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    <body><![CDATA[Heinrich gives us a good look at life without modern amenities in central Maine. HIs descriptions of creatures and the interactions they have on a life cycle stage is fantastic and worthy of the parts where his blindness to his own solitary state makes you want to shake him.<br/><br/>He pines for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76013306">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am actually listening to this book on tape. It is marvelous. An astute observer of nature, I emailed him and he graciously e-mailed back.  You will never forget Jack.]]></body>
    
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