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Visits with the Amish
Impressions of the Plain Life
Av Linda Egenes
Häftad, 2009
173 kr
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Who are the 'plain people', the men and women who till their fields with horse and plow, travel by horse and buggy, live without electricity and telephones, and practice 'help thy neighbor' in daily life? Linda Egenes visited with her Old Order Amish neighbors in southeast Iowa for thirteen years …
Booming from the Mists of Nowhere
The Story of the Greater PrairieChicken
Av Greg Hoch
Häftad, 2015
257 kr
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For ten months of the year, the prairiechicken’s drab colors allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds in North America. Competing with each other for the attention of females, males gather before dawn in an …
Six-Minute Memoir
Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life
Häftad, 2022
225 kr
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This collection of short essays delivers more joy than many books twice its size. Culled from two decades’ worth of Mary Helen Stefaniak’s “Alive and Well” column in the Iowa Source, each essay invites readers into the ordinary life of a woman “with a family and friends and a job . . . and a series …
Tending Iowa’s Land
Pathways to a Sustainable Future
Häftad, 2022
221 kr
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In the last 200 years, Iowa’s prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa’s land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that …
Wapsipinicon Almanac
Selections from Thirty Years
Av Timothy Fay
Häftad, 2023
278 kr
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In 1988, Timothy Fay published the very first issue of the Wapsipinicon Almanac at his Route 3 Press in Anamosa, Iowa. Fay’s goal was to offer a journal somewhat outside of mainstream Iowa journalism. For thirty years, the annual Wapsipinicon Almanac entertained midwestern readers with timely …
Iowa's Changing Wildlife
Three Decades of Gain and Loss
Av James J. Dinsmore, Stephen J. Dinsmore
Häftad, 2023
264 kr
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Much has changed with Iowa’s wildlife in the years 1990 to 2020. Some species such as Canada goose, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer that once were rare in Iowa are now common, and others like sandhill crane, river otter, and trumpeter swan are becoming increasingly abundant. Iowa’s Changing …
Birding English
Exploring the History of a Language Through 50 Birds
Häftad, 2026
359 kr
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What do words like unkindness, haggard, asparagus, jizz, and the singular they have to do with birds? Quite a lot, actually. From Old English roots and Shakespearean idioms to Victorian slang and modern online lingo, Birding English charts a dynamic course through English’s past, present, and …
Harker's Barns
Visions of an American Icon
Av Jim Heynen
Häftad, 2003
249 kr
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Michael Harker drove past old barns on gravel roads and blacktop highways for years. He generally dismissed them as obsolete outbuildings until November 1993, when he felt compelled to photograph a windmill in Clutier, Iowa. This single photograph launched him on a seven-and-a-half-year mission to …
Down to the River
Portraits of Iowa Musicians
2007
319 kr
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In 1987, photographer Sandra Dyas moved to Iowa City and began documenting the area's vibrant live music scene, with its distinctive com-bination of folk, blues, roots/Americana, and rock sounds. The sixty photos in ""Down to the River"" capture her twenty years of photographing live music venues …
Sunday Afternoon on the Porch
Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942
Inbunden, 2007
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In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a clasp from his mother's purse. For the next several …
Prairie City, Iowa
Three Seasons at Home
Häftad, 2008
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Weary from the journalistic treadmill of 'going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests' and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. Back in Prairie City, he helped on his father's farm, scooped grains at the …
Biographical Dictionary of Iowa
Av David Hudson, Marvin Bergman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
386 kr
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Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation. In the 1930s alone, such towering figures as John L. Lewis, Henry A. Wallace, and Herbert Hoover hugely influenced the nation's affairs. Iowa's Native Americans, early …
Deep Nature
Photographs from Iowa
Av John Pearson
Inbunden, 2009
271 kr
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Photographers Linda and Robert Scarth have an incredible eye for that magic moment when small becomes beautiful. Matched with patience and skill, their eye for magic produces dazzling images of Iowa nature up close. Revealing the miniature beauties hidden among the patches of prairie, woodland, and …
Raptors of Iowa
Av Dean M. Roosa, Jon W. Stravers m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
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This long-awaited collection of James Landenberger’s paintings of Iowa birds of prey presents thirty-two full-page, full-color species, from the common turkey vulture to the red-shouldered hawk of Mississippi River woodlands to the little northern saw-whet owl. Four naturalists who have devoted …
Of Wilderness and Wolves
Av Paul L. Errington, Matthew Wynn Sivils
Häftad, 2015
279 kr
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“I was a predator, myself, and lived close to the land.” With these words, Paul L. Errington begins this lost classic. Now in print for the first time, the book celebrates a key predator: the wolf. One of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, Errington melds his expertise in …
North American Birds
A Coloring Book
Av Dana Gardner
Häftad, 2017
125 kr
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There are many field guides to birds of the United States. Refer to one if you want to know which colors go exactly where on these thirty-three precisely drawn illustrations. Or create your own fantastic ornithological kingdom by using the brightest shades and patterns you can imagine. It’s almost …
Heart Stays Country
Meditations from the Southern Flint Hills
Av Gary Lantz
Häftad, 2017
234 kr
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Writer and photographer Gary Lantz has always felt most at home in what the Osage used to call the “heart stays” country—the southern edge of the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie in Oklahoma’s Osage County. It’s a place of grassy mounds with lots of rocks underfoot and clusters of crooked little oaks …
Sky Dance of the Woodcock
The Habits and Habitats of a Strange Little Bird
Av Greg Hoch
Häftad, 2019
264 kr
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Woodcock are one of the oddest birds in North America. They are a shorebird that got lost and ended up in the scrubby parts of the forest, and look like they were put together with the leftover parts of other birds. Oddities aside, each spring they rise to great beauty with their sky dance at …
Hidden Prairie
Photographing Life in One Meter
Av Chris Helzer
Häftad, 2020
359 kr
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Chris Helzer illustrates the beauty and diversity of prairie through an impressive series of photographs, all taken within the same square meter of prairie. During his year-long project, he photographed 113 plant and animal species within a tiny plot, and captured numerous other images that …
With Wings Extended
A Leap into the Wood Duck's World
Av Greg Hoch
Häftad, 2020
306 kr
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A century ago, many people had given up on the wood duck, dooming it to extinction along with the passenger pigeon and Carolina parakeet. Today, it's one of the most familiar and most harvested ducks in the eastern half of the country, and one of America's great conservation success stories.In With …
Wildland Sentinel
Field Notes from an Iowa Conservation Officer
Häftad, 2020
163 kr
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In America's Midwest, where 'wilderness' is in short supply, working to defend what's left of Iowa's natural resources can be both a daunting and an entertaining task. In Wildland Sentinel, Erika Billerbeck takes readers along for the ride as she and her colleagues sift through poaching …
Green, Fair, and Prosperous
Paths to Sustainable Iowa
Häftad, 2020
135 kr
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At the center of what was once the tallgrass prairie, Iowa has stood out for clearing the land and becoming one of the most productive agricultural states in the nation. But its success is challenged by multiple issues including but not limited to a decline in union representation of meatpacking …
Iowa's Remarkable Soils
The Story of Our Most Vital Resource and How We Can Save It
Häftad, 2021
221 kr
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Sometimes called 'black gold,' Iowa's deep, rich soils are a treasure that formed over thousands of years under the very best of the world's grasslands-the tallgrass prairie. The soils are diverse and complex and hold within them a record not only of Iowa's prehistoric past, but also of the changes …
To Find a Pasqueflower
A Story of the Tallgrass Prairie
Av Greg Hoch
Häftad, 2022
178 kr
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The tallgrass prairie once stretched from Indiana to Kansas to Minnesota. Most of this land is now growing corn and soybeans. In To Find a Pasqueflower, Greg Hoch shows us that the tallgrass prairie is the most endangered ecosystem on the continent, but it’s also an ecosystem that people can play …
All Is Leaf
Essays and Transformations
Av John T Price
Häftad, 2022
204 kr
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Drawing inspiration and urgency from the storied Goethe Oak tree at Buchenwald concentration camp—and from the leaf as symbol of all change, growth, and renewal—award-winning essayist John Price explores a multitude of dramatic transformations, in his life and in the fragile world beyond: “the how …
