For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the Nebraska prairie, she fell ill, and only when she decided to return home did she recover. Homesickness is the triggering event for this collection of essays concerned with nothing less than what it means to feel at home. Knopp writes masterfully about ecology, place, and the values and beliefs that sustain the individual within an impersonal world. She is passionate about her subject whether it be an endangered beetle in the salt marshes near Lincoln, Nebraska, a forgotten Nebraska inventor, a museum...
For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the Nebraska prairie, she fell ill, and only when she decided t...
Offers a group photograph of the Midwest's interior landscape. This title includes an essay about the origin, history, and influence of corn. It explores childhood meeting with Frederick Leopold, youngest brother of the naturalist Aldo. It captures the inner character of the Midwest as Nature dictates it, people live it, and history reveals it.
Offers a group photograph of the Midwest's interior landscape. This title includes an essay about the origin, history, and influence of corn. It explo...
In this informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, Lisa Knopp explores the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, rivers she has come to understand and cherish. At the same time, she contemplates how people experience landscape, identifying three primary roles of environmental perception: the insider, the outsider, and the outsider seeking to become an insider. Viewing the waterways through these approaches, she searches for knowledge and meaning.Because Knopp was born and raised just a few blocks away, she considers the Mississippi from the...
In this informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, Lisa Knopp explores the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, an...
When she was 54, Lisa Knopp s weight dropped to a number on the scale that she hadn t seen since seventh grade. The severe food restricting that left her thin and sick when she was 15 and 25 had returned. This time, she was determined to understand the causes of her malady and how she could heal from a condition that is caused by a tangle of genetic, biological, familial, psychological, cultural, and spiritual factors. This compelling memoir, at once a food and illness narrative, explores the forces that cause eating disorders and disordered eating, including the link between those...
When she was 54, Lisa Knopp s weight dropped to a number on the scale that she hadn t seen since seventh grade. The severe food restricting that le...