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(More customer reviews)In writing his magnificent Natural History of the Chicago Region, Joel Greenberg came across many interesting writings from early settlers. He put these aside and searched for additional writings after his Natural History of the Chicago Region was published. He assembled the writings in this volume. Individual essays, most written in the 1800s and very early 1900s, run anywhere from less than a page to several pages. The essays are grouped by the main subject of the writing. So, the book is broken down into the categories: Landscape, Botany, Land Animals, Waterworld, and Mindscape. All of the writings come from the greater Chicago region. Greenberg picked the top essays and I enjoyed virtually all of them. This is really a wonderful collection of obscure and otherwise hard to find nature writings. It can be enjoyed by anyone but those in the Midwest might find it the most appealing.
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In the literary imagination, Chicago evokes images of industry and unbridled urban growth. But the tallgrass prairie and deep forests that once made up Chicago's landscape also inspired musings from residents and visitors alike. In Of Prairie, Woods, and Water, naturalist Joel Greenberg gathers these unique voices from the land to present an unexpected portrait of Chicago in this often charming, sometimes heart-wrenching anthology of nature writing.
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