Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595340246 ISBN 13: 9781595340245

Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S., 2006

Synopsis

Over 850 terms for land and water--words like kiss tank, milk gap, goat prairie, basket-of-eggs relief, misfit river, swale, yazoo--are described by forty-five of our most respected writers, including Jon Krakauer, Terry Tempest Williams, Barbara Kingsolver, Charles Frazier, and Robert Hass. Home Ground is a language-lover's dream, a visionary and fresh reference work that combines geography, literature, and folklore, and represents tremendous research distilled in a single paragraph.

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About the Author

Barry Lopez is the author of "Arctic Dreams, Of Wolves and Men, Resistance, Light Action in the Caribbean, " and eleven other works of fiction and nonfiction. His essays are collected in two books, "Crossing Open Ground" and "About This Life." He contributes regularly to "Granta, the Georgia Review, Orion, Outside, the Paris Review, Manoa, " and other publications in the United States and abroad. In addition to the National Book Award, he is the recipient of an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations. He lives in western Oregon. Debra Gwartney is the author of the memoir "Live Through This, " published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2009. She teaches creative writing at Portland State University and lives in western Oregon. Molly O'Halloran is an illustrator and cartographer whose work has appeared in volumes of fiction, travel writing, essays, and archaeological editions. She has lived and worked in Chicago, the Upper Sonoran Desert, the northern Sierra Nevada, and the Great Basin and now calls Austin, TX, home.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1595340246
• ISBN 13: 9781595340245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Lopez Barry, Gwartney Debra