Three months on the New York Times bestseller list, PrairyErth is now in paperback. Robert Penn Warren pronounced Heat-Moon's Blue Highways "a masterpiece." Now Heat-Moon has pulled to the side of the road and set off on foot to take readers on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history in the Flint Hills of central Kansas.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
a "deep map" indeed:
We move too fast; our senses are daily bombarded with loud (but shallow) noise. When one comes in contact with a book like "PrairyErth", it requires a shift of mind, a change of gears. Heat-Moon walks slowly and digs deeply. There are sentences in this book that have great weight- they didn't come easy, and they speak softly. It is a heavy book, but one with which you will develop a lasting relationship. I don't know of any book like it, surely a credit to Heat-Moon's formidable skill of turning land... more info
Along the road:
A very deep map indeed, the second of Heat-Moon's three literary tours-de-force is the story of a county in Kansas. In his first excursion, the best-selling BLUE HIGHWAYS, the author reported on a ten thousand mile sojourn along the old Federal Highways (blue on most maps). PRAIRYERTH grew out of three years of hiking, conversation and archival research in Chase County, Kansas and the result is a living history of both the particular locale and the European invasion of the west. From Knute Rockne's death... more info
Almost Walden...:
New to William Least Heat Moon, I wasn`t quite sure what to expect with Prairyerth. Having heard about the critical acclaim of Blue Highways, I thought a lesser known work would be the place to start. And I am glad I chose Praityerth. With Prairyearth, William Least Heat Moon has dug down to the heart of a specific place, in this case, the Flint Hill country of Chase County, Kansas. Not unlike Thoreau`s Walden, Prairyerth is an exhaustive chronicle of one man`s journey to the bottom--historically,... more info
Interesting and thought-provoking:
If only every county in the United States had as passionate and articulate a chronicler as William Least Heat-Moon. I came to "PrairyErth" after having read and loved "Blue Highways." This tome--though longer and less expansive, geographically--possesses many of the qualities I admired in Heat-Moon's earlier work: the narrative tone (there's none of that stuffy, impersonal, third-person prose one finds in some travelogues; the author is himself part of the story), the occasional dips into philosophy... more info
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