Robert L. Root
Autor(a) de The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (2nd Edition)
About the Author
Robert Root is a visiting professor in the MFA program in creative writing at Ashland University and professor emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. Three of the essays in Postscripts have been cited as Notable Essays in the annual Best mostrar mais American Essays collections. Root's books include Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, both available from the University of Nebraska Press. mostrar menos
Obras por Robert L. Root
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (2nd Edition) (1998) 178 exemplares
Time by Moments Steals Away: The 1848 Journal of Ruth Douglass (Great Lakes Books) (1998) 6 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Membros
- 310
- Popularidade
- #76,069
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 36
In part two the author relates walking around his home ground, much of it along the Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin. The weather, rivers, flora are described and compared to what he had experienced while living elsewhere in the country.
I was most familiar with Muir’s writings and appreciate having them woven into the accounts of the specific places where Muir lived. The quotes from Leopold and Derleth whetted my appetite to read their own stories. I like the way Robert Root employs picture words to paint in the readers’ minds the scenery he is seeing. The persistent reference to the effects of glaciers in Wisconsin is a tie-in to Muir’s western writings and give me something to look for during my next visit. The occasional photographs complement the text. This tome is a short and easy but stimulating read. I recommend it to anyone interested in the conservation movements or who wants to learn how to walk through nature, not to get somewhere but to let nature stream into you.
I did receive a free copy of this book without an obligation to post a review.… (mais)