{"id":805,"date":"2016-10-27T01:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T05:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/?p=805"},"modified":"2016-10-27T01:07:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T05:07:03","slug":"a-love-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"A love of nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/book_naturalist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-788\" src=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/book_naturalist-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"book_naturalist\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/book_naturalist-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/book_naturalist-768x1114.jpg 768w, http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/book_naturalist-706x1024.jpg 706w, http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/book_naturalist.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>The Naturalist<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Alissa York<\/strong><br \/>\nRandom House Canada<br \/>\nHard Cover, 290 Pages<br \/>\nwww.penguinrandomhouse.ca<\/p>\n<p>The freakish death of amateur naturalist Walter Ash does not halt the plans he has put into place for what was to be his second journey up the Amazon. Instead, his intentions are honoured by his wife Iris, her maid Rachel and Walter\u2019s son Paul by continuing on with the journey to Para, Brazil to collect specimens.<\/p>\n<p>It is along this expedition in 1867 that we learn of Walter\u2019s first love and marriage to a local Brazilian woman who died while giving birth to Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Devastated by the loss, Walter returned home to Philadelphia with his infant son and eventually met and married the wealthy Iris, who shared an interest in nature. But it is the Quaker Rachel who offers the most intrigue with her intense passion for science and insatiable quest for knowledge in the field. It is Rachel we come to understand who will be the one to carry on with Walter\u2019s life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Naturalist By Alissa York Random House Canada Hard Cover, 290 Pages www.penguinrandomhouse.ca The freakish death of amateur naturalist Walter Ash does not halt the [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/?p=805\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A love of nature - Active Senior&#039;s Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/activeseniorsdigest.ca\/wp_activeseniorsdigest\/?p=805\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A love of nature - 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