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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The lay of the land

The lay of the land

Lore Sharp, Dallas

Paperback

General NatureGeneral ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353702372
ISBN13: 9789353702373
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 20 2019
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Open these pages and the hedgerow lifts. A familiar path becomes discovery. Step outside. Listen. Look closer. In The lay of the land, Dallas Lore Sharp offers a classic nature essay collection shaped as literary nonfiction nature sketches: clear-eyed, companionable pieces that move through fields, lanes, and quiet waters with the patience of a practiced watcher. Expect woodland wildlife observations, seasonal landscape reflections, and the steady delight of bird watching and ornithology, rendered with a calm authority that makes excellent nature study reading material. Rooted in the New England countryside essays tradition, Sharp writes with the immediacy of a walk taken today, yet carries the textures of early 20th century America in every attentive glance and carefully chosen detail. These american nature writing essays sit in the lineage of John Burroughs style essays and thoreau-inspired nature writing, when close observation was both art and argument for keeping the wild within reach of ordinary life. Casual readers will find dip-in chapters perfect for a bedside table or weekend escape; classic-literature collectors will recognise a distinctive voice in the American naturalist canon, valued for its craft as much as its subject. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, and a thoughtful gift for outdoors lovers who prefer their nature writing precise, humane, and deeply felt.

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