Reading the mountains of home
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Author
Publication
1998 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
63,250 words, Guess
Page Count
253 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL689160M
- ISBN-100674748883
- OCLC Control Number37493304
- OCLC Control Numberreadingmountains00elde
- Library of Congress Control Number97036194
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- LibraryThing399400
- Goodreads1439250
Classifications
- DDC917.43/5
- LCCF59.B85 E43 1998
Description
Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness.
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