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The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska's Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid--stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled--in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway, under heavy guard, in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and prairie chickens, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a cafe in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota. These are some of the things that catch Merrill Gilfillan's eye and ear in this radiant collection of essays. Written with a poetic economy that often attains grandeur, Magpie Rising is an exhilarating tour of the Great Plains--its geography and wildlife, history, mythology, and food, its vast spaces and weirdly synchronous time. This is nature writing at its most evocative and insightful. Merrill Gilfillan is a freelance editor and writer. He is the author of a collection of essays titled Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plain in addition to two books of short stories and two books of poetry.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Places & peoples: general & pictorial works

• Celý názov: Magpie Rising
• Podnázov: Sketches from the Great Plains
• Autor: Merrill Gilfillan
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 194
• EAN: 9780803271074
• ISBN: 0803271077
• ID: 04924057
• Nakladateľ: University of Nebraska Press
• Hmotnosť: 227 g
• Rozmery: 216 × 140 × 11 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. March 2003

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