How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and
memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across
the span of a life? In richly textured portraits of places seen
from within, Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and
gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the
stories of our own lives.
Howe begins with one of the finest descriptions ever written of
Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a
fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma
as a site of open lands and dislocation--a place of coming and
going. Howe then turns to Chartres, a traditional location of
pilgrimage, to ask what other sites might still be capable of
compelling visitors in secular time. He portrays Berlin as a scene
of twentieth-century history--and a city that helped him make sense
of his American life. Finally, he writes about Columbus, Ohio, as
home. Vividly rendering the places he has known, Howe meditates on
the weight of home, the temptations of the metropolis, the fact of
dislocation, the unraveling of history, the desire to remake
ourselves through voyage, and the wonder of the familiar.
In ways that too often elude travel writers, it is place that
holds our imagination, that inspires much of our art and
literature. Across an Inland Sea evokes the various senses of place
that can fill and haunt a life--and ultimately give life its form
and meaning.
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