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Title

Recovering the prairie / edited by Robert F. Sayre.

Publication

• Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, [1999]
• ©1999

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Details

Additional Authors

Sayre, Robert F.

Description

viii, 225 pages. 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Prairie conservation
• Prairies
• Prairies > Pictorial works
• Landschappen

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works.
• Pictorial works.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• Essays contributed to a symposium held September 20-22, 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prairie prospects: the aesthetics of plainness / Joni L. Kinsey, Rebecca Roberts, Robert F. Sayre -- Walt Whitman's prairie paradise / Ed Folsom -- On level ground: Alexander Gardner's photographs of the Kansas prairies / Jane E. Simonsen -- Cosmopolitan vistas: Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, and the literary value of regionalism / Tom Lutz -- Prairie politics and the landscape of reform / Shelton Stromquist -- The landscape art of Jens Jensen / Robert E. Grese -- Reimagining the prairie: Aldo Leopold and the origins of prairie restoration / Curt Meine -- Prairie: the forgotten flora / Aldo Leopold -- The phoenix people of sod corn country / Pauline Drobney -- Tanji na Che: recovering the landscape of the Ioway / Lance M. Foster -- Natural systems agriculture: the truly radical alternative / Wes Jackson -- Sizing up the country: contemporary artists' perspectives on the prairie / Robert F. Sayre.

ISBN

• 0299164608
• 9780299164607

LCCN

99025650

OCLC

• ocm41049687
• 41049687
• SCSB-1202033

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library