Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters, by Angela E. Douglas log cabin practical handbook covers everything from

practical handbook covers everything from “feminine functions” (like dealing with your period and peeing in the woods) to staying safe (like protecting yourself from strangers)

-- Englewood Review of Books

like O'Leary's writing

and fine-lined drawings are reminiscent of an antique rendering

Jukes writes about what it means to "keep" wild creatures

Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters, by Angela E. Douglas log cabin practical handbook covers everything fromNature on the Doorstep reveals the simple pleasures of paying attention to the natural world in one's own backyard over the course of a year. In weekly letters, Angela Douglas shares the joys and curiosities of a decidedly ordinary patch of green in upstate New York cultivated through the art of "strategic neglect" sometimes taking a hand to manage wildlife, more often letting nature go its own way. From the first flowers of spring to cardinals