Home Ground - A Guide to the American Landscape (Paperback, Revised Edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Trinity University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	August 2013
Editors:	Barry Lopez • Debra Gwartney
Dimensions:	203 x 114 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	672
Edition:	Revised Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-59534-175-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Dictionaries > General
LSN:	1-59534-175-7
Barcode:	9781595341754

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