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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700624821
ISBN-13
9780700624829
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Last Wild Places of Kansas : Journeys Into Hidden Landscapes
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness, Outdoor Skills, Regional, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Sports & Recreation, History
Format
Trade Paperback
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0.5 in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in
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"Frazier reveals a land where ancient pecan trees grow, where flying squirrels hide in oak-hickory forests, and where streams are renegade. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the wild places of Kansas and appreciation for them."Kansas History, "George Frazier takes you to some little known and under-appreciated natural spots in Kansas. His heartfelt affection and evocative descriptions will make you want to hit the road and experience these places for yourself."-- Rex Buchanan , Director of Kansas Geological Survey "This fine book seeks out remnants of un-conscripted natural loveliness within a state where the percentage of public land is scarcely plural--he puts it at 2% of the 82,000 square miles that stretch from the shortgrass of the Cimarron desert to the sprawl of Johnson County. Natural and human history are layered here, layers of deposition that Frazier lovingly sifts through. Witty, determined, and generous with what he finds, Frazier reclaims the beauty of understated and forgotten. I love visiting these places with him."-- Elizabeth Dodd , author of Horizon's Lens: My Time on the Turning World, "George Frazier takes you to some little known and under-appreciated natural spots in Kansas. His heartfelt affection and evocative descriptions will make you want to hit the road and experience these places for yourself."- Rex Buchanan , Director of Kansas Geological Survey "This fine book seeks out remnants of un-conscripted natural loveliness within a state where the percentage of public land is scarcely plural--he puts it at 2% of the 82,000 square miles that stretch from the shortgrass of the Cimarron desert to the sprawl of Johnson County. Natural and human history are layered here, layers of deposition that Frazier lovingly sifts through. Witty, determined, and generous with what he finds, Frazier reclaims the beauty of understated and forgotten. I love visiting these places with him."- Elizabeth Dodd , author of Horizon's Lens: My Time on the Turning World, "Frazier reveals a land where ancient pecan trees grow, where flying squirrels hide in oak-hickory forests, and where streams are renegade. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the wild places of Kansas and appreciation for them."-- Kansas History, "George Frazier takes you to some little known and under-appreciated natural spots in Kansas. His heartfelt affection and evocative descriptions will make you want to hit the road and experience these places for yourself."Rex Buchanan , Director of Kansas Geological Survey "This fine book seeks out remnants of un-conscripted natural loveliness within a state where the percentage of public land is scarcely pluralhe puts it at 2% of the 82,000 square miles that stretch from the shortgrass of the Cimarron desert to the sprawl of Johnson County. Natural and human history are layered here, layers of deposition that Frazier lovingly sifts through. Witty, determined, and generous with what he finds, Frazier reclaims the beauty of understated and forgotten. I love visiting these places with him."Elizabeth Dodd , author of Horizons Lens: My Time on the Turning World
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
508.781
Table Of Content
Prologue Author's Note 1. Black Bob and the Prophet 2. La Jornada 3. Old Growth 4. The Alpha and the Omega 5. Ottering 6. The Renegade Streams of Eastern Kansas 7. Badlands 8. Big Springs Go Go 9. Bardo on the Kaw Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Ferguson Kansas History Book Award Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder, George Frazier suggests, and you can find the last places where tenacious stretches of prairie, forest, and wetland cheat death and incubate the DNA of lost, wild America. Documenting three years spent roaming the state in search of these hidden treasures, The Last Wild Places of Kansas is Frazier's idiosyncratic and eye-opening travelogue of nature's secret holdouts in the Sunflower State. These are places where extirpated mammalian species are making comebacks; where flying squirrels leap between centuries-old trees lit by the unearthly green glow of foxfire; where cold springs feed ancient watercress pools; where the ice moon paints the Smoky Hill with memories of the buffalo wolf and the lonesome rattle of false indigo; where the blue lid of the sky forms a vacuum seal over treeless pastel hills, orange in winter; where bluestem rises. Some are impossible to find on maps. Most are magnificently bereft of anything beneficial to 99.9 percent of modern America. True wildernesses they may not be, but at the correct angle of light, when the wind blows pollen carrying biological memories of the glaciers, these places are a crack between the worlds, portals to the lost buffalo wilderness. En route Frazier takes us from the unexpected wilds of the Kansas City suburbs to the Cimarron National Grassland in the far southwestern corner of the state. He visits ancient springs, shares a beer with prairie dog hunters, and fails in his mission to canoe the upper Marais des Cygnes--a trip that requires permission from every landowner on the route. Along the way we encounter a host of curious characters--ranchers, farmers, Native Americans, explorers, wildlife experts, and outdoor enthusiasts--all fellow travelers in a quest to know, preserve, and share the last wild places of Kansas., A deep travelogue that chronicles the author's nine year journey to discover the last "wild places" of Kansas; places that new generations of explorers rediscover century after century, some of which are impossible to find on maps, hidden behind barbed wire on private property, and magnificently bereft of anything beneficial to 99.9% of modern America.
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