Living Landscapes of Kansas - Hardcover

Reichman, O.J.; Mulligan, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700607277 ISBN 13: 9780700607273

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 1995

Synopsis

This luminous volume offers a rich feast of words and images depicting nature's unexpected beauty in Kansas. With a keen ecological sense, O. J. Reichman and Steve Mulligan present a breathtaking reminder of the state's remarkable natural heritage.

Reflecting the marvelous alchemy of earth, wind, fire, and water enacted over countless centuries, Reichman's meditative text and Mulligan's stunning color photographs reveal a wondrously diverse state. Ranging across both widely known and unfamiliar forests and prairies, rivers and lakes, geological formations and botanical splendors, they celebrate this diversity.

Featured in these pages are the sunlit bluffs of the Arikaree River, the Red Hills beneath a winter sky, the meandering Chikaskia River, Castle Rock, Pillsbury Crossing, Keyhole Arch in Monument Rocks National Landmark, Breidenthal Reserve's oak and hickory forests, sweeping waves of Big Bluestem and spring fires on Konza Prairie, Cimarron National Grasslands, the Mill Creek waterfall, Shermerhorn Cave, the wetlands of Cheyenne Bottoms, and a vast array of blooming phlox, columbine, larkspur, butterfly milkweed, dogwood, and wild rose.

More than any previous work, Living Landscapes of Kansas captures the essence of a state alive with natural beauty.

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From the Back Cover

Reflecting the marvelous alchemy of earth, wind, fire, and water enacted over countless centuries, O. J. Reichman's meditative text and Steve Mulligan's stunning color photographs reveal a wondrously diverse state. Ranging across both widely known and unfamiliar forests and prairies, rivers and lakes, geological formations and botanical splendors, they capture the essence of a state alive with natural beauty.

About the Author

O. J. Reichman, author of Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History, is assistant director for research at the National Biological Service in Washington, D.C. He is the coauthor of "Museum Backroom," a TPS documentary for which he won an Emmy.

Steve Mulligan of Moab, Utah, is one of America's leading photographers of the Great Plains. His book Terra Incognita is published by the University Press of Kansas. Since 1993 he has produced the "Wild & Scenic Kansas" photographic calendar.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0700607277
• ISBN 13: 9780700607273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168