Summer World: A Season of Bounty »

The author of numerous bestselling and award-winning books, Bernd Heinrich is a professor of biology at the University of Vermont. He divides his time between Vermont and the forests of western Maine.

The highly anticipated, intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in summer, from award-winning nature writer Heinrich, the bestselling author of "Winter World."

The New York Times - Elizabeth Royte

While Heinrich considers insects "magical" for doing so much with a pinpoint-size brain, the entomologist himself is a Dumbledore of the forest—magical himself for his ability to conjure a riot of life from what others less attuned might consider your standard Northern woodlot…the marvels that Hein rich reveals and his own enthusiasm—a quality he admires in the animals around him—are certain to carry you along.