Secrets of the Friendly Woods: Centennial Edition

A delightful series of sketches about our native woods and their furred and feathered inhabitants

When Rex Brasher was eight years old, he vowed to paint every kind of bird in North America. Forty years later, he accomplished his monumental task and decided to write this book. Brasher was recognized at the time by museum experts and ornithologists as the twentieth-century Audubon.

While studying birds and sketching them from life in the field, Brasher absorbed an amazing amount of firsthand i...