Where Winter Never Comes: A Study of Man and Nature in the Tropics

Very good hardcover. Second edition, 1952. No dust jacket (front and back inside flaps clipped from the dust jacket are laid in to the book.) Bumped corners. Cloth fraying at the spine.

Black and white illustrations. Maps and diagrams by Vaughn S. Gray; other drawings by Alma W. Froderstrom.

Through all his adult years, Marston Bates has wanted to pay off an old debt - his emotional debt to the tropics. During a childhood spent in Florida he fell in love, he says, with the "idea" of the tropics. Three happy years in Honduras, later years in Colombia, made the attachment permanent. At every opportunity he has escaped again to the region between Capricorn and Cancer "where winter never comes."

In a delightfully casual style that is peculiarly his own, Marston Bates has set down fifteen chapters of completely fascinating information. Where Winter Never Comes is partly history, but it is largely natural history with emphasis upon that social animal, man.