Self-Portrait with Turtles

✍ Scribed by David M. Carroll

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A renowned artist, author, and naturalist, David M. Carroll is exceptionally skilled at capturing nature on the page. In Self-Portrait with Turtles, he reflects on his own life, recounting the crucial moments that shaped his passions and abilities. Beginning with his first sighting of a wild turtle at age eight, Carroll describes his lifelong fascination with swamps and the creatures that inhabit them. He also traces his evolution as an artist, from the words of encouragement he received in high school to his college days in Boston to his life with his wife and family. Self-Portrait with Turtles is a remarkable memoir, a marvelous and exhilarating account of a life well lived.

✦ Subjects

Nature; Nonfiction; NAT000000

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