Handbook of Nature Study - Paperback

by Anna Botsford Comstock (Author)

The late Anna Botsford Comstock was the founder and first head of the Department of Nature Study at Cornell University and the first woman to be appointed to the Cornell faculty.

Anna Botsford Comstock pioneered teaching students about nature in the outdoors, and not on the classroom. This book was originally written in 1911 for elementary school teachers, but today it wonderful for introducing children and adults to the appreciation of to nature as experienced in everyday life.

Back Jacket

'A matchless handbook for decades, this classic has been the natural history bible of countless teachers and others who seek information about their natural environment. Written originally for those elementary school teachers who knew little of common plants and animals, and even less about earth beneath their feel and the skies overhead, this book is for the most part as valid and helpful to day as it was when first written in 1911.