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Zwinger, Ann Haymond was born on March 12, 1925 in Muncie, Indiana, United States. Daughter of William Thomas Haymond and Helen Louise Glass.
( Known for her observant and beautifully illustrated boo...)
Known for her observant and beautifully illustrated books on the rivers, deserts, and mountains of the West, Ann Haymond Zwinger focuses here on her guiding principles as a naturalist as she "looks" with notebook and pencil, believing that "to know the world intimately is the beginning of caring."
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( This book is about the reality of Colorado: not just th...)
This book is about the reality of Colorado: not just the pretty images of postcards and promotions, but a varied, vibrant land. Muench's insightful photography captures a Colorado both rare and elemental.
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( Every writer comes to the Colorado River in the Grand C...)
Every writer comes to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon with a unique point of view. Ann Zwinger's is that of a naturalist, an "observer at the river's brim." Teamed with scientists and other volunteer naturalists, Zwinger was part of an ongoing study of change along the Colorado. In all seasons and all weathers, in almost every kind of craft that goes down the waves, she returned to the Grand Canyon again and again to explore, look, and listen. From the thrill of running the rapids to the wonder in a grain of sand, her words take the reader down 280 miles of the "ever-flowing, energetic, whooping and hollering, galloping" river. Zwinger's book begins with a bald eagle count at Nankoweap Creek in January and ends with a subzero, snowy walk out of the canyon at winter solstice. Between are the delights of spring in side canyons, the benediction of rain on a summer beach, and the chill that comes off limestone walls in November. Her eye for detail catches the enchantment of small things played against the immensity of the river: the gatling-gun love song of tree frogs; the fragile beauty of an evening primrose; ravens "always in close attendance, like lugubrious, sharp-eyed, nineteenth-century undertakers"; and a golden eagle chasing a trout "with wings akimbo like a cleaning lady after a cockroach." As she travels downstream, Zwinger follows others in history who have risked—and occasionally lost—their lives on the Colorado. Hiking in narrow canyons, she finds cliff dwellings and broken pottery of prehistoric Indians. Rounding a bend or running a rapid, she remembers the triumphs and tragedies of early explorers and pioneers. She describes the changes that have come with putting a big dam on a big river and how the dam has affected the riverine flora and fauna as well as the rapids and their future. Science in the hands of a poet, this captivating book is for armchair travelers who may never see the grandiose Colorado and for those who have run it wisely and well. Like the author, readers will find themselves bewitched by the color and flow of the river, and enticed by what's around the next bend. With her, they will find its rhythms still in the mind, long after the splash and spray and pound are gone.
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(A Desert County Near The Seas is a prize-winning naturali...)
A Desert County Near The Seas is a prize-winning naturalist's personal guide to the flora, fauna, and history of a fascinating region. For fifteen years Ann Zwinger, winner of the John Burroughs Medal award, has been visiting the southern tip of Baja California, the long peninsula that juts southeast below the California-Mexico border. Captivated by the area's harsh beauty, it's dramatic contrast of arid desert and tropical sea, she has climbed its rocky, 5,000-foot mountains, explored its great variety of beaches and tidepools, trekked through miles of its cactus-covered low country, and come to know the people who live there and their turbulent history. Supplementing her acute observatrions and personal adventures with extensive research, including readings on the geology, botany, and marine biology of the region from the works of many other observers and visitors, Mrs. Zwinger has produced a book whose running text and many drawings - plus more than 40 photographs by her husband, Herman Zwinger - will delight the armchair adventurer, traveler, and naturalist, and whose detailed scientific information will be invaluable to students and researchers.
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( Lively, readable nature writing. As she details several...)
Lively, readable nature writing. As she details several treks through the beautiful, rocky canyons, Zwinger's feel for the animals and plants native to this arid region enhances the precise sketches which punctuate the text. Readers interested in ancient Indian cultures of the Southwest will also find fascinating reading, as Zwinger describes their campsites and lifestyles. —Library Journal
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(No longer are the great outdoors the province of men and ...)
No longer are the great outdoors the province of men and men alone; in recent years the feminist movement has brought women out of the home in force, to commune with nature and the environment on their own terms. This compilation of word and image celebrates the deep connection between women and the wild, drawing upon the work of award-winning author Margaret E. Murie, naturalist Cathy Johnson, Native American Robin Youngblood and others. Exquisite photographs by Kathleen N. Cook, Pat Leeson, Nancy Simmerman and Kathy Clay complement the text, and almost overwhelm it.
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(The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger’s subject in prose a...)
The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger’s subject in prose and drawing. There, 8,300 feet above sea level, summer is short and winter long and often harsh; it is a place where much of life exists on the margin. In good years the grasses are lush; in bad years, even the mice starve. But it is a land the Zwingers have lovingly explored and recorded, careful not to disrupt the balance of the land, the relationship of plant to animal and of each to its environment. These forty acres, called Constant Friendship after the Maryland land her ancestor settled in the early 1730s, are "a place of all seasons, for even in winter there is a promise of spring, and in spring the foretaste of summer. The white of snow becomes the white of summer clouds, the resonant green of spruce becomes the green head of drake mallard … here part of each season is contained in every other." In beautiful and simple language and with 80 illustrations, "Beyond the Aspen Grove" tells of meadow, lake, marsh and forest, of algae and dragonflies, of deer and jays that live in the thin clear air of the mountain world. "Ann Swinger’s "Beyond the Aspen Grove" takes us to the Montane Zone of Colorado (7,000 to 9,000 feet) to walk her land with her, to savor the immense variety of life to be found there, above and below ground, in its streams, meadows, under the surface of a lake and among its groves of aspen and Ponderosa pine. The book is a compendium of information, packed densely with meat like a rich nut … a work of love that is also a work of science and a work of art." —May Sarton in "The New York Times Book Review"
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(Ann Zwiger tells in beautiful and simple language, illust...)
Ann Zwiger tells in beautiful and simple language, illustrated by her own superb drawings, of forty acres of meadow, lake, marsh and forest in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado - of the algae and dragonflies, of deer and jays that live in the clear air at 8,300 feet above sea level. Here summer is short and winter long and often harsh, and much of life exists on the margin: in good years the grasses are lush; in bad years even the mice starve. But always it is a place of all seasons.
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COURTESY OF LowCountryBookstore: The alpine tundra of the United States has never been described for the interested novice. There are numerous accounts of the tundra in the Alps - of its flowers, of adventures climbing on it, of general description - in three languages. But in North America, this single major vegetation type has been overlooked until now. This book brings together for the first time in one place most of what is known about the alpine tundra of the United States. (From Preface of book.)
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Zwinger, Ann Haymond was born on March 12, 1925 in Muncie, Indiana, United States. Daughter of William Thomas Haymond and Helen Louise Glass.
Bachelor, Wellesley University, 1946. Master of Arts in Art History, Indiana University, 1950. Postgraduate, Radcliffe College, 1952.
Postgraduate, Colorado College, 1980. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Colorado College, 1976. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Carleton College, 1984.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Colorado, 2001.
Graduate assistant art history Indiana University, 1947-1950. Instructor art history Smith College, 1950-1951. Instructor adult education courses University Kansas City, 1958-1960.
Instructor art Benet Hill Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1963-1965. Visiting lecturer Colorado College, since 1983, professor English and Southwest studies, since 1987. Naturalist-in-residence Carleton College, 1985.
Board directors, co-founder Utility Women's Conference, 1984—1997, chair, 1984—1986. Naturalist, consultant Catamount Institute, Wild and Scenic Expeditions. Naturalist, consultant, faculty Grand Canyon Field Expeditions, Four Corners School Outdoor Education, Grand Field School Circuit.
Faculty Canyonlands Field Institute, North Cascades Institute. Vice chair Grand Circuit Field School, since 2003.
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(Ann Zwiger tells in beautiful and simple language, illust...)
(Zwinger) respectfully explores the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, M...)
(No longer are the great outdoors the province of men and ...)
(A Desert County Near The Seas is a prize-winning naturali...)
( This book is about the reality of Colorado: not just th...)
(COURTESY OF LowCountryBookstore: The alpine tundra of the...)
( Most people would not think of it as a desert, but the ...)
( Every writer comes to the Colorado River in the Grand C...)
( Seeking out wildflowers and whitewater, Ann Zwinger has...)
(The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger’s subject in prose a...)
(The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger’s subject in prose a...)
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Trustee Colorado Springs School, 1970-1974, The Palmer Foundation, 1984-1990. Director Thorne Ecological Foundation, 1979-1981. Director emerita The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, Colorado, 1986-1997.
Board directors Public Broadcasting Service-Channel 6, Denver, 1996-2002, The Catamount Institute, since 2002, Grand Circuit Field School. Member The Orion Society (board directors 1996-2003), John Burroughs Association (director since 1982), The Thoreau Society (president 1982-1984), The Author's Guild, The Colorado Authors' League, Guild Natural Science Illustrators, Xerces Society.
Married Herman Hirshfield Zwinger, June 18, 1952. Children: Susan, Jane, Sara Z. Roberts.