Dune boy : the early years of a naturalist / by Edwin Way Teale ; illustrated by Edward Shenton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teale, Edwin Way, 1899-1980.

Contributor:

Shenton, Edward, 1895-1977.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teale, Edwin Way, 1899-1980.

Teale, Edwin Way.

Naturalists--Indiana--Biography.

Naturalists.

Indiana.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Storrs, CT : Bibliopola Press ; Hanover, N.H. : Distributed by the University Press of New England, 2002.

Summary:

The great naturalist, Edwin Way Teale, spent his boyhood holidays and summers at his grandparents' farm, Lone Oak, in Indiana. In Dune Boy, first published in 1943, he relives these bucolic visits and his budding interest in the natural world around him. A loner, often bullied by other children, Teale escaped to the roof of the old house where he gazed at the golden dunes in the distance, and dreamed his own fantastic dreams. The young Teale was fascinated by moths, dragonflies, snakes, and the workings of the farm. He yearned to fly. He tried to hitch a calf to a cart, to ride a pig. He created a "museum" for his collections of arrowheads, stones, and fish skeletons. Most of all, he enjoyed his storytelling, hardworking grandfather, and his book loving, equally hardworking grandmother. He returned to Lone Oak every summer until he was fifteen.

Contents:

I Far Dunes 1

II Dune Boy 7

III The Ways 13

IV Indian Days 27

V Mouse Pelts 34

VI Money Matters 44

VII The Wheely-Cart 53

VIII Rib-Walkers 61

IX Strawberry Train 71

X Hoopsnakes 79

XI Neighbors 87

XII Gallinippers 98

XIII Dinner Bells 105

XIV Great Winds 116

XV Sky Race 125

XVI The Dragonette 133

XVII A Hoosier Darius Green 145

XVIII Wintergreen Berries 154

XIX Beyond the Dunes 161

XX Smith Hill 170

XXI Wagonshed Museum 177

XXII Attic Hours 185

XXIII We Go to Town 192

XXIV Lamplight 201

XXV White Tip 210

XXVI Tales of Lone Oak 219

XXVII The Box Camera 229

XXVIII The Death of a Tree 235

XXIX Christmas Eve 243

XXX The Journey 250.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Dodd, Mead, 1943.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0939883090

OCLC:

49827274