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Informationen zum Autor Annick Smith is the author of several books, most recently In This We Are Native: On Going Away and Coming Home and Homestead. She is coeditor of the Montana anthology The Last Best Place and an award-winning story writer. Susan O'Connor, a philanthropist and arts advocate, is on the board of the American Prairie Foundation and is involved with other literary, environmental, and social justice nonprofit organizations. She lives in Missoula, Montana. Contributors: Rick Bass, Mary Clearman Blew, Judy Blunt, Lois Conner, David James Duncan, Gretel Ehrlich, Dan Flores, Richard Ford, Lee Friedlander, James Galvin, Ian Glennie, Jim Harrison, Richard Hugo, Fredericka Hunter, Geoffrey James, William Kittredge, Barry Lopez, Richard Manning, Peter Matthiessen, Thomas McGuane, Susan O'Connor, Annick Smith, M. L. Smoker, Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, and James Welch. Klappentext "Few things have defined the American experience as fully as the open prairie. In this volume, some of our very finest modern writers and photographers provide perhaps the most rounded view we''ve ever had of this great landscape and the enduring culture it gave rise to. A true gift, for people of every region."--Bill McKibben, author of "The Bill McKibben Reader" Zusammenfassung It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the adventurous heart. This book reveals how writers and photographers in the country have met that challenge and given the genius of the prairie a vision and a voice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Stephenie Ambrose TubbsAcknowledgments Introduction Notes on the Photographs Ian Glennie Part 1: Home on the RangeMary Clearman BlewBecoming Judy BluntEvolution James WelchExcerpt from The Death of Jim Loney James GalvinNo Bastion Thomas McGuaneA Foal M. L. SmokerGrandfather Poem Letter to Richard Hugo (1) Birthright Crosscurrent Jim HarrisonTo a Meadowlark Lee FriedlanderPortfolio 1 Part 2: Hunting and GatheringBarry LopezThe Bear in the Road Rick BassBird Hunter David James DuncanFour Excerpts from the Novella "What the Prairie Has To Say about Fly Fishing" William KittredgeFar Point Gretel EhrlichA Summer Journal Lois ConnerPortfolio 2 Part 3: Travels across the PlainsJim HarrisonDon't Fence Me In Annick SmithExcerpt from "Crossing the Plains with Bruno" Richard FordEmpire Geoffrey JamesPortfolio 3 Part 4: Natural HistoryDan FloresAn Entire Heaven and an Entire Earth Peter MatthiessenExcerpt from "Plains, Prairies, and the Shining Mountains" Richard ManningInstructions from a Misanthrope's Paradise Richard HugoDriving Montana Distances High Grass Prairie Bear Paw Source Acknowledgments Contributors ...
