Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape [B1990]

2010 PB in excellent condition. A language-lover's dream, Home Ground revitalizes a descriptive language for the American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one volume - by bringing 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. Home Ground includes 100 black-and-white line drawings by Molly O'Halloran and an introductory essay by Barry Lopez.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I loved taking a tour through America by using the vernacular and terminology locals used about their landscapes and natural settings. Beautiful and descriptive."; "This book was edited by Barry Lopez, an amazing writer and spokesman for the natural world. As an anthology of sorts, it doesn't seem suited for a cover-to-cover read. Instead, I am reading the individual entries in a much slower manner. So far, the writing is excellent as would be expected."; "Just finished working my way through this wonderful volume and shelved it in the reference section of my library. 500 pages of micro-essays on terms used for features of land, water, and ice by 45 fine writers including Scott Russell Sanders, Pattiann Rogers, Kim Stafford, Bob Pyle, Robert Morgan Jon Krakauer, Wm. Kittredge, Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Hass, Gretel Ehrlich, Bill McKibben, Linda Hogan, Terry Tempest Williams, and the like. Entries from fire-line and finger-rafted ice to hanging glacier and hedgerow, zigzag rocks and tornado alley. As the blurb by Michael Pollan says, 'An unexpected page turner.' "; "I will be a long time reading this book. It's a reference book in which to take a stroll and get lost wherever you like. I love it!!"