Across an inland sea : writing in place from Buffalo to Berlin
How do the places we live in and visit shape our lives and memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? In richly textured portraits of places seen from within, Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create and gather their stories and how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives.Howe begins with one of the finest descriptions ever written of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. And he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands and dislocation--a place of coming and going
Print Book, English, ©2003
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, ©2003
collective biographies
207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780691113654, 0691113653
50476697
Ch. 1. Inland Sea: Buffalo and Beyond
Ch. 2. The View from the River: Paris
Ch. 3. Openlands: Oklahoma
Ch. 4. Pilgrimage Sites: Starting from Chartres
Ch. 5. The Place of History: Berlin
Ch. 6. Writing Home: High Street
Afterword. Writing in Place