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Heat-Moon divides Chase County into a grid, creating 12 quadrangles. He set about traversing the roads and landscape on foot to better make himself with the surroundings. Thus the book is divided also into 12 sections, every focusing on a specific quadrangle. The sections are begun with select quotes from writers and historians that provide an insight into the rectange and the subjects therein. Then he divides every segment into chapters that crash the quadrangle down into bite-size chunks.
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A travel book of this epic ecology is for those who find beauty in everything. If you find yourself admiring how rats establish their lairs alternatively appreciating the skirmish of the Indians in pearly West-word expansion, then the book is a faultless fit. The subtitle of is no misnomer; it is definitely a deep map, deep in time, space and detail. Near the end Heat-Moon admits the book is 3 times the width I set out to jot (pg. 598). But he likewise says that only approximately 10 percent of the chats he partook in made it onto the pages. One can merely imagine the details he chose no to embody.
On the back cover of the book a quote from Bill McKibben of Hungry Mind Review that calls PrairyErth, “The Moby Dick of American History…the deepest map ever made of an American Place. Anyone versed with Herman Melvilles masterpiece can immediately look its inspire ashore the go.
Readers will naturally find themselves bogged down with the prose and giant detail by some point. Likewise every reader ought find a chapter that speaks profoundly to the core of their creature. Just like any journey, perusing this book has its ups and downs.
William Least Heat-Moons (lyricist of Blue Highways and Roads to Quoz) 1991 PrairyErth (a deep map) is a peregrination book of epic proportions. By diving into the depths of history, Heat-Moon creates a vivid portrait of Chase County, Kansas. He examines the countys biological, geological and person background in unparalleled detail.
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Interspersed between stories from residents and history Heat-Moon drummed up from courthouse records are dense parts full of science and technicality. Chapters like In Kit Form: The Cottonwood Chapter, which is dedicated completely to the cottonwood tree, can be humdrum. Similar parts, like those circling the Osage orange tree and railway histories, might slow some readers down, many like Melvilles intense technological debates of manifold types of whales.
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