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Book SynopsisBlends memoir and nature writing, tracking the Platte River valley for one calendar year, ushering readers through its diverse and changing landscape and the plants, animals, and humans that call the ecosystem home.
Trade Review“This articulate and compelling account of the history of crane country in Nebraska follows the seasons over a landscape that hosts in spring the planet’s greatest gathering of cranes. Doreen Pfost elegantly weaves together the story of these magnificent ambassadors for things wild and free in a part of our planet that humans have transformed in recent centuries, but where ancient wildlife spectacles still happen.”—George Archibald, cofounder of the International Crane Foundation
“Doreen Pfost’s personal homage to Nebraska’s Platte River is a powerful collection of twelve essays encompassing a year, bounded by its spring crane migration. They reveal a Willa Cather–like affection for the place and its people and an Aldo Leopold–like capacity to describe its wildlife, especially the iconic sandhill cranes.”—Paul A. Johnsgard, author of
Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie: A Nebraska YearTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Swept Up in a Wind-Borne River: March and Early April
2. Regarding the Aftermath: Late April
3. Trails and Consequences: May
4. Rooted in Sand: June
5. Of Legendary Worth: July
6. River Walkers: August and September
7. Flickering Light on the Flyway: October and Early November
8. Outside Home: Late November
9. This Living Planet: December
10. Teaching Ourselves to See: January
11. Wonders Close to Home: February
12. Swept Up, Still and Again: March
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