| RYERSON
READS ~ season 4
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Wednesdays,
7:30 - 9:00 PM
$15 per
person per session or $10 FRW members
~Sign up for the entire series~
$45 per person or $30 FRW members
Benjamin
Goluboff,
a professor of English at Lake forest College, will lead lively
discussions on the classics of American nature literature.
September
19, 2007
Refuge:
An Unnatural History of Family and Place
by Terry Tempest Williams
This poignant personal memoir juxtaposes the death of
the author’s mother with the loss by flooding of
the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. Williams, a Mormon
and an accomplished naturalist, writes of her native Utah
with passion and precision. |
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November
14, 2007
The
Founding Fish
by John McPhee
The natural history of the shad, from its evolutionary
role to its appearances in American history, by a master
of nonfiction prose. |
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January
16, 2008
The
Practice of the Wild: Essays
by Gary Snyder
Nine essays by the Beat-generation poet and philosopher
of nature, the volume centers on the loss of American
local knowledge of the outdoors. |
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March
19 , 2008
John
James Audubon: The Making of An American
by Richard Rhodes
A masterful biography of one of the world’s master
naturalists. |
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See
Ryerson
Woods at the
Lake County Forest Preserve web site for a complete list
of our progams and events. |
Rufuge: An Unnatural
History of Family and Place
by Terry Tempest Williams
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