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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778228103321

Autore

Knopp Lisa <1956->

Titolo

Interior places [[electronic resource] /] / Lisa Knopp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8032-6505-0

1-281-21346-2

9786611213466

0-8032-1622-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

978.2/82033092

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Soggetti

Natural history - Nebraska

Women authors, American

Home - Psychological aspects

Lincoln Region (Neb.) Biography

Lincoln Region (Neb.) Description and travel

Lincoln Region (Neb.) Social life and customs

Nebraska History Miscellanea

Nebraska Biography Miscellanea

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Bison Books"--P. [i].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-289).

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; One: The Way In; Two: Traces; Three: Bread and Butter; Four: Surrender; Five: Thirty Shades of White; Six: Pilgrimage; Seven: In the Corn; Eight: Enclosures; Nine: A Bit of Land; Ten: The Fence; Eleven: Tending; Twelve: Souvenir; Thirteen: Lingering Curiosities; Fourteen: Departure Moon; Fifteen: Visiting Frederic; Sixteen: This Creek; Works Cited

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of essays embracing nonfiction from memoir and biography to travel writing and natural history, Interior Places offers a curiously detailed group photograph of the Midwest's interior landscape. Here is an essay about the origin, history, and influence of corn. Here we find an exploration of a childhood meeting with Frederick Leopold, youngest brother of the great naturalist Aldo. Here



also are a chronicle of the 146-year alliance between Burlington, Iowa, and the Burlington Route (later the CB&O, the BN, and finally, the BNSF) and a pilgrimage to Amelia Earhart's Kansas hometown.