John Price

Not Just Any Land

A Personal and Literary Journey Into the American Grasslands

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Produktbeschreibung

Blending elements of memoir, literary criticism, and nature writing, an anthology of essays - including conversations with such regional authors as Linda Hasselstrom, Dan O'Brien, and William Least Heat-Moon - offers an evocative portrait of the endangered prairie environment, his own quest for a new relationship with the natural life of the prairie, and the region's personal and environmental legacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 305g
• ISBN-13: 9780803260269
• ISBN-10: 0803260261
• Artikelnr.: 22798525

Autorenporträt

John Price is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His essays on nature have appeared, among other places, in Orion, The Christian Science Monitor, and Best Spiritual Writing 2000.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 - The First Miracle of the Prairie: Buffalo Gap, South Dakota
Chapter 2 - Reaching Yarak: The Peregrinations of Dan O'Brien
Chapter 3 - Not Just Any Land: Linda Hasselstrom at Home
Chapter 4 - Native Dreams: William Least Heat-Moon and Chase County, Kansas
Chatper 5 - A Healing Home: Mary Swander's Recovery among the Iowa Amish
Chapter 6 - What This Prairie Will Awaken: Walnut Creek National Wildlife
Refuge
Notes
Bibliography