Journey into Summer

<p><strong>Journey into Summer</strong> first published in 1960 is the third part in naturalist Edwin Way Teale's popular series of four books known as <em>The American Seasons.</em> Following from <em>North With the Spring </em>(1951) the story of a 17000-mile journey and <em>Autumn Across America </em>(1956) a 20000-mile journey from Cape Cod to California <em>Journey Into Summer </em>takes the reader from northern New England along the shores of the Great Lakes south through the corn belt and west to the Rocky Mountains for a total of 19000 miles of nature exploration during a typical American summer.</p><p>Author Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) was an American naturalist photographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Teale's writings due to his keen sense of observation provided a valuable record of environmental conditions across North America. His most famous book series <em>The American Seasons </em>documented over 75000 miles of automobile travel across North America.</p>