This book describes the joy of family life on a very remote mountaintop farm. There is moon-lit sledding, fall garden harvesting, a world of birds and wild animals, all punctuated by the father's long daily commute to a real world job. Values of simplicity, self-sufficiency, and being a part of nature are exemplified.

Escape to the mountain: A family's adventures in the wilderness

Bonta, Marcia

Literature & Fiction

A.S. Barnes

The author records her observations of the changes brought by the coming of spring to the woods and fields of Appalachia, supplementing her own insights with the research of natural scientists

Appalachian Spring

History

Americas

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Illustrates the landscapes, wildlife, and ecology of the Appalachian region during the fall

Appalachian Autumn (Pitt Series in Nature and Natural History)

Science & Math

This is the third book in acclaimed naturalist Marcia Bonta's series on the seasons of a Pennsylvania mountain. As she did in Appalachian Spring and Appalachian Autumn, Bonta offers a day-by-day account of the natural life of one place--her 648-acre property on the westernmost ridge of the ridge-and-valley province of south central Pennsylvania.

Appalachian Summer

Marcia Bonta is a naturalist-writer who has lived on a 500-acre mountain-top farm in central Pennsylvania for twenty years. Appalachian Spring is her personal account of that glorious spectacle - the coming of the spring to the woods and fields of Appalachia.

Appalachian Spring (Regional)

University of Pittsburgh Press

Like her popular Appalachian Spring, Bonta’s book offers a day-by-day account of the changing world of nature in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. This time she chronicles the beauties of the autumn months as she walks the familiar roads and trails of her 500-acre mountain-top farm, noting the minute transformations of the season as well as the more dramatic ones.

Appalachian Autumn (Regional)

Bonta offers a day-by-day account of the natural life of one place--her 648-acre property in south central Pennsylvania. In her minute observations of one place, one season, Marcia Bonta lays bare the connections we retain to the natural world, which is, finally, our own.

Appalachian Summer (Regional)

This is the fourth (and final) volume in Marcia Bonta’s seasonal musings on the natural world surrounding her 650-acre home in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. It explores the often hidden beauty and outdoor life of North American winters.

Appalachian Winter (Regional)

This book describes the joy of family life on a very remote mountaintop farm. There is moon-lit sledding, fall garden harvesting, a world of birds and wild animals, all punctuated by the father's long daily commute to a real world job. Values of simplicity, self-sufficiency, and being a part of nature are exemplified.

Escape to the Mountain: A Family's Adventures in the Wilderness

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Axios Press

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