Not Just Any Land

by Price, John

• ISBN13: 9780803260269
• ISBN10: 0803260261
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

Though John Price had lived in Iowa all his life, the allure of the prairie had somehow eluded him until, after a catastrophic flood, a brief glimpse of native wildlife suddenly brought his surroundings home to him.Not Just Any Landis a memoir of Price's rediscovery of his place in the American landscape and of his search for a new relationship with the life of the prairie. Price's journey toward a conscious commitment to place takes him to some of America's largest remaining grasslands and brings him face to face with a troubling but also hopeful personal and environmental legacy. It also leads him through the region's literature and into conversations with contemporary nature writersLinda Hasselstrom, Dan O'Brien, William Least Heat-Moon, and Mary Swanderwho have devoted themselves to living in, writing about, and restoring the grasslands. The resulting narrative is an innovative blend of memoir, nature writing, and literary criticism bearing witness to the essential bonds between spirit, art, and earth.

Author Biography

John Price is a professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and his essays on nature have appeared in Orion, the Christian Science Monitor, Best Spiritual Writing 2000, and other publications.