Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape (Paperback)

from gwendolyndawson

This is essentially a dictionary of landscape terms. I applaud the author's desire to capture and preserve American landscape language, and many of the entries are entertaining and interesting. The accompanying illustrations are also well-done and useful. I do not recommend sitting down with this...

from TomCook.cff

an entertaining collection of descriptive essays by a variety of authors that reveals our American connection to natural features and our environmental landscape; contains a delightful sampling of place-based vernacular terms

from bezoar44

This book is a wonderful surprise. It is a glossary of landscape-related terms, words with specialized geological, biological, or land use meanings. How exciting can it be to read a dictionary? But the 45 contributors draw from the pantheon of America's best writers and nature writers, including ...

from bezoar44

This book is a wonderful surprise. It is a glossary of landscape-related terms, words with specialized geological, biological, or land use meanings. How exciting can it be to read a dictionary? But the 45 contributors draw from the pantheon of America's best writers and nature writers, including ...