Nature photographers and authors, Michael Jeffords and Susan Post share stories and images of their travels around Illinois and beyond. Part of the Get Curious Summer Reading Program
The journey of a lifetime through nature.
Michael R. Jeffords and Susan L. Post have circled the globe--collecting images of the natural world. Both are writers and wildlife photographers with an insatiable curiosity for nature. They are retired entomologists/biologists from the Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, UI.
Join them for an evening lecture in which they open their personal cabinet of curiosities and share stories of their most unusual encounters with nature. The tales they will share will be selected from their book, Curious Encounters with the Natural World, a riveting, eye-witness collection of essays and over 200 photographs of startling and unusual phenomena that illuminates the diverse life inhabiting our planet. Purchase a copy at the event and have it signed by the authors.
Curious Encounters with the Natural World: From Grumpy Spider
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