by Dan Corrigan $18.00, 224 pages, soft cover Show-Me . . . Natural Wonders is an escape manual—a guidebook to special places right in our own backyard. It shows how natural wonders can provide plenty of refuge and how they’re available right here in the heartland. Enter the pages of this book, and you will soon find yourself hiking up tall bluffs; scrambling along the banks of springs and streams; descending into the underground wilderness of Missouri’s many caves; or simply kicking back for a rest on a 500-million-year-old boulder in a country glade at sunset. With soothing and inspiring prose by journalist Don Corrigan, and with detailed nature illustrations by renowned pencil artist Ed Thias, Show-Me . . . Natural Wonders is at once both a practical how-to book and a prized keepsake. With images and descriptions of nearly 100 nature sites in the Show-Me State and adjacent areas, the book has a little something for everybody. Hikers and bikers, cavers and climbers, New Agers and environmentalists, local and regional historians, poets and prophets will all find something to take away from the experience of Show-Me . . . Natural Wonders. |