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PRAISE FOR
HOME GROUND
edited by BARRY LOPEZ
and DEBRA GWARTNEY
“The
terms themselves—root wad, anse, chickenhead, fell field,
monadnock, krummholz, lek, zanja, gunk hole, milk gap, tuckamore,
pokelogan—are like etymological landforms, beckoning, amazing and
confounding.
—Robert Sullivan, New York Times Book Review
“...each [entry is] a jewel-like, paragraph-long essay that defines and
brings word to life.”
—Jon Christensen, San Francisco Chronicle
“The book
is not another anthology of nature writing full of recycled
essays but is a rigorous attempt to bring to life words that define not
just what something is but what that something means to those who live
with it.”
—Jeff Baker
The Oregonian
“A rich, fascinating compendium of knowledge and literary styles
that lovers of both words and landscapes will relish and pore over with
delight. The entries flow together magically, so that turning each page
is like discovering not just another place, but another way of
knowing.”
—Clay Evans, Daily Camera, Boulder
“This glossary is a treasure that promises to make its readers
more fluent in the language of landscape and thereby more capable of
seeing their natural environments as essential extensions of the places
they call home.”
—Amy Ritthaler Gilmour, San Antonio Express
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