Nature Writing & Essays 

Peter Dunne has devoted his life to connecting people with nature. He does so professionally, as vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society and as the author of more than ten nature books, and personally, as an avid birder, naturalist, and hunter. In his latest quest to strengthen the relationship between people and their environment, Pete Dunne and his wife, Linda, venture to the prairie. Spring on the prairie is where half a million migrating cranes' conjoined cries fill the air, and where storms as black as prairie earth darken the skies. Against this dramatic backdrop, he explores human relationships, through a high school baseball game and a trysting place, for example, and humans' relationship with the land, through fire, Smokey Bear, and tourism. Pete Dunne's poetic account reminds people of their alienation from the natural world, making the case that who and what we are is grounded in the world around us, wherever we are. In this first of four seasonal narratives, Pete Dunne brilliantly depicts both the glorious prairie spring and the colorful people he meets there.

Pete Dunne is the author of eleven books, including Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion and Pete Dunne on Bird Watching. He is vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society and director of its Cape May Bird Observatory.

Taken from the inside flaps.