Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices Over America's Wetlands AUTH-10191085 ISBN10: 0199688362

ISBN10: 0199688362

" So wrote Germaine Tillion in Le Monde shortly after Mouloud Feraoun's assassination by a right wing French terrorist group

Imagine a life where you can dream

and a bit of luck

In an age of increasing dematerialization

Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices Over America's Wetlands AUTH-10191085 ISBN10: 0199688362Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. "I suspect," he says, "that the migrating cranes of a pre ice age period some ten million years ago would fully understand every nuance of the crane conversation going on today along the Platte." Johnsgard has spent nearly a half century observing cranes, from a yearly foray to Nebraska's Platte River valley to see the spring migration, to