An American Safari: Adventures on the North American Prairie

Brandenburg, Jim

ISBN 10: 0802783201 ISBN 13: 9780802783202

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1995

Synopsis

A dramatic photographic and personal record of the beauty and grandeur of the American prairie and its influences on the author-photographer's life also supports saving an endangered ecology. By the award-winning creator of To the Top of the World.

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About the Author

Minnesota photographer, Jim Brandenburg, began his career as a natural history photographer and filmmaker while majoring in studio art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He went on to become Picture Editor at the Worthington Daily Globe in southern Minnesota. While at the Daily Globe, Brandenburg began freelancing for National Geographic.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-5?This personal photo-essay highlights the joy of being a wildlife photographer and the importance, if not critical need, to save the North American prairie and its inhabitants. The book features moving, lively writing with a strong pro-Nature Conservancy message. The excellent photography is clear, colorful, interesting, aesthetic, and informative. Useful material about prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets, bison, and a little on badgers and coyotes is included in Brandenburg's anecdotal story about his career and deep concern for the American prairie. His adventure with a rattlesnake he is photographing is riveting material for a booktalk. Other more evenhanded titles on this subject for this age level are Ron Hirschi's Save Our Prairies and Grasslands (Delacorte, 1994), Lynn M. Stone's Prairies (Rourke, 1989), and Frank Staub's America's Prairies (Carolrhoda, 1993). Those titles are more for reports; this one is more inspirational. David Bouchard's If You're Not from the Prairie... (Atheneum, 1995) is a new narrative with paintings that could be used as a companion piece in a program.?Susannah Price, Boise Public Library, ID
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Edition details

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0802783201
• ISBN 13: 9780802783202
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 48
• Editor: Guernsey Joann Bren