by Mikhail Prishvin
A programme of readings about winter taken from ' The Lake and the Woods: or Nature's Calendar ' by Mikhail Prishvin , in the translation by W. L. Goodman
Reader, Carleton Hobbs
Mikhail Prishvin , writer and naturalist, was born in 1873. He thus belongs to the older generation of Russian writers, but he is popular in Russia today and is still contributing to periodicals there. The book from which these extracts are taken dcscribes the lives of birds, animal, and men during the course of the seasons in the country round Lake.Pleshchcyevo.