Landscapes with Figures The Nonfiction of Place

Name: Landscapes with Figures The Nonfiction of Place
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ISBN: 9780803259836

ISBN-10: 0803259832

ISBN-13: 9780803259836

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Root, Robert L. Root

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For some, a sense of place is about travel, about plunging oneself into new settings. For others, it is about being--and knowing--home. This book is a collection of essays, memoirs, nature writing, and travel narratives that document the impact this sense of place has on writing. In locations as familiar as Cape Cod or Mesa Verde and as exotic as Krakow or Kyrgyzstan, thirteen accomplished writers of contemporary creative nonfiction share some of their most memorable work, disclosing how place alters our perception and influences our insight. Taking readers to deserts and forests, islands and mountains, "Landscapes with Figures "is an encounter not only with places but also with writers…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



On place



Almost paradise



Where time and place are lost



In the territory of birds



Call and response



Fragments



Why I'm sick, and what I'm sick of



Sick of nature



Tipping the balance



Derichment



Writing "a salt marsh reclamation"



A salt marsh reclamation



Scratch flat and the invention of place



The kingdom of ice



Writing about place



The shepherds



Discovering place



Anasazi



On "after the flood" and "buckeye"



After the flood



Buckeye



Over the rainbow, my kind of place



Mesa walk



Views from the desk



In the courtyard of the Iguana Brothers



Whereof



Memory's landscapes