Borderland: A Midwest Journal
by Quinney, Richard
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0299174301
- ISBN 13
- 9780299174309
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About This Item
University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. The dustjacket is in Very Good+ condition. "Watch closely, Richard Quinney reminds himself, participate, experience the mystery. And watching, we experience with him the wonders of the borderland between a remembered past and an ever-unfolding present, the extraordinary mysteries of ordinary life in a world comfortably situated in the middle of a vast, unknowable universe.To be a midwesterner is, for Quinney, to belong to a place, to a time, to a community, all of which he evokes in this physical, mental, and spiritual geography. In photographs handed down over the years and in those he has taken over a half-century, in reflections and anecdotes, forays into history and judicious quotations and observations from figures as varied as T. S. Eliot, Roland Barthes, and Bob Dylan, Quinney recreates the landscape of his life. Here, he conjures the reality of his Midwest, the land where his great-grandparents, fleeing famine in Ireland, settled to farm, and where in days past the Potawatomi hunted and fished; and the land where now, in later age, Quinneys explorations intensify as he looks forand finds"a lifetime burning in every moment."Equal parts memoir, geography, photo journal, and natural history, Borderland is a deeply felt exploration of what it means to be at home in a particular landscape. A nuanced literary evocation of place in the tradition of Aldo Leopold and Wallace Stegner, it leaves us with the gift Quinney promises himself: Once again the wonder.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010023993
- Title
- Borderland: A Midwest Journal
- Author
- Quinney, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0299174301
- ISBN 13
- 9780299174309
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Place of Publication
- Madison Wi
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Midwest, midwest, farming, agriculture, natural history
- X weight
- 24 oz
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