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Synopsis
"I call it the sacred corridor. That's a poetic name for a district that most people would do anything to avoid, a corridor travelers pass through as quickly as possible, with their souls and windows closed, and describe later as the flatest, dreariest, most isolated country they have ever seen.
This book is a love song to that lonely country...I call it the landscape of the improbable. The promise of America is that we will create a society equal to the magnificence of the continent on which we have planted it. It is not quite too late. I remember how inspired I felt the first time I heard Wallace Stegner's phrase, 'a society to match the landscape.'
At a time when rural America has fewer advocates than at any previous era in our history, I wish to argue that our national renewal must come from the empty quarter, the backwater villages and the unvisited buttes of the American West. As a nation, we are being destroyed by mobility, abstraction from nature, alienation from the macrobiotics of the food chain and the food supply, and addiction to homogenized comforts that deracinate us from the life of the spirit. This is a book about spirit of place."
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About the Author
Clay S. Jenkinson, author, humanities scholar and cultural commentator, grew up in ND and as young man hiked the Little Missouri River, falling in love along the way with the landscape and with the little town of Marmarth.
Clay is a scholar-in-residence at Lewis & Clark College in Portland OR. He is the author of "The Character of Meriwether Lewis: 'Completely Metamorphosed' in the American West." He was chief consultant, historian, scriptwriter and on camera field host for the Lewis & Clark documentary, "Travelin' On". He is currently writing and narrating hundreds of Lewis & Clark Minutes for radio broadcast. In addition, Clay is nationally known for his vibrant portrayals of Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Francis Bacon and John Wesley Powell in the Chautauqua first person tradition.
Clay brings a humanities perspective to this book, a perspective he learned as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford Univeristy.
Review
"This is prose...I have never read a book so utterly real, and yet so profoundly romantic. Welcome to Marmarth." -- Tom Isern, Professor of History, North Dakota State University, and author of "Dakota Circle: Excursions on the True Plains"
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- PublisherMarmath Pr
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1930806124
- ISBN 13 9781930806122
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages311
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