Marshes : The Disappearing Edens / John Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, John, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marshes.

Marshes--North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawn since boyhood to the beauty and allure of marshes, naturalist William Burt has prowled them by day and night, in every season, from one edge of North America to the other. For thirty years he has hauled his large-format camera with him, seeking to capture on film the elusive birds, the wildflowers and grasses, and the unique wild beauty of the marshes. In this breathtakingly lovely book, he selects ninety of his most striking photographs. He also offers his reflections on the marshes he has visited, inviting his readers to come with him and become acquainted with this hidden world, its richness, and its vulnerability.Burt explores marshes near and far, from Connecticut to Manitoba, the Gulf of Mexico, California's Central Valley, the Northern Plains, and elsewhere. His photographs explore all aspects and seasons of marsh life but focus especially on such shy inhabitants as rails, bitterns, grebes, and gallinules. While the photographs tell stories of their own, Burt's narrative invokes the marshes of the past and compares them to today's, with prose as picture-sharp as the photography.No book has ever evoked the mystery and beauty of the marshes so compellingly as this by William Burt. And no reader, having accompanied the author to this secret world, will fail to appreciate the rare privilege of having been there.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Color Plates

Preface

Introduction

One. Connecticut Home Marsh

Two. To Maryland and a Big-league Meadow

Three. Manitoba Sedges

Four. South and Along Coasts

Five. South and Along Coasts

Six. South and Along Coasts

Seven. Saskatchewan Plains, Sloughs, and a Certain Eden

Afterword

About Photography

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300145021

0300145020

OCLC:

884499438