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Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape : Language for an American Landscape by Debra Gwartney (2006, Hardcover)

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With more than 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, and others, this landmark work of language geography features a community of writers who describe America's landscape in descriptive terms.

Product Identifiers

PublisherTrinity University Press

ISBN-101595340246

ISBN-139781595340245

eBay Product ID (ePID)63071136

Product Key Features

Number of Pages480 Pages

Publication NameHome Ground: Language for an American Landscape : Language for an American Landscape

LanguageEnglish

SubjectDictionaries, Earth Sciences / Geography, United States / General, Linguistics / General, Linguistics / Etymology

Publication Year2006

TypeNot Available

AuthorDebra Gwartney

Subject AreaTravel, Science, Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight47.6 Oz

Item Length10.2 in

Item Width7.7 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2006-019942

Reviews"Home Ground is a treasure house of a book, chocked with gems of the American vernacular. To learn these terms for features of the landscape is like putting on a new pair of glasses--the land comes more vividly into focus. But to call this a reference work is to shortchange it--the entries are written by some of our best writers, and the result is an unexpected page turner."-- Michael Pollan , author of The Omnivore's Dilemma "Reading hundreds of pages of alphabetized definitions of landscape terms in one sitting may sound as appealing as spending a long hot day in an Arizona malpais--a desert landscape that is, to quote Cormac McCarthy, "all cracked and reddish black like a pan of dried blood"--but it ends up being a lot of fun."-- New York Times "'Home Ground' . . . is a civilized pleasure, in the way great reference books can be."-- San Francisco Chronicle "One can almost hear mountains and hills bursting into song, and trees of the field clapping their hands."-- Christian Century "A group of writers has collected more than 800 fading landscape terms in a new book -- Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. "-- National Public Radio

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal917.3003

Intended AudienceTrade

Lc Classification NumberG108.E5h66 2006

Illustrated byO'halloran, Molly