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Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape: Barry Lopez, Debra
Gwartney: 9781595341754: Amazon.com: Books
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595341757?ref_=cm_wl_huc_continue
*Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape* was published in fall
2006 in hardcover.
"How to define an *arroyo*, *badlands*, *eddy*, a *muskeg*? What is a *desire
path*, a *kiss tank*, a *nubble*? These words, many forgotten today, refer
to various aspects of a landscape to which many of us have lost our
connection. Drawing on the polyglot richness of American English, National
Book Award–winning author Lopez (*Arctic Dreams*) assembles 45 writers,
known for their intimate connection to particular places, to collectively
create a unique American dictionary. Barbara Kingsolver, William Kittredge,
Arturo Longoria, Jon Krakauer, Bill McKibben, Antonya Nelson, Luis Alberto
Urrea and Joy Williams, among others, vividly describe land and water
forms."