters, c1995, in series: The Curious naturalist series.
ISBN 0-89272-510-9 (pbk.)
1. Natural history—United States. 2. Nature. 3. Seasons—United States. I. Montgomery, Sy. Seasons of the wild. II. Title.
QH104 .M66 2000
508.73—dc21
00-043113