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Chilli Factor is an extreme sports television show that features
surfing, skateboarding, BMXing and snowboarding. This is a
selection of some of the best action featured in the show and
performers from each sport including: Slater, Hobgood, Campbell,
Rowley, Ventura and Nyquist. The accompanying soundtrack includes
Bonobo, Quantic and the Limp Twins.
The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American
literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this
volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described,
celebrated, and defined the region evoke the world of the American
prairie from the first recorded days of Native history to the
realities of life on a present-day reservation, from the arrival of
European explorers to the experience of early settlers, from the
splendor of the vast and rolling grasslands to the devastation of
the Dust Bowl. Several essays look to the future and explore
changes that would embolden the people of the Plains to continue to
call home this place they have learned to value in spite of its
persistent challenges. The infinite variety of the Great Plains
landscape and its people unfolds in works by writers as diverse as
Willa Cather, Loren Eiseley, Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe), Diane Glancy
(Cherokee), Langston Hughes, Wes Jackson, Garrison Keillor, William
Least Heat-Moon, Kathleen Norris, Wright Morris, Francis Parkman,
O. E. Rolvaag, Mari Sandoz, William Stafford, Mark Twain, Douglas
Unger, James Welch (Blackfeet), and Canadians Sharon Butala and
Sinclair Ross. From tribal histories to the impressions of
travelers today, from tales of isolation and nature's furious
storms to accounts of efforts to build communities, from flights of
fancy to nuanced observations of the ecology of the grasslands,
this comprehensive volume provides a history of the intricate
relationships of land and people in the Great Plains.
The Great Plains have long been fertile ground for literature. The
Nature of the Place is a comprehensive study of novels and stories
by writers of that region. Drawing upon studies by cultural
geographers, historians, and literary critics, Diane Dufva Quantic
creates an expansive portrait of the region, its history, and its
literature. Quantic offers insightful readings of a staggering
array of authors, including Willa Cather, Wright Morris, Mari
Sandoz, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Manfred, Wallace Stegner,
and Bess Streeter Aldrich. She considers the literature of the
Plains and neighboring regions from early representations in such
works as James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie, published in 1827,
through such contemporary authors as Douglas Unger and Ron Hansen.
For all its concentration upon individual writers and works,
however, The Nature of the Place is marked by Quantic's sustained
attention to the region's collective social and cultural history.
Central to that cumulative focus is the constant, immensely
fruitful clash between the myths of the Great Plains - myths
represented by such phrases as the Garden of the World, the Great
American Desert, the Closed Frontier, Manifest Destiny, and the
Safety Valve - and the infinitely more complex history of the
region. Quantic is always aware of how that clash, while most
productive of literature, has made a final, definitive vision of
the Great Plains impossible. In so vast and changeable a region it
is only fitting that, as Wright Morris once remarked, "Many things
would come to pass, but the nature of the place would remain a
matter of opinion".
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