An edition of Reading the mountains of home (1998)

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An edition of Reading the mountains of home (1998)

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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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English
Pages
253

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Reading the mountains of home
1998, Harvard University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-240) and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
917.43/5
Library of Congress
F59.B85 E43 1998, F59.B85E43 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
253 p. :
Number of pages
253

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Open Library
OL689160M
Internet Archive
readingmountains00elde
ISBN 10
0674748883
LCCN
97036194
OCLC/WorldCat
37493304
Library Thing
399400
Goodreads
1439250

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