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Cover Page, Copyright, Dedication
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Debbie Scott Newman
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Introduction
Part One - River Life
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Chapter 1 - An Affinity for Rivers
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Chapter 2 - A Sense of Place
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Chapter 3 - Slow and Steady: A Life of Encounters with Illinois' Great Blue Heron
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Chapter 4 - Starved Rock and the Illinois River's Locks and Dams
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Chapter 5 - An Illinois River Canoeing Journal: Nature's Ways on Illinois' Busy Waterway
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Chapter 6 - Illinois' Continental Divide: Mud Lake and the Chicago Portage
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Chapter 7 - Timeless Scenes Along the Illinois River
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Chapter 8 - Bald Eagles on a Morning Commute
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Chapter 9 - The Eagle Quest
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Chapter 10 - Wings Over the River
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Chapter 11 - First Glimpse of the Upper Mississippi River Valley
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Chapter 12 - A Lesson in Nature's Dynamics: Barton-Sommer's Woodland
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Chapter 13 - Dead Trees, Disturbance, and Illinois' Red-headed Woodpeckers
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Chapter 14 - From the Misery Index to Havana
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Chapter 15 - The Shorbirds Among Us
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Chapter 16 - When Hawks Fly
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Chapter 17 - Carrying on an Electro-shocking Legacy
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Chapter 18 - Nature Along the Margins at Cooper Park Wetlands
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Chapter 19 - As the Rivers Rise Again
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Chapter 20 - The Gizzard Shad in Nature's Economy
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Chapter 21 - In Praise of Sitting and Staring
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Part Two - Travel
Chapter 22 - Pursuing the Blue Goose Across Illinois
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Chapter 23 - Eulogy for an Oak
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Chapter 24 - Drawn to Antiquity
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Chapter 25 - A Western Birding Excursion: Of Wind, Rain, Rocks, and Renewal
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Chapter 26 - Ties
Chapter 27 - From a Great Lakes Journal: Of Sand, Glaciers, and Birds
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Chapter 28 - Encounters with the Niagara River
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Chapter 29 - Taking in the American Bottom
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Chapter 30 - Isle Royale: A Wilderness Island in Lake Superior
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Chapter 31 - Epilogue: Thoughts on Twenty-five Years as a Naturalist
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Acknowledgments