Heart stays country
Subtitle: meditations from the southern Flint Hills
By: Gary Lantz
Series: A bur oak book; Bur oak book
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781609385293; 9781609385309
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel; Prairies; Country life; Natural history; Local History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: At home on prairie earth; title: Clarion call; title: A creek called Walks in the Night; title: Dancing up a prairie sunrise; title: Save the last dance; title: Ferns prone to take a stroll; title: Renewal at a slow burn; title: A song of wind and changing seasons; title: A time of frogs, toads, and tiny flowers; title: Night of the banshees; title: Ghostly bird dreams on melancholy mornings; title: Daffodils; title: Notes from the Konza country; title: The grassland legacy of J.E. Weaver; title: Floods mark the beginnings of prairie earth; title: Fuel for a fiery green engine; title: Spring's first warm rain; title: Tugging at the crow's tail; title: Blackberry winter; title: Cicada spring; title: Meandering along with a prairie stream; title: Floating into summer; title: Judge not the brown-headed cowbird; title: A tallgrass summer solstice; title: The curious life of the tumblebug; title: Searching for a prairie queen; title: Of morning haze and lotus flowers; title: Dog day homicide; title: A few thoughts about Aesop's favorite loafer; title: A season spun in gold; title: Butterfly summer; title: The mostly misunderstood copperhead; title: An Osage Thoreau; title: Poet of the prairie; title: Gone in November; title: Prairie giants; title: On the wings of eagles; title: Pastures of plenty; title: The Ghost Springs of Sycamore Creek.