Language English Publication date Dec. 21, 2015 Pages 240 pp (first edition) Originally published 21 December 2015 Genre Coffee table book Country United States of America | Publisher Morning Dew Press Media type Print ISBN 978-0-9963119-0-8 Illustrator Mike MacDonald | |
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My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago is a coffee table book authored by Mike MacDonald, with forewords by Bill Kurtis and Stephen Packard. The book is a visual and educational journey through the prairies, savannas and nature preserves of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Contents
The book contains more than 200 landscape photographs and nearly two dozen essays and poems written by MacDonald about Chicago's wild side, ranging in geography from the lakefront to prairie lands just north of the border, to Kankakee, Lockport, Batavia and McHenry County.
Reception
The book was positively received, including a review from Publishers Weekly, which said of My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago, "this impressive, cloth-bound debut is a lucid perspective on the prairie and its native plants and animals; it is celebratory, soulful and poetic, evoking a strong affection for Chicago's unchecked wilderness in a city best known for its iconic lakefront and skyscrapers."
Influence
My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago served as the basis for the website ChicagoNatureNow.com! The website is a digital catalog of Chicago's forest preserves, and provides updates of the area's natural events.