Re: Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape: Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney

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This is a good book, I agree! Unique.

Barry Lopez is a great hero of mine...

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Subject: [GWL] Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape: Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney

Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape: Barry Lopez, DebraGwartney: 9781595341754: Amazon.com: Bookshttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595341757?ref_=cm_wl_huc_continue*Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape* was published in fall2006 in hardcover."How to define an *arroyo*, *badlands*, *eddy*, a *muskeg*? What is a *desirepath*, a *kiss tank*, a *nubble*? These words, many forgotten today, referto various aspects of a landscape to which many of us have lost ourconnection. Drawing on the polyglot richness of American English, NationalBook Award–winning author Lopez (*Arctic Dreams*) assembles 45 writers,known for their intimate connection to particular places, to collectivelycreate a unique American dictionary. Barbara Kingsolver, William Kittredge,Arturo Longoria, Jon Krakauer, Bill McKibben, Antonya Nelson, Luis AlbertoUrrea and Joy Williams, among others, vividly describe land and waterforms."_______________________________________________gardenwriters m!
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