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A National Book Award Winner: The Echo Maker: A Novel

A National Book Award Winner: The Echo Maker: A Novel Book Reviews / Society and Animals 15 (2007) 299-307 301 A National Book Award Winner: Th e Echo Maker: A Novel. Richard Powers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 ISBN-13: 978-037414635, $25.00 In the January/February 2007 issue of Sierra , a photograph by Michael Forsberg of the “elegant courtship dance” of the sandhill cranes on the Platte River in Nebraska, accompa- nies a commentary adapted from Forsberg’s (2004) On Ancient Wings : Between late February and mid-April, about 500,000 sandhill cranes, roughly 80% of the world’s population, descend on the Platte River Valley, a sliver of threatened habitat critical to North America’s Central Flyway. Th ey come from scattered wintering grounds in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico. Th ey rest and refuel for nearly a month before beginning their long journeys to northern breeding grounds as far as the Canadian Arctic, western Alaska, and northeastern Siberia. (p. 21) Foresberg’s (2004/2007) commentary is further highlighted with a quotation from Leop- old’s (1949) A Sand County Almanac: “Th e ultimate value in these marshes is wildness, and the crane is wildness incarnate” (p. 21). My review of Th e Echo Maker —the Native American name for the sandhill http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Society & Animals Brill

A National Book Award Winner: The Echo Maker: A Novel

Society & Animals , Volume 15 (3): 301 – Jan 1, 2007

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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1063-1119
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1568-5306
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10.1163/156853007X217230
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Book Reviews / Society and Animals 15 (2007) 299-307 301 A National Book Award Winner: Th e Echo Maker: A Novel. Richard Powers. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 ISBN-13: 978-037414635, $25.00 In the January/February 2007 issue of Sierra , a photograph by Michael Forsberg of the “elegant courtship dance” of the sandhill cranes on the Platte River in Nebraska, accompa- nies a commentary adapted from Forsberg’s (2004) On Ancient Wings : Between late February and mid-April, about 500,000 sandhill cranes, roughly 80% of the world’s population, descend on the Platte River Valley, a sliver of threatened habitat critical to North America’s Central Flyway. Th ey come from scattered wintering grounds in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico. Th ey rest and refuel for nearly a month before beginning their long journeys to northern breeding grounds as far as the Canadian Arctic, western Alaska, and northeastern Siberia. (p. 21) Foresberg’s (2004/2007) commentary is further highlighted with a quotation from Leop- old’s (1949) A Sand County Almanac: “Th e ultimate value in these marshes is wildness, and the crane is wildness incarnate” (p. 21). My review of Th e Echo Maker —the Native American name for the sandhill

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