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John Janovy "has produced his best book. . . . He gives us a superb example of nature writing and of life in the Great Plains, perhaps surpassing such admired works in the genre as Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and William Warner's Beautiful Swimmers. Janovy takes us on a journey of intellectual serendipity, deriving extraordinary thoughts from ordinary circumstances."-Washington Post. "This 'human need for wilderness' is the trail winding through Back in Keith County . . . [to] the streams of John Janovy's 'inner cowboy country.' The fourteen essays are a very human mix of biology, sentiment, wandering observation and personal philosophy."-Smithsonian. Janovy's earlier Keith County Journal "met with astonishing success, and some reviewers compared the author to Henry David Thoreau. Back in Keith County returns to the part of Nebraska that Mr. Janovy knows and loves. . . . The book shows the area's wildlife-tiger beetles, toads, swallows, owls and a variety of fish-to be as special as its people. . . . The author also reflects on the intangible aspects of life. . . . The rich ramblings of these 179 pages are fascinating."-Kansas City Star. John Janovy Jr. is Varner Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and director of the Cedar Point Biological Station. He is the author of Keith County Journal and On Becoming a Biologist, also available as a Bison Book.
Three books by biologist Janovy offer intimate looks at the natural world and the web of relationships among living things. (Mar.)
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Katrina Siroonian
reviewed Back in Keith County on July 25, 2013
Back in Keith County
There's very little information about the Dr. Gray of Gray's Anatomy that survives, which is problematic for a biographer. There's more about Gray's illustrator, Dr. Carter, but not *that* much more. And so, to fill the pages, we get author Bill Hayes' personal life and his investigations into Gray and Carter.
Sometimes this was a good thing. Even better than good: the parts where Hayes takes and re-takes anatomy with students of different medical professions were great. I've been able to spend a limited amount of time in a cadaver lab (fortunately, not as a demonstration specimen), and appreciated Hayes' detailed view of the goings-on. But, all in all, I wasn't nearly as interested in Hayes' adventures, neuroses, and feelings as he is.
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