The Solace of Open Spaces
This series of essays about rural life, based on the author's experiences on a small farm in Wyoming, focuses on the people and landscape of the West and explore themes common to all areas.
This series of essays about rural life, based on the author's experiences on a small farm in Wyoming, focuses on the people and landscape of the West and explore themes common to all areas.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140081138 (0140081135)
ASIN: 140081135
Publish date: December 2nd 1986
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Academic,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
College,
Western
Impersonal, fragmented, context-free writing (I can’t bring myself to call it narrative) overrun by egregiously bad metaphors and similes. I don’t know how something can feel so self-indulgent and still give you no indication who the author is. Thankfully, there were brief moments that managed to sp...
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