Books like North with the Spring: A Naturalist's Record of a 17,000-Mile Journey with the North American Spring

For those interested in North American nature studies Edwin Way Teale is an inevitable force to contend with. A reasonable biography is summarized on Wikipedia. He came to my attention via the reference to his Strange Lives of Familiar Insects in Dillard's Pilgrim At Tinker Creek. His four volume "Seasons" represents the notable accomplishment of crossing the country's cardinal directions in subsequent seasons and documenting an encyclopedia's worth of information about flora, fauna, weather, human impact, etc. with then (50s/60s) nascent ecological sensibilities. This work appeals to me for its contributions to ecological science, for its literary merits - down to earth reporting and just plain good stories if you like things like eagles nests and the world's deepest spring, a couple hundred foot hole in the ground that turns into a river at your feet - but also because the undertaking involved a many, many thousands of miles road trip around the land. Beats a desk job trying to assuage clients who's life savings is down the drain. Well, at least to me it does.Regrettably, Goodreads database does not include and asks that I do not add the edition of the book I own. The 1960s Apollo trade paperbacks of each of the four titles have quintessential period cover art. Can be viewed at davidbogosian.com