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Mice
in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch
The
Lives of Naturalists Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom
Helen
McGavran Corneli
FOREWORD
BY GEORGE ARCHIBALD
A love story among the prairie chickens
Mice in the Freezer, Owls on
the Porch is in many ways a love
story—about a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, but
also about their passions for hunting, for wild lands, and for
the grouse and raptor species that they were instrumental in
saving from destruction.
From the papers and letters of Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom,
the reminiscences of contemporaries, and her own long friendship
with this extraordinary couple who were her neighbors, Helen
Corneli draws an intimate picture of Fran and "Hammy"
from childhood through the genesis and maturation of a romantic,
creative, and scientific relationship. Following the Hamerstroms
as they give up a life of sophisticated convention and comfort
for the more "civilized" (as Aldo Leopold would have
it) pleasures of living and conducting on-the-spot research into
diminishing species, Corneli captures the spirit of the Hamerstroms,
their profession, and the natural and human environments in which
they worked. A nuanced account of the labors, adventures, and
achievements that distinguished the Hamerstroms over the years—and
that inspired a generation of naturalists—this book also
provides a dramatic account of conservation history over the
course of the twentieth century, particularly in Wisconsin from
the 1920s through the 1970s.
"Why were Fran and Hammy so admired
and loved? Because of the example they have set. They never forgot
that field research is the naturalist's fountain of knowledge
and they never stopped asking searching questions."—Ernst
Mayr, Harvard University
Helen McGavran
Corneli is
professor emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens
Point. Helen Corneli has been honored with
Outstanding Achievement recognition by the Wisconsin Library
Association Literary Awards committee for her book Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch: The Lives
of Naturalists Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom
For more information contact
our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
Of related interest
My
Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist
Frances Hamerstrom
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FIRST
PAPERBACK EDITION
September 2006
LC: 2002002338 QH
368 pp. 6 x 9 43 b/w photos
ISBN: 0-299-18094-8 Paper $24.95 t
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-18094-2
Still
available
in the cloth edition, published January 2003
ISBN 0-299-18090-5 Cloth $29.95 t
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