Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape
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Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape by Barry Lopez
Hailed by book reviewers as a masterpiece, gorgeous and fascinating, and sheer pleasure, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape was published in fall 2006 in hardcover. It was met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream, this visionary reference revitalized a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume. This is a totally redesigned, near-pocket-sized field guide edition of the best-selling hardcover. Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic, personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. Includes an introductory essay by Barry Lopez. At the heart of the book is a community of writers in service to their country, emphasizing a language suggesting the vastness and mystery that lie beyond our everyday words.
Barry Lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including Horizon; several story collections; Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist; and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. He died in 2020. www.barrylopez.com
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781595340245 |
| ISBN 10 | 1595340246 |
| Title | Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape |
| Author | Barry Lopez |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Trinity University Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2006-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Prizes | Runner-up for IndieFab awards (Nature) 2006 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |