Back in Keith County

Good biologist though [Janovy] is hes an even better nature writer with a special affinity for the mysterious and the mystic.-Noel Perrin This human need for wilderness is the trail winding through Back in Keith County . . . [to] the streams of John Janovys inner cowboy country. The fourteen essays are a very human mix of biology sentiment wandering observation and personal philosophy.-Smithsonian John Janovy Jr. is Varner Professor at the School of Biological Sciences University of Nebraska-Lincoln and director of the Cedar Point Biological Station. He is the author of Keith County Journal and On Becoming a Biologist also available as a Bison Book.