Nature, US & Canadian Literary Biography, Literary Biography, Natural History
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Overview
If you enjoyed books like A Sand County Almanac or A Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek, you'll love Words from a Wide Land. Barney brings insights of people and places, natural phenomena, birds, animals, insects, and other things he has encountered in many years of living and traveling. In these entries (a year's worth, though not in chronological order by year), can be found humor, romance, delight, philosophy, even terror. He has measured the life about him with a flair, which at times bursts into poetry. "September 6, 1977. The migration of birds resembles Pickett's Charge. Thousands are lost in frontal collisions with skyscrapers, are picked off by rough predators, buffeted by wind and storm. But they keep coming on, advancing, year after year, as if there were no Cemetery Ridge."Book Details
Published
June 15, 2006
Publisher
Denton, TX : University of North Texas Press, c1993.
Pages
194
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780929398648