Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Janice Fogg in memory of Raymond Dickinson. Library Journal Review: Starred Review. In 1953, Houghton Mifflin published Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher's classic Wild America:The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague. This reprise is by another distinguished naturalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist Weidensaul (The Ghost with Trembling Wings), who retraced Peterson and Fisher's route 50 years later. Vividly chronicled here are the changes or lack of change in wild North American areas like the Maritime Provinces, Florida, northern Mexico, Texas, Arizona, California, and the Pacific Northwest, including Alaska. Weidensaul gives readers an in-depth account of the bad news since 1953, including the spread of destructive and invasive species, chemical pollution, global warming, species decline, and the unnecessary logging of some old-growth forests. He also celebrates the good news: enlightened environmental legislation, new parks and refuges, the comebacks of some threatened species, and the birth of the environmental movement. All in all, an engaging and most informative sequel; highly recommended.?Henry T. Armistead, Free Lib. of Philadelphia Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.