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PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country
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by William Least Heat-Moon
Sales Rank: 82946
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Discount: 32 %
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 640 pages
Published by: Mariner Books February 15, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 039592569X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0395925690
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Whereas Blue Highways dealt with Heat-Moon's auto trip across America, PrairyErth (an old term for heartland soils) records a journey mostly on foot across the tallgrass prairies and grasslands of Chase County, Kans. In a great cornucopia of a book, a majestic, healing hymn to America's potential, Heat-Moon attempts to penetrate the spirit of the land, a land which explorer Zebulon Pike and later white settlers stole from the Kansa (Kaw) Indians. There are now only six full-blood Kaw survivors, most of whom live on a reservation in Oklahoma. Heat-Moon writes of a feminist rancher who hires women primarily, of a farm couple swept aloft by a tornado, of abolitionists who wanted slaves free but not equal. He pauses to ponder fence posts, arrowheads and the nesting habits of pack rats. He talks to conservationists and coyote hunters, excerpts pioneer diaries and recreates the 1931 airplane crash that killed football hero Knute Rockne. Each chapter is prefaced by a map and by pages of quotations ranging from Thoreau to Frank Lloyd Wright. First serial to the Atlantic; BOMC selection.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This new work from the author of Blue Highways ( LJ 11/1/82) is an immersion into the past, present, and future of Chase County in south central Kansas. Located in the heart of the Flint Hills, the sparsely populated area contains one of the best remaining tracts of tallgrass prairie that once covered much of the Midwest. ("PrairyErth" is an old geologic term for prairie soils). Having spent six years engaging in "participatory history," Heat-Moon creates a feel for the land and a rural way of life that seems to be dead or dying across America. Dividing his book into quadrangles, he presents a verbal map that looks at the county's geological, natural, and human history. This is a fascinating book that could be improved only with the addition of an index. Highly recommended, especially for local, natural, and Western history collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/91; BOMC selection.
- Tim Markus, Evergreen State Coll. Lib., Olympia, Wash.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
I read this book on a sun-drenched beach on the island of Raratonga, Cook Islands. I would recommend Raratonga to anyone seeking a paradise in which to relax. More highly recommended, however, is PrairyErth, which transported me with alarming ease from this lush, tropical eden to the limitless view of a Kansas prairie. PrairyErth is indeed a "Deep Map" and the tale it tells of a state, which can be synonymous with ennui, is remarkable. This book is a phenomenal achievement and one that should be read by every lover of books extant. It is a historical, philosophical, geographical, and geological masterpiece and renders the state of Kansas much brighter on any reader's radar screen.
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