Three months on the New York Times bestseller list, PrairyErth is now in paperback. Robert Penn Warren pronounced Heat-Moon's Blue Highways "a masterpiece." Now Heat-Moon has pulled to the side of the road and set off on foot to take readers on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history in the Flint Hills of central Kansas.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
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9780547527475
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Add a CommentEloquent & compassionate travel writing with engaging stories for perspective; prairyerth is a geologic word for prairie soils. This is an in-depth biography of Chase County Kansas, the place and people, written before the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve was established. Interwoven stories of recent and past moments provide a heightened perspective of place. Also checkout “Dreamwalking: music from the film Return to PrairyErth” -- created with this book in mind.