PrairyErth: (a Deep Map)Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999 - 624 pages NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. By the author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth is "a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains" (Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County--a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas--exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a "modern-day Walden" by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. "A sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country."--Paul Theroux, New York Times |
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... Night at Darla's 207 VI . Matfield Green From the Commonplace Book 215 In the Quadrangle 222 En las Casitas 230 Ex Radice 237 Via the Short Line to China 244 On the Town : Versus Harry B. ( I ) 253 VII . Hymer From the Commonplace Book ...
... Night at Darla's 207 VI . Matfield Green From the Commonplace Book 215 In the Quadrangle 222 En las Casitas 230 Ex Radice 237 Via the Short Line to China 244 On the Town : Versus Harry B. ( I ) 253 VII . Hymer From the Commonplace Book ...
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... nature is so full , that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined . - Gilbert White , The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ( 1768 ) You expect to wait . You expect night to come CROSSINGS.
... nature is so full , that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined . - Gilbert White , The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ( 1768 ) You expect to wait . You expect night to come CROSSINGS.
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... night to come . Morning . Winter to set in . But you expect sometime [ the land ] will loosen in pieces to be examined . -Barry Lopez , Desert Notes ( 1976 ) I like to think of landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is ...
... night to come . Morning . Winter to set in . But you expect sometime [ the land ] will loosen in pieces to be examined . -Barry Lopez , Desert Notes ( 1976 ) I like to think of landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is ...
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... night by the Great Spirit — and it is written in the hearts of our people . - Chief Seattle , " Address to Governor Isaac Stevens " ( 1855 ) The Dreaming is the founding story , the great drama of the creative era , in which the ...
... night by the Great Spirit — and it is written in the hearts of our people . - Chief Seattle , " Address to Governor Isaac Stevens " ( 1855 ) The Dreaming is the founding story , the great drama of the creative era , in which the ...
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... night , almost unearthly , and I come here , in a friend's words , as a two - bit mystic , but I believe I've found my way onto the top by some old compass in the blood . I've already said that what's left of Bazaar , Kansas , lies ...
... night , almost unearthly , and I come here , in a friend's words , as a two - bit mystic , but I believe I've found my way onto the top by some old compass in the blood . I've already said that what's left of Bazaar , Kansas , lies ...
Contents
IV | 19 |
V | 21 |
VI | 27 |
VII | 31 |
VIII | 40 |
IX | 46 |
X | 49 |
XI | 57 |
XLIX | 272 |
L | 279 |
LI | 288 |
LII | 295 |
LIII | 301 |
LIV | 303 |
LV | 309 |
LVI | 317 |
XII | 59 |
XIII | 66 |
XIV | 71 |
XV | 76 |
XVI | 81 |
XVII | 85 |
XVIII | 91 |
XIX | 93 |
XX | 100 |
XXI | 106 |
XXII | 113 |
XXIII | 118 |
XXIV | 123 |
XXV | 131 |
XXVI | 133 |
XXVII | 142 |
XXVIII | 147 |
XXIX | 156 |
XXX | 162 |
XXXI | 167 |
XXXII | 173 |
XXXIII | 175 |
XXXIV | 181 |
XXXV | 187 |
XXXVI | 194 |
XXXVII | 202 |
XXXVIII | 207 |
XXXIX | 213 |
XL | 215 |
XLI | 222 |
XLII | 230 |
XLIII | 237 |
XLIV | 244 |
XLV | 253 |
XLVI | 257 |
XLVII | 259 |
XLVIII | 265 |
LVII | 326 |
LVIII | 334 |
LIX | 346 |
LX | 351 |
LXI | 353 |
LXII | 363 |
LXIII | 371 |
LXIV | 381 |
LXV | 386 |
LXVI | 400 |
LXVII | 413 |
LXVIII | 415 |
LXIX | 421 |
LXX | 430 |
LXXI | 439 |
LXXII | 446 |
LXXIII | 465 |
LXXIV | 475 |
LXXV | 477 |
LXXVI | 484 |
LXXVII | 493 |
LXXVIII | 505 |
LXXIX | 513 |
LXXX | 531 |
LXXXI | 537 |
LXXXII | 539 |
LXXXIII | 547 |
LXXXIV | 561 |
LXXXV | 583 |
LXXXVI | 592 |
LXXXVII | 597 |
LXXXVIII | 601 |
LXXXIX | 603 |
XC | 608 |
XCI | 623 |
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