Along The Wisconsin Riverway (A North Coast Book)

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The Lower Wisconsin River is without doubt one of the last long stretches of undammed waterway within the Midwest. This exquisite photo essay reveals the timelessness of the river and the land along its banks—primeval sloughs, towering bluffs with their sandstone terraces, wetlands awash in spring floods, and low prairies so wealthy and varied that they yield both cactus and cattails.
     Jill Metcoff has spent some twenty years photographing the ninety-three miles of the lower river from Prairie du Sac to the Mississippi with antique large- and medium-format cameras. These 104 photographs, lavishly printed and evocatively capturing the landscape in shades of black and white, are within the tradition of Eliot Porter and H. H. Bennett. They’re accompanied during the book by “voices” of the region, including Aldo Leopold, August Derleth, John Muir, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Frank Lloyd Wright, in addition to up to date voices from public hearings on the way forward for the Lower Wisconsin riverway.
     This landscape—eons old and left untouched by the glaciers that ground much of Wisconsin’s ancient landforms into gravel—has escaped major development regardless of its location within 200 miles of more than twenty million people. But all that could change the following day. Metcoff’s work is a passionate appeal to view and value the riverway in all its variety and grandeur.

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