Discover the breathtaking natural beauty of Missouri with “Scenic Natural Wonders of Missouri: Lakes, Trails, Caverns, and Vistas” by Don Corrigan & Diana Linsley. Explore scenic destinations and outdoor adventures across the Show-Me State.
| ST. LOUIS, MO—Reedy Press is pleased to announce the release of our newest local interest book, Scenic Natural Wonders of Missouri: Lakes, Trails, Caverns, and Vistas, by Don Corrigan & Diana Linsley. Scenic Natural Wonders of Missouri is an outdoor nature guide featuring more than 80 sites of natural wonder in the Show-Me State and offers valuable insights on how to visit and enjoy each of them. |
Fascinating vignettes and spectacular photographs immerse readers in special places that distinguish and define Missouri’s natural environment. Hikers and bikers, climbers and environmentalists, poets and philosophers, all will find something to take away from this detailed collection. Photo buffs will love the magnificent images by landscape photographer Diana Linsley. She has captured the essence of such natural locations as Blue Spring, Ha Ha Tonka, Riverlands, Pinnacles, Roger Pryor, and more. The book offers friendly suggestions and advisories on how visitors to Missouri’s natural wonders can enjoy safe and memorable experiences at each location. This is author Don Corrigan’s second nature site guide by Reedy Press. He published Show Me . . . Natural Wonders in 2007.
Scenic Natural Wonders of Missouri is available wherever books are sold.
Book Details: Scenic Natural Wonders of Missouri, by Don Corrigan & Diana Linsley, ISBN: 9781681066431, softcover, 6 x 9, 192 pages, $ 27.00
About the Authors
Don Corrigan has served for more than 40 years as a professor of journalism at Webster University, where he received the Kemper Outstanding Teacher Award and the Presidential Faculty Scholar Award. He also was editor and co-publisher of the Webster-Kirkwood Times, South County Times, and West End Word. Corrigan has received the Lewis C. Green Environmental Service Award, in recognition for his decades of writing in the area of environmental journalism, and for founding the program for the Outdoor/Environmental Journalism Writing Certificate at Webster University.
Diana Linsley has been a professional photographer for more than 40 years. She has exhibited her nature photography at galleries throughout Missouri. She served as photographer for the Webster-Kirkwood Times, South County Times, and West End Word for several decades. She has won numerous awards from the Missouri Press Association for her work in photojournalism.
Author Contact:
Don Corrigan, donzie550@aol.com
Diana Linsely, linsleyphoto2018@gmail.com
Upcoming Events:
Book Signing
Saturday, June 6th, from 11am – 2pm
Forest Park Visitor Center
5595 Grand Ave, St. Louis, MO 63112
Free and open to the public
Book Signing
Saturday, June 13th, from 12pm – 2pm
Magnificent Missouri, Peers Store (located just off Katy Trail)
16011 Concord Hills Rd, Marthasville, MO 63357
Free and open to the public
Presentation & Book Signing
Thursday, June 18th, from 5:30pm – 7pm
Grafica Fine Arts
7884 Big Bend Blvd, Webster Groves, MO 63119
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Book Signing
Friday, July 3rd, from 12pm – 1pm
Room for Art Gallery
124 W Main St, Washington, MO 63090
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Book Signing
Monday, September 28th, from 10am – 5pm
Cooper’s Landing Riverside Resort
11505 Smith Hatchery Rd, Columbia, MO 65203
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Talking Points
- Hikers and bikers, poets and philosophers, tree huggers and flower children, will all find something to take away from this detailed collection of 80 Missouri nature sites.
- Scenic Missouri is the perfect guide for shutter bugs to locate memorable images to capture on their cell phones or on sophisticated digital cameras.
- Scenic Missouri features plenty of bluff sites where you can capture the best vistas from Castlewood to Vilander to Devil’s Elbow or Weston bluffs.
- The book covers lakes and wetlands as varied as the ponds of Busch Conservation and Big Lake to Mingo Swamp and Allred Lake Natural Area.
- The book covers Missouri’s many special places from Tower Rock to The Pinnacles, from Hughes Mountain to Big Oak Tree State Park.
- For hikers, trails of various complexity and challenge are detailed, from simple jaunts at Claire Gempp and Blue River, to more formidable walks at Pickle Springs and Roger Pryor Pioneer Backcountry.
- Scenic Missouri has it all, from roaring rivers and swift flowing streams, to plains and rolling foothills and Ozark Mountains – all packed into one state.
Additional Talking Points
Q: What inspired you to write Scenic Missouri?
A: There’s so much to see in Missouri, but there’s also a lot to hear. It’s especially soothing – and inspiring – to listen to the flow of falling water at Rocky Falls or Grand Falls or at Falling Spring Mill. Native Americans were onto these aural pleasures and it’s hard not to appreciate their naming rights for places like Ha Ha Tonka Spring, the site of “laughing waters.”
Q: Were you and Diana Linsley on the same page with this book?
A: Photographers like Linsley and writers like me can be on very different wavelengths. That’s okay. We complemented each other on this project. She has an eye for wild flowers and wildlife that I wish I could claim. I like the challenge of trails and hiking. She likes the experience of flowers at Valley View Glade or snow geese in flight at wetland preserves.
Q: What sort of folks did you and Diana Linsley create this book for?
A: We put these 80 sites together for people who want more than a checklist of tourism attractions or a bucket list of nature sites to hit. This collection of nature locales is for people who want to make a day of it – or maybe more. We hope that newcomers will come away with a deep appreciation of the gems of nature that we have in Missouri. We hope we are providing veteran Show-Me-State nature explorers with some new ways to look at sites that they may have taken for granted.
Q: With the work completed, are their regrets about what’s left out?
A: As an environmentalist, this writer is always tempted to get preachy about how we haven’t taken care of nature so well, about how we’ve lost things that are not coming back. For example, we once had swarms of parakeets in southern Missouri. They’re all gone! We once had tremendous swamps and forests in the Bootheel! Gone! At least we have Big Oak State Park to remind us of what once was. This is a joyful book. So, we’ll save the regrets and preaching for our book talks.
Q: What does this book say about Missouri?
A: Missouri is blessed with very diverse flora and fauna – and people for that matter! Some folks don’t like those words “diverse” and “diversity.” We should embrace them at every level, especially in regard to nature. A lot gets written about how politically divided we are in Missouri going all the way back to the Civil War. But one thing that we ought to all agree on is that our natural treasures need to be protected. We have many wonderful naturalists and teachers in the state spreading that message. That’s why this book is dedicated to teachers who are spreading good words about a lovely world out there.
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