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Keith County Journal
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Author
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John Janovy Jr.
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Publisher
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Nebraska
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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8
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0.6
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ISBN
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9780803275881
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Pages/Publication Date
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210/1996
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Daedalus Item Code
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80534
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To learn from nature, not about nature, was the imperative that took John Janovy Jr. and his students into the sandhills, marshes, grasslands, canyons, lakes, and streams of Keith County in western Nebraska. Here he explores the web of interrelationships among land, animals, and human beings. Even termites, snails, and barn swallows earn respect and assume significance in the overall scheme of things in this "gracefully written, horizon-expanding book" (NYTBR). "Good biologist though [Janovy] is, he's an even better nature writer, with a special affinity for the mysterious and the mystic."—Noel Perrin "Keith County Journal has already invited comparison with such lapidary works as Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek…. Like Blake seeing a world in a grain of sand, Professor Janovy discerns universes in the creeks, bogs and fields of the Sandhills country. He makes the reader care for creatures as large as the great blue heron, as small as the inch-long plains killifish."—Time
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