From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

In the literature of place, Deborah Tall's book stands out for its delicacy, range of learning, and refreshing frankness.""-Phillip Lopate ""A worthy contribution to the growing field of landscape studies. . . . Like Thoreau, who claimed to have travelled much in Concord, the author of From Where We Stand has travelled much-widely and deeply-in the Finger Lakes.""-New York History ""There has been a spate of books nominally about finding a sense of place but more accurately described as quests for community, or for home. . . . The best of the lot is Tall's book about putting down roots in Geneva, New York.""-Utne Reader

Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall's From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places-and the loss to us if there are no such connections. A typically rootless child of several American suburbs, Tall set out to make a true home for herself in the landscape that circumstance had brought her-the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. In a mosaic of personal anecdotes, historical sketches, and lyrical meditations, she interweaves her own story with the story of this place and its people-from the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois, to European settlers, to the many utopians who sensed and were inspired by a spiritual resonance here. This edition includes an introduction by William Kittredge and a foreword by Stephen Kuusisto, both highlighting the book's significance and Tall's exquisite skill in tracing the relationship between homelands and storytelling.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.