9780674748897
Reading the Mountains of Home
John Elder
ISBN 13: 9780674748897
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover
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Elder guides us through a landscape where nature and literature, loss and recovery are inextricably intertwined. He synthesizes a wealth of elements gathered from Native American culture, foresters, geologists, and a spectrum of writers and poets into a telling meditation that in particular pays attention to how Robert Frost's regional poems define and describe Vermont's evocative wilds.
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"Elder...has clearly read the approved canon of nature literature, and much of this book reads like a heavily annotated syllabus....Elder's immediate observations...are often perceptive and well made."
Kirkus, 02/15/1998
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