Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopause

Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch is in many ways a love story - about a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, but also about their passions for hunting, for wild lands, and for the grouse and raptor species that they were instrumental in saving from destruction. From the papers and letters of Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom, the reminiscences of contemporaries, and her own long friendship with this extraordinary couple who were her neighbors, Helen Corneli draws an intimate picture of Fran and Hammy from childhood through the genesis and maturation of a romantic, creative, and scientific relationship. Following the Hamerstroms as they give up a life of sophisticated convention and comfort for the more civilized (as Aldo Leopold would have it) pleasures of living and conducting on-the-spot research into diminishing species, Corneli captures the spirit of the Hamerstroms, their profession, and the natural and human environments in which they worked.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 08/01/2006
ISBN: 9780299203948
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.18w x 0.77d

Review Citations: Booklist 04/15/2005 pg. 1417
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2006 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended
Choice 06/01/2007 pg. 1660