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SOUTHWESTERN HOMELANDS.
by Kittredge, William
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers (small dot on bottom edge.)
- Seller
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About This Item
Washington, D.C.:: National Geographic,, (2002.). SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers (small dot on bottom edge.). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) SIGNED on the title page. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series, a series of literary travel book. In this, Kittredge talks about the almost universal urge to travel, and specifically to travel southwards for those who live in the Northern Rockies. The locales change from the solitary spires and mesas of Monument Valley to Cuba, the small town in New Mexico where Eastlake lived for many years, to the teeming towns of the Mexican border, and growing cities like Santa Fe and Las Vegas. He brings to life the past and the present from ancient native American communities like Chaco Canyon to old mining towns to new-age hippie communes. Among those who appear in this book are writers Ed Abbey and Doug Peacock, Abbey's model for Hayduke, William Crumley, and more. 176 pp.
Synopsis
William Kittredge has published fiction and essays in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Outside, TriQuarterly, North American Review, and Iowa Review. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a professor of creative writing at the University of Montana, Kittredge's works include Hole in the Sky: A Memoir, Owning it All: Essays, and the story collections The Van Gogh Fields and We Are Not in This Together.
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- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 39387
- Title
- SOUTHWESTERN HOMELANDS.
- Author
- Kittredge, William
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers (small dot on bottom edge.)
- Publisher
- National Geographic,
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.:
- Date Published
- (2002.)
- Keywords
- santa fe, new mexico, ed abbey, bill crumley, el paso, las vegas, western, chaco canyon, writing, arc, uncorrected proof,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
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