Doreen Pfost

This River Beneath the Sky (eBook, ePUB)

A Year on the Platte

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Each spring, formations of sandhill cranes crisscross the skies along Nebraska's Platte River in one of the last great migratory spectacles on the North American continent. From across the globe, tens of thousands of visitors gather to witness a land transformed, "wild with birds." But the central Platte River system is witness to even more than this wondrous annual event. It is also an abiding source of natural, agricultural, and economic life in three states as an icon of western history and as a place of wonder. In This River Beneath the Sky, Doreen Pfost seamlessly blends 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.From serving as a tour guide for visitors who come to see the sandhill crane migration to monitoring the population count on a bluebird trail, from exploring the human settlements surrounding the...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803285347
• Artikelnr.: 44830349

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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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