| Holding Common Ground: Place and Self in the American West |
| Paul Lindholdt and Derrick Knowles, eds.. |
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Nonfiction
152 Pages
ISBN: 1-59766-000-0
Paper: $24.95
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The use of public land is and will remain at the very center of how people live in the American West. What happens to that land will be the result of our emotional relationship with our natural environment. Paul Lindholdt uses this interaction as the central theme of this anthology: "If people shape nature, natural places also can shape human character and culture."
Thirty western environmental writers speak of their personal and often passionate feelings for the land, from the tundra in Alaska to the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. Original contributions by well-known essayists such as Michael P. Branch, Louise Freeman-Toole, Sharman Apt Russell, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Robert Michael Pyle evidence that the very personal relationships to the physical land remain unchanged at a time of increasing pressure on public spaces throughout the West.
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| Royalties from this book will go to The Lands Council of Spokane, Washington, and The Friends of the Clearwater of Moscow, Idaho. |
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Paul Lindholdt, an English professor at Eastern Washington University, has published numerous articles, reviews, poems, and essays about American culture and environment.
Derrick Knowles is a writer and organizer working to preserve wild areas in the Pacific Northwest. |
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Praise for Holding Common Ground
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| "Holding Common Ground is a vibrantly executed collection of essays about our common human impulse to regard nature in its infinite complexities as invaluable. Some of the writers—Kathleen Dean Moore and Stephen Trimble, Robert Michael Pyle and Sharman Apt Russell—are for good reason widely published and well known. But essays by other, less well-known authors—of instance David Axelrod and Colin Chisholm—are equally compelling. Fine, insightful, cutting-edge work all around. Congratulations!" |
—William Kittredge.......... |
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| "This remarkable anthology collects essays written and gathered around the time of a seismic shift in environmental policy with the election of George W. Bush. They catalog where we have been and foretell where we should go, in the face of government co-option of public concern. All are cleanly written, sometimes startling. Many are moving in their beauty." |
—John Keeble .......... |
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