Isbn: 9780803275607 - back in keith county (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 181 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Good biologist though [Janovy] is, he's an even better nature writer, with a special affinity for the mysterious and the mystic.'-Noel Perrin 'This 'human need for wilderness' is the trail winding through Back in Keith County . . . [to] the streams of John Janovy's 'inner cowboy country.' The fourteen essays are a very human mix of biology, sentiment, wandering observation and personal philosophy.'-Smithsonian John Janovy Jr. is Varner Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and director of the Cedar Point Biological Station. He is the author of Keith County Journal and On Becoming a Biologist, also available as a Bison Book.…

Zustand: New. Gives us an example of nature writing and of life in the Great Plains, and such works in the genre as Aldo Leopold s A Sand County Almanac and William Warner s Beautiful Swimmers . This title shows the area s wildlife - tiger beetles, toads, swallows, ow.