American Places (Penguin Classics)
"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the  American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of life, with  what chances of continuity, have arisen out of the confrontations between an unformed society  and a virgin continent. Perhaps it is less a book about the American land than some ruminations  about the making of America. . . . We are the unfinished product of a long becoming."—fromAmerican Places"The text by the Stegners is precise, to the point, packed with useful information and infused with  that love for our land and its honest workers which is the highest form (perhaps the only form) of  patriotism."—Edward Abbey