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Book Description: Trinity University Press, San Antonio, (2006), 2006. Hard Cover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Molly O'Halloran (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. 4to. Signed by both Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney on the title page. 45 poets and writers were asked to define terms that describe America's land and water forms - phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. Comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others, with contributions from such luminaries as Barbara Kingsolver, William Kittredge, Kim Stafford, Terry Tempest Williams, Jon Krakauer, Gretel Ehrlich, Charles Frazier, John Daniel, and Barry Lopez, Home Ground is a ground-breaking portrait of the American landscape. Writes Mr. Lopez in his Introduction, "What many of us are hopeful of now, it seems, is being able to gain - or regain - a sense of allegiance with our chosen places, and along with that a sense of affirmation with our neighbors that the place we've chosen is beautiful, subtle, profound, worthy of our lives." 8-5/8 x 10-3/4", grey cloth, 447pp, xxiv, biblio. note, indexes of terms, names and places, writer bios., fully illus. by Molly O'Halloran. New in dust wrapper and protective mylar. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # 4997

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Book Description: Trinity Univ Pr, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Trinity University Press, San Antonio, (2006), 2006. Hard Cover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Molly O'Halloran (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. 4to. Signed by both Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney on the title page." 8-5/8 x 10-3/4", grey cloth, 447pp, xxiv, biblio. note, indexes of terms, names and places, writer bios., fully illus. by Molly O'Halloran. New in dust wrapper Barry Lopez asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America's land and water forms ¿ phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others. Carefully researched and exquisitely written by talents such as Barbara Kingsolver, Lan Samantha Chang, Robert Hass, Terry Tempest Williams, Jon Krakauer, Gretel Ehrlich, Luis Alberto Urrea, Antonya Nelson, Charles Frazier, Linda Hogan, and Bill McKibben, Home Ground is a striking composite portrait of the landscape. At the heart of this expansive work is a community of writers in service to their country, emphasizing a language that suggests the vastness and mystery that lie beyond our everyday words. "Tiny essays in the guise of definitions.The book is a way of reclaiming the language that gives definition to landscape from the denatured terms of modern public discourse. It celebrates specificity." New York Times" A Very Special/ unique copy thus of the Signed First Edition. Signed by Author on the title page. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 000009

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