Edwin Way Teale

This book forms the third part in author Edwin Way Teale's popular series of four books on The American Seasons.Following on from North With the Spring (1951), the story of a 17,000-mile journey, keeping pace with the advance of spring up the North American map, and Autumn Across America (1956), an adventurous, wandering, 20,000-mile journey from Cape Cod to California through the most colorful season of the year, Journey Into Summer takes the reader...

Interwoven with accounts of Thoreau's daily life (he did not live as a recluse but received visitors and almost daily walked into Concord) are meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics, expressed with clear-headed wisdom and remarkable beauty of style.

In this book, the author retells his 20,000-mile journey from Southern California to Northern Maine.

After a chapter describing insect life in general, the author studies the anatomy, habits and life cycles of the following insects: May fly, dragonfly, termite, cricket, praying mantis, aphid, chinch bug, lacewing fly, monarch butterfly, housefly, ladybird beetle, cicadakiller wasp, paper-making wasp and ant.

Piece concerns the spread of purple loosestrife as observed by the author on the Sudbury River in Concord, Mass.