Book Review - Prairie Birds: Fragile Splendor in the Great Plains

Authors

Neil P. Bernstein, Mount Mercy CollegeFollow

Document Type

General Interest Article

Abstract

Paul A. Johnsguard has established himself as one of the most prolific natural history writers in the recent past. Indeed, before I could finish reading Prairie Birds, the University of Kansas Press sent me The Nature of Nebraska, also by Johnsguard. These works follow closely after This Fragile Land, A Natural History of the Nebraska Sandhills (1995), which I favorably reviewed a few years ago, also about the Great Plains. It goes without saying, that there is a fair amount of overlap in these works, both in the subject matter and the illustrations. Rather than criticize the overlap among these books, I will focus on the Prairie Birds and assume that Johnsguard's intent is to provide a diversity of resources on Nebraska and the Great Plains that will appeal to a variety of individuals.

Publication Date

March-June 2002

Journal Title

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

109

Issue

1-2

First Page

41

Last Page

42

Copyright

© Copyright 2002 by the Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

EN

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Bernstein, Neil P. (2002) "Book Review - Prairie Birds: Fragile Splendor in the Great Plains," Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS, 109(1-2), 41-42.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/jias/vol109/iss1/10