Leafing Through the Pages - 2008

Leafing Through the Pages, the book discussion group of the Sterling Morton Library

Meeting the second Thursday of each month from 10-12 in the
Sterling Morton Library of The Morton Arboretum

• January 10, 2008 - Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. The worst journey in the world, 2002 (originally published 1922).
• February 14 2008 - Peterson, Roger Tory and James Fisher. Wild America : the record of a 30,000 mile journey around the continent by a distinguished naturalist and his British colleague, 1955.
• March 13, 2008 - Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life, 2007.
• April 10, 2008 - Egan, Timothy. The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl, 2006.
• May 8, 2008 - Bjornerud, Marcia. Reading the rocks : the autobiography of the earth, 2005.
• June 12, 2008 - Littlepage, Dean. Steller's Island : adventures of a pioneer naturalist in Alaska, 2006.
• July 10, 2008 - Todd, Kim. Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis, 2007.
• August 14, 2008 - Stutchbury, Bridget Joan. Silence of the songbirds, 2007.
• September 11, 2008 - Ray, Janisse. Ecology of a Cracker childhood, 1999.
• October 9, 2008 - Pollan, Michael. The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals, 2006.
• November 13, 2008 - Weidensaul, Scott. Return to wild America : a yearlong search for the continent's natural soul, 2005.
• December 11, 2008 - Greenberg, Joel. Of prairie, woods, & water : two centuries of Chicago nature writing, 2008. (To be published in March/April 2008)

Join us for a spirited discussion!