This is a splendid book, ambitiously and selfconsciously American, at once contemporary and a throwback to the American Renaissance, calling up Thoreau\u27s travels in Concord and inquiries into nature, as well as hints of Melville\u27s metaphysical grapplings. Whereas in his first book, Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon moved up across American landscapes, here in Prairy Erth he stays put: in Chase County, Kansas, close to the center of America, he sinks down his probes, immerses himself in reports and archives, and holds discourse with all manner of persons, animals, plants, and things
In his influential review, Deep Maps in Ecoliterature, scholar Randall Roorda argues that the deep...
Taking its name from the subtitle of William Least Heat-Moon’s PrairyErth (a deep map), the “deep-ma...
Wishart’s command of the topic and crisp writing style offer great value to any reader interested in...
In Thought and Landscape, geographer Yi-Fu Tuan describes an essential double perspective required...
Review of: "Atlas of the Great Plains," by Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer
Review of: Joseph N. Nicollet on the Plains and Prairies: The Expeditions of 1838-39 with Journals, ...
This is a remarkable volume. The ninety-first of 107 figures is a good example of what makes this bo...
Anyone who has seriously studied United States-American Indian relations will be familiar with the w...
Michael Forsberg’s magnificent photos of land, animals, and people compelled me initially to turn pa...
Review of: "An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture," by Edward Watt
Robert M. Thorson draws on the methodologies of bibliography studies, Ecocriticism, and the history ...
In 1922 a white physician working on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation began taking photographs of t...
In his introduction, Peter Miller declares of the Great Plains: This is a metaphysical land. By th...
Review of: Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills, by Rex C. Buchanan, Burke W. Griggs, and Joshua L....
Tom Isern\u27s Dakota Circle marks the inauguration of North Dakota State University\u27s Institute ...
In his influential review, Deep Maps in Ecoliterature, scholar Randall Roorda argues that the deep...
Taking its name from the subtitle of William Least Heat-Moon’s PrairyErth (a deep map), the “deep-ma...
Wishart’s command of the topic and crisp writing style offer great value to any reader interested in...
In Thought and Landscape, geographer Yi-Fu Tuan describes an essential double perspective required...
Review of: "Atlas of the Great Plains," by Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer
Review of: Joseph N. Nicollet on the Plains and Prairies: The Expeditions of 1838-39 with Journals, ...
This is a remarkable volume. The ninety-first of 107 figures is a good example of what makes this bo...
Anyone who has seriously studied United States-American Indian relations will be familiar with the w...
Michael Forsberg’s magnificent photos of land, animals, and people compelled me initially to turn pa...
Review of: "An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture," by Edward Watt
Robert M. Thorson draws on the methodologies of bibliography studies, Ecocriticism, and the history ...
In 1922 a white physician working on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation began taking photographs of t...
In his introduction, Peter Miller declares of the Great Plains: This is a metaphysical land. By th...
Review of: Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills, by Rex C. Buchanan, Burke W. Griggs, and Joshua L....
Tom Isern\u27s Dakota Circle marks the inauguration of North Dakota State University\u27s Institute ...
In his influential review, Deep Maps in Ecoliterature, scholar Randall Roorda argues that the deep...
Taking its name from the subtitle of William Least Heat-Moon’s PrairyErth (a deep map), the “deep-ma...
Wishart’s command of the topic and crisp writing style offer great value to any reader interested in...