books.google.co.nz - In sixteen thoroughly engaging essays, naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales ventures far and wide among the richly diverse flora and fauna of his native Tennessee Valley. Whether describing the nocturnal habits of the elusive whip-poor-will, the pivotal role the hedge plant Osage orange played in a key Civil...http://books.google.co.nz/books/about/Natural_histories.html?id=aIZmfXFGydwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareNatural histories