''Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter'' is a
nonfiction
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book written by
Edwin Way Teale, published in 1965 by
Dodd, Mead and Company, and winner of the 1966
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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 du ...
.
The book was republished in 1990 by
St Martin's Press.
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
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; a 76,000 miles journey over 15 years, which began with ''
North with the Spring'', ''
Journey Into Summer'', and ''
Autumn Across America''.
at biography.com
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1965 non-fiction books
American travel books
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction–winning works
Dodd, Mead & Co. books
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