This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is โa majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plainsโ (Hungry Mind Review).
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William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase Countyโa sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansasโexploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe.
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Called a โmodern-day Waldenโ by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through a place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road.
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โA sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country.โ โPaul Theroux, The New York Times
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