Home ground
Subtitle: a guide to the American landscape
By: Barry Lopez & Debra Gwartney, editors
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Antonio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9781595341754
Subjects: Americanisms; Landscapes in literature; Miscellanea; American literature; Geographical Names; Local color in literature; Encyclopedias; Landscapes; Terminology; Geography
Other titles: Guide to the American landscape; Language for an American landscape.
Description: An encyclopedic work by a community of writers who describe America's geography and landscape in literary styles.
Notes: Previously published with slightly different subtitle: "Language for an American landscape," 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes (index of terms; index of names; index of places).
Table of contents: title: A-Z entries written, variously, by: Jeffrey Renard Allen; title: Kim Barnes; title: Conger Beasley, Jr.; title: Franklin Burroughs; title: Lan Samantha Chang; title: Michael Collier; title: Elizabeth Cox; title: John Daniel; title: Jan DeBlieu; title: William DeBuys; title: Gretel Ehrlich; title: Charles Frazier; title: Pamela Frierson; title: Patricia Hampl; title: Robert Hass; title: Emily Hiestand; title: Linda Hogan; title: Stephen Graham Jones; title: John Keeble; title: Barbara Kingsolver; title: William Kittredge; title: Jon Krakauer; title: Gretchen Legler; title: Arturo Longoria; title: Bill McKibben; title: Ellen Meloy; title: Robert Morgan; title: Susan Brind Morrow; title: Antonya Nelson; title: Robert Michael Pyle; title: Pattiann Rogers; title: Scott Russell Sanders; title: Eva Saulitis; title: donna Seaman; title: Carolyn Servis; title: Kim Stafford; title: Mary Swander; title: Arthur Sze; title: Mike Tidwell; title: Luis Alberto Urrea; title: Luis Verano; title: D.J.Waldie; title: Joy Williams; title: Terry Tempest Williams; title: Larry Woiwode.