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Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape (2006)

door Barry Lopez (Redacteur)

Andere auteurs: Debra Gwartney (Redacteur)

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The author asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America's land and water forms; phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others. Carefully researched and written by talents such as Barbara Kingsolver, Lan Samantha Chang, Robert Hass, Terry Tempest Williams, Jon Krakauer, Gretel Ehrlich, Luis Alberto Urrea, Antonya Nelson, Charles Frazier, Linda Hogan, and Bill McKibben, this text is a composite portrait of the landscape. At the heart of this expansive work is a community of writers in service to their country, emphasizing a language that suggests the vastness and mystery that lie beyond our everyday words.… (meer)

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an entertaining collection of descriptive essays by a variety of authors that reveals our American connection to natural features and our environmental landscape; contains a delightful sampling of place-based vernacular terms (

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TomCook.cff | Feb 12, 2011 |

A unique undertaking, and an interesting way to catalog the American landscape. (

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checkadawson | Nov 2, 2009 |

This is essentially a dictionary of landscape terms. I applaud the author's desire to capture and preserve American landscape language, and many of the entries are entertaining and interesting. The accompanying illustrations are also well-done and useful. I do not recommend sitting down with this book for a cover-to-cover read, but it is enjoyable to read a few entries here and there. Every American reader is likely to stumble upon some long-forgotten term that applies to the reader's own personal landscape. (

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gwendolyndawson | Mar 20, 2008 |

"I am alone, except for the occasional sea gull or group of plovers. I am wearing my father-in-law's spare coat because I forgot mine in the final chaotic moment of packing up and departing. The neck of the coat is drawn up over my mouth and nose. My fleece cap is pulled down to my brow. I am shielding the half-inch of space between with both gloved hands, walking into the wind."

Read it all at http://troysworktable.blogspot.com/2007/01/ocean-calls.html (

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troysworktable | May 2, 2007 |

A beautiful telling of geological and geographical landscape stories. (

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Auteursnaam	Rol	Type auteur	Werk?	Status
Lopez, Barry	Redacteur	primaire auteur	alle edities	bevestigd
Gwartney, Debra	Redacteur	Secundaire auteur	alle edities	bevestigd

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The author asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America's land and water forms; phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others. Carefully researched and written by talents such as Barbara Kingsolver, Lan Samantha Chang, Robert Hass, Terry Tempest Williams, Jon Krakauer, Gretel Ehrlich, Luis Alberto Urrea, Antonya Nelson, Charles Frazier, Linda Hogan, and Bill McKibben, this text is a composite portrait of the landscape. At the heart of this expansive work is a community of writers in service to their country, emphasizing a language that suggests the vastness and mystery that lie beyond our everyday words.

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