CHRISTOPHER BENFEY is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books, he has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Benfey’s most recent book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, won the Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Prologue: The Mound | p. 1 |
The Bamboo Grove | p. 19 |
Jugtown | p. 44 |
The Snuffbox | p. 73 |
Mexico | p. 107 |
The Meander | p. 142 |
On The Divide | p. 164 |
Cherokee Clay | p. 187 |
Wedgwood | p. 209 |
Xanadu | p. 227 |
Epilogue: Arrangement in Gray and Black | p. 254 |
Acknowledgments | p. 271 |
A Note on Sources | p. 277 |
Index | p. 283 |
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