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Recovering the Prairie
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Recovering the Prairie Hardback - 1999 - 1st Edition

by Sayre, Robert F

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Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1999. Hardback. Fine/Very Good.
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  • Title Recovering the Prairie
  • Author Sayre, Robert F
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Pr, Madison, WI
  • Date 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 342207
  • ISBN 9780299164607 / 0299164608
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 7.27 x 0.84 in (23.72 x 18.47 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Prairies, Prairie conservation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99025650
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.741

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From the jacket flap

Americans in ever increasing numbers are rediscovering the prairie. This vast inland sea of grasses, buried for a hundred years beneath farms, cities, and suburbs, has endured not only in physical remnants but also in the memories of its settlers and their descendants, the books of prairie authors, and the work of prairie artists. As restoration ecologists and amateur prairie preservationists recover the land, this book seeks to recover the prairie of the American imagination -- past, present, and future.

Beautifully illustrated with the work of sixteen contemporary prairie artists, Recovering the Prairie celebrates and examines the perspectives of past artists, writers, native peoples, ecologists, and landscape architects -- Willa Cather, Aldo Leopold, Jens Jensen, Alexander Gardner, and many others -- who recognized the unique beauty of the prairie. And, this volume brings together people from many fields to consider the connections between aesthetics and economics, landscape and culture, politics and ethics, as illustrated by the prairie in American civilization.

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Citations

  • Choice, 09/01/2000, Page 157
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/06/1999, Page 95

About the author

Robert F. Sayre is professor of English and American literature at the University of Iowa. He is the editor of the anthology American Lives, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and of several other books, including Take This Exit: Re-Discovering the Iowa Landscape.

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