Enchanted by Prairie
University of Iowa Press
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2009
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-1-58729-803-5 (ISBN)
Description
Gives us close-ups of pasque flower shoots covered with ice in spring, coneflowers dancing in a summer breeze, and prairie dropseed in its autumn colors as well as such prairie companions as sandhill cranes, northern harriers, and bison. This book celebrates prairie landscape.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
64 colour photos
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 258 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58729-803-5 (9781587298035)
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Longtime photojournalist and former state representative Bill Witt is the intellectual property officer for the University of Northern Iowa. His photos and essays have been published in the Iowan, Iowa Heritage Illustrated, Sierra, Nature Conservancy, and the Sun. The Sierra Club named him an "American environmental hero" in 1991. He is the author of Orchids in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Native Orchids of Iowa (Iowa, 2006). Journalist and author Osha Gray Davidson's work has appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, the Nation, the New Republic, and Popular Science, among others. He is the author of five books of nonfiction, the most recent of which is Fire in the Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean.