Author: PUCHALSKI Włodzimierz
Title: A year in the wilderness. Spring, summer, autumn, winter.
- Place of publication: Warsaw
- Year ofpublication: 1960
- Publisher: Sport and Tourism
- Number of pages: 208
- Illustrations, maps: illustrations in the text 207
- Size: 27 cm
- Binding: publisher's hard cloth with wrapper
- Condition: good+
- ISBN: ---
Description:
Cover design by Tadeusz Kobylka. Album with beautiful photos of the primeval forest in all seasons.
"Looking at the densely populated tracts of the country, the numerous cities, villages and settlements, the large and small industrial centers, the dense network of railroads, highways, highways and tracts, the vast expanses of cultivated fields - it is difficult to imagine that once upon a time hummed this magnificent virgin wilderness. In the ancients of these forests, trees and shrubs grew luxuriantly without human interference. No one wanted them, planted them, nurtured them, dusted them with chemical preparations, cleaned them up, but no one destroyed them either. The trees grew strong and powerful, resistant to winds and storms, to Frosts, heat and drought. Their strong roots were stuck in fertile and moist soil. Where the eye could see - everywhere there was a dark ribbon of forest..." (introduction)
Also includes an additional booklet with a table of contents of photographs in English, French, German and Russian.