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Miracle Under the Oaks
by William K. Stevens

Learn more in “Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness,” CW Winter 2006

Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes
by J. Ronald Engel

Learn more in “Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness,” CW Winter 2006

Raising Kane: The Fox Chronicles
by Ray Fox, aka Jim Phillips

Copies are available from Friends of the Fox River.
E-mail jhoward@friendsofthefoxriver.org. $20.

Learn more in “Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness,” CW Winter 2006

A Prairie Grove
by Donald Culross Peattie

Learn more in “Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness,” CW Winter 2006

Other books by Donald Culross Peattie

An Almanac for Moderns, (1935)

Singing in the Wilderness: A Salute to John James Audubon, (1935)

Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists, (1936)

Flowering Earth: Wood Engravings by Paul Landacre, (1939)

The Road of a Naturalist, (1941)

Immortal Village, (1945)

A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central America, (1950)

A Natural History of Western Trees, (1953)

Profile of Peattie and list of his books in CW Fall 2000

Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait
by Terry Evans

Learn more in “Revealing Chicago,” CW Summer 2005

Hunting for Frogs on Elston, and Other Tales from Field and Street
by Jerry Sullivan

Learn more in “Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness,” CW Winter 2006, & Review in CW Summer 2004

By Willoway Brook: Exploring The Landscape of Prayer
by Cindy Crosby.

Review in CW Summer 2003

The Chicago River, A Natural and Unnatural History
by Libby Hill.

August 2000, Lake Claremont Press; paperback.

Learn more in “Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness,” CW Winter 2006, & CW Review Winter 2001

A Natural History of the Chicago Region
by Joel Greenberg

University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Learn more in “Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness,” CW Winter 2006, & Review in CW Winter 2003

Windy City Wild: Chicago's Natural Wonders
by Robert Shaw and Jason Lindsay, with foreword by Bill Kurtis. Chicago Review Press, 2000.

Learn more in Review in CW Fall 2000

Plants of the Chicago Region
by Floyd Swink and Gerould Wilhelm, 1994.

Learn more in “Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness,” CW Winter 2006, & Review and profile of Local Hero Floyd Swink in CW Summer 1999

Dune Boy: The Early Years of a Naturalist
by Edwin Way Teale, reissue 2002.

Learn more in Profile of Edwin Way Teale, CW Summer 2001

See also other books by Teale

Reading the Landscape of America
by May Theilgaard Watts, 1999.

Learn more in “Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness,” CW Winter 2006, & Profile of local hero May Watts in CW Winter 1999

Other books by May Watts available through Amazon.com:

Tree Finder: A Manual for Identification of Trees by Their Leaves, 1991.

Winter Tree Finder, 1970.

Flower Finder, 1955.

Desert Tree Finder: A Pocket Manual for Identifying Desert Trees, 1974.

Reading the Landscape of Europe, 1971.

Wild Plants in Flower
by Torkel Korling

Chicago Review Press, 1994.

Profile of Torkel Korling in CW Summer 2000

Siftings
by Jens Jensen, 1990.

See Chicago Renaissance, guest essay saluting Jensen's book, CW Fall 1997

Jens Jensen, Maker of Natural Parks & Gardens
by Robert E. Grese, 1998.

Profile of Jens Jensen, CW Spring 2001