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home ground language for an american landscape barry lopez editor debra gwartney managing editor october 2006 a landmark work of language geography and folklore created by a community of american writers intent on revitalizing our intimacy with place home ground language for an american landscape brings together forty-five poets and writers to create more than 850 original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters terms like flatiron bayou monadnock kiss tank meander bar and everglade the writers including barbara kingsolver luis alberto urrea jon krakauer charles frazier and antonya nelson draw from careful research as well as on their own distinctive stylistic personal and regional diversity to portray in bright precise prose the striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit from missouri s woody draws to virginia s runs from the desire paths of cities to the rondes of midwestern farmlands from california s bajadas to alaska s pingos and hawai i s shield volcanoes an advisory board has ensured the scientific accuracy of the prose included are 100 black-and-white line drawings by molly o halloran and an introductory essay by barry lopez at the heart of home ground is a community of writers in service to their country reviving a language that suggests the variety and vastness of the american landscape spec ial offer for member s home 480 pages 7¾ x 10¼ hardcover isbn 978-1595-34024-5 100 b&w illustrations list price $29.95 www.geosociety.org lciao ff er gsa sales and service p.o box 9140 boulder co 80301-9140 usa +1.303.357.1000 option 3 toll-free +1.888.443.4472 fax +1.303.357.1071 for g s am am bedrock writers on the wonders of geology edited by lauret e savoy eldridge m moores and judith e moores 19.95 writers from around the world consider everything about the earth from rock ice and wind to volcanoes earthquakes and deep time in bedrock a collection of works of fiction poetry and nonfiction that pay tribute to the amazing geological features that make up our earth the book is organized into sections that deal with rock and stone deep time earthquakes and faults volcanoes and eruptions rivers to the sea mountains and highlands wind and desert the flow of ice and the life of the earth insightful penetrating and provocative the works are written from many positions traditional and indigenous as well as western scientific the collection contains the words of artists and anthropologists traditional elders and philosophers novelists and poets aviators naturalists and scientists of many flavors bedrock bridges specialized science and ordinary existence to portray the forces that have shaped the earth and to give readers a sense of the geologic experience encompassing their lives in the tradition of works by john mcphee that have popularized geology and anthologies that collect the best science writing bedrock combines science and literature to create a book that wonderfully illuminates the geology of our home planet emb emb e e www.geosociety.org r s s pe r s s pe bedrock 6 x 9 softcover 356 p isbn 1-59534-023-8 list price $24.95 gsa sales and service · p.o box 9140 boulder co 80301-9140 usa +1.303.357.1000 option 3 · toll free +1.888.443.4472 · fax +1.303.357.1071

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