{"product_id":"a-year-across-maryland-bryan-mackay-9781421409399","title":"A Year Across Maryland: A Week-By-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA week-by-week look at the abundant wildlife and plants in and around Maryland--where and when to find them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen can you find ripe blueberries along the Appalachian Trail in Maryland? Where can you see the air filled with monarch butterflies as they migrate south each autumn? If you want to enjoy nature this weekend, where is the best place to visit? Bryan MacKay can tell you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten as an almanac, \u003ci\u003eA Year across Maryland\u003c\/i\u003e invites you to explore the natural world throughout the year, from watching bald eagles nesting in January to harvesting mistletoe in December. Entries identify the best time and place to experience such wonders as wildflowers blooming, birds in migration, amphibians singing, and morel mushrooms ready to be picked, sliced, saut馥d, and devoured. Color photographs of more than seventy species enrich and illustrate the text. Every week of the year has a recommended \"Trip of the Week.\" Personal essays that draw from MacKay's field notes provide an intimate glimpse into a biologist encounters with plants and animals over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you want to see snow geese and trumpeter swans pausing in their northward migration each March, or the mating \"jubilee\" of polychaete worms during the new moon in May, \u003ci\u003eA Year across Maryland\u003c\/i\u003e offers valuable advice for the spontaneous adventurer and the serious planner alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bryan MacKay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421409399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421409399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.51h x 5.62w x 0.73d","brand":"Bryan MacKay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046763852031,"sku":"9781421409399","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9273a2ba-c93f-4dc0-b60e-557197e465a4.jpg?v=1684986353","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-year-across-maryland-bryan-mackay-9781421409399","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}