Back in Keith County - Hardcover
This collection of penetrating, beautifully written essays ranges over a variety of subjects, including the inhabitants of Keith County--human and otherwise--and the goings on at a Geneva meeting of the World Health Organization
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About the Author:
John Janovy Jr. is Varner Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and director of the Cedar Point Biological Station. He is the author of Keith County Journal and On Becoming a Biologist, also available as a Bison Book.
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"Good biologist though [Janovy] is, he's an even better nature writer, with a special affinity for the mysterious and the mystic."—Noel Perrin (Noel Perrin)
"This ‘human need for wilderness’ is the trail winding through Back in Keith County . . . [to] the streams of John Janovy’s ‘inner cowboy country.’ The fourteen essays are a very human mix of biology, sentiment, wandering observation and personal philosophy."—Smithsonian (Smithsonian)
"Janovy’s earlier Keith County Journal “met with astonishing success, and some reviewers compared the author to Henry David Thoreau. Back in Keith County returns to the part of Nebraska that Mr. Janovy knows and loves. . . . The book shows the area’s wildlife—tiger beetles, toads, swallows, owls and a variety of fish—to be as special as its people. . . . The author also reflects on the intangible aspects of life. . . . The rich ramblings of these 179 pages are fascinating."—Kansas City Star (Kansas City Star)
"John Janovy has produced his best book. . . . He gives us a superb example of nature writing and of life in the Great Plains, perhaps surpassing such admired works in the genre as Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac and William Warner’s Beautiful Swimmers. Janovy takes us on a journey of intellectual serendipity, deriving extraordinary thoughts from ordinary circumstances."—Washington Post (Washington Post)
"This ‘human need for wilderness’ is the trail winding through Back in Keith County . . . [to] the streams of John Janovy’s ‘inner cowboy country.’ The fourteen essays are a very human mix of biology, sentiment, wandering observation and personal philosophy."—Smithsonian (Smithsonian)
"Janovy’s earlier Keith County Journal “met with astonishing success, and some reviewers compared the author to Henry David Thoreau. Back in Keith County returns to the part of Nebraska that Mr. Janovy knows and loves. . . . The book shows the area’s wildlife—tiger beetles, toads, swallows, owls and a variety of fish—to be as special as its people. . . . The author also reflects on the intangible aspects of life. . . . The rich ramblings of these 179 pages are fascinating."—Kansas City Star (Kansas City Star)
"John Janovy has produced his best book. . . . He gives us a superb example of nature writing and of life in the Great Plains, perhaps surpassing such admired works in the genre as Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac and William Warner’s Beautiful Swimmers. Janovy takes us on a journey of intellectual serendipity, deriving extraordinary thoughts from ordinary circumstances."—Washington Post (Washington Post)
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0312064837
- ISBN 13 9780312064839
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages179
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BACK IN KEITH COUNTY
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