Thomas Fairchild Sherman

About the Author: A native of the Finger Lakes region of New York, Thomas Fairchild Sherman acquired an early appreciation for the outdoors, and while a student at Oberlin College, found summer employment as a wilderness guide in the Superior-Quetico country of Minnesota and Canada. As a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, he combined his doctoral studies in biochemistry with bicycle explorations across the British countryside. For three decades until his recent retirement to the north woods...See more

About the Author: A native of the Finger Lakes region of New York, Thomas Fairchild Sherman acquired an early appreciation for the outdoors, and while a student at Oberlin College, found summer employment as a wilderness guide in the Superior-Quetico country of Minnesota and Canada. As a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, he combined his doctoral studies in biochemistry with bicycle explorations across the British countryside. For three decades until his recent retirement to the north woods of Maine, he taught biology at Oberlin, save for research fellowships at Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, and Duke. He has led Oberlin students on biological field studies in England, the Great Smoky Mountains, and the Canadian wilderness, but most especially in the land which is the cherished subject of this book. See less