Home Ground

Language for an American Landscape

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Home Ground
Language for an American Landscape
Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney

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Provides over eight hundred and fifty terms that describe American landscape by forty-five well-known writers, including Jon Krakauer, Terry Tempest Williams, Barbara Kingsolver, Charles Frazier, and Robert Hass.

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Writers Preserve American Landscape Words

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November 16, 2006 2:04 PM

A group of writers has collected more than 800 fading landscape terms in a new book — Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape— in hopes of keeping them from going extinct.

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Poets and writers come together to preserve words describing the American landscape in an excerpt from the book Home Ground, edited by Barry Lopez.

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Home Ground

Language for an American Landscape

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Book Selections to Nourish the Mind at the Holidays

Around the Nation

Writers Preserve American Landscape Words

Excerpt: 'Home Ground'

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'Arrested Development' Leads The Charge For Old Brands In New Media

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Home Ground

Language for an American Landscape

Purchase Featured Books

Book Summary

Genres:

NPR stories about Home Ground

Book Selections to Nourish the Mind at the Holidays

Around the Nation

Writers Preserve American Landscape Words

Excerpt: 'Home Ground'

More From Arts & Life

Television

'Arrested Development' Leads The Charge For Old Brands In New Media

Asia

China Builds Museums, But Filling Them Is Another Story

Humans

The Art And Science Of Motivation

Movies

The Starfleet Divide: The 'Star Trek' Universe Revisits One Of Its Great Debates

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