Cabin Fever: Dialogues with Nature

By Richard E. Carter

While living in northern Illinois and Wisconsin, Carter began to feel the soul of the Earth and the exquisite divinity of Mother Nature. He shares his personal essays, beautifully illustrated by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880090201
• ISBN13: 9781880090206
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Galde Press, Inc.
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Wildlife essays from Illinois and Wisconsin

Chicagoans and other northern Illinois natives have an innate migration instinct: they *must* vacation in Wisconsin. It is the dream devoutly to be wished, and God help anyone who trys to buck border traffic on I-90 and I-94 on a Friday or Sunday afternoon. Carter follows this trend, and even though some of these essays show that his interest in nature begins in Illinois -- with a trip down the Des Plaines River and one through the Skokie Lagoons -- it's the title essay and his experiences with Wisconsin land ownership that are the most personal. Door County is the armlike peninsula that stretches northeastward into Lake Michigan. It could be considered to be the Cape Cod of the Midwest. Carter was inspired to first visit that part of Wisconsin by the work of landscape architect Jens Jensen. Then Carter himself bought some property there, cleared it a little, and sat in the middle of it on a folding chair. Eventually he decided a homemade cabin would be more practical. In Thoreauvian style, he lets us in on the building process. And he shares his encounters with the animals and plants around him. His words are accompanied by the exquisite pencil drawings of Carolyn Kenney. The pictures alone are worth the price of the volume.It might be difficult to get hold of this book, but naturalists living in either IL or WI would benefit from owning their own copies. [This reviewer was an Illinois resident when these comments were written.]