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Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now - Softcover

Root, Robert

 
9780806140186: Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0806140186 ISBN 13: 9780806140186
Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

A world traveler, Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel narrative, A Lady&;s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root&;s own discovery of Colorado&;s Front Range following his move from the flatlands of Michigan. In this elegantly written book, Root retraces Bird&;s three-month journey, seeking to understand what Colorado meant to her&;and what it would come to mean for him.

Following Isabella is a work of intersecting histories. Root interweaves an overview of Bird&;s life and work with regional history, nature writing, and his own travels to produce a uniquely informative and entertaining narrative. He probes Bird&;s self-transformation as her writing moved from private letters to published books, and also draws on reflections of other authors of her day, including Grace Greenwood and Helen Hunt Jackson. Like Bird, Root experiences his most fulfilling moments in the mountains, climbing formidable Longs Peak, living alone in the cabin of famed editor William Allen White, and wandering wild landscapes.

Through reflections on earlier writers&; experiences, and by weighing his own response to them, Root learns not only how to come to Colorado, as visitors so often do, but more important, how to stay.

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Robert Root, Professor Emeritus of English, Central Michigan University, teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University. An author and editor, he recently published Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and The Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction.

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Verlag
University of Oklahoma Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0806140186
ISBN 13 
9780806140186
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
306
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