Disarming the Prairie

by Terry Evans

Book Overview

In Disarming the Prairie, noted landscape photographer Terry Evans offers haunting and hopeful images of the impact of America's military-industrial complex on the environment and the transformation of a former military base into a unique nature preserve and public recreation area. Located 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, the Joliet Army Arsenal was once the world's largest TNT factory. Wartime security and safety measures demanded that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801859360
• ISBN13: 9780801859366
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 11.3"