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Drylands, a Rural American Saga
Steve Turner
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Description for Drylands, a Rural American Saga
Hardback. Provides a true portrait of the American landscape, of those who have failed, those who have prospered, and those who struggle on Num Pages: 144 pages, 36 color photographs, 71 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWS; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 4522 x 6452 x 15. Weight in Grams: 599.
Family values, hard-won success, and tough love for tough times: when we talk about America as an image and an ideal it is generally the enduring reality of middle-American virtue, deep roots, and rural life that we imagine. Focusing on Adams County in the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington, Drylands, a Rural American Saga is a pictorial essay documenting the reality underlying our national self-portrait. Both an exception to and a paradigm of the country’s agricultural folkways, Adams County offers a panorama of rolling cropland, sagebrush scree, and deep coulees formed by volcanic forces and ice-age floods. The shortage of ... Read more
Family values, hard-won success, and tough love for tough times: when we talk about America as an image and an ideal it is generally the enduring reality of middle-American virtue, deep roots, and rural life that we imagine. Focusing on Adams County in the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington, Drylands, a Rural American Saga is a pictorial essay documenting the reality underlying our national self-portrait. Both an exception to and a paradigm of the country’s agricultural folkways, Adams County offers a panorama of rolling cropland, sagebrush scree, and deep coulees formed by volcanic forces and ice-age floods. The shortage of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803234246
SKU
V9780803234246
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About Steve Turner
Lionel Delevingne is an independent photojournalist whose credits include the New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post Magazine, Mother Jones, and Vanity Fair. He has had many solo exhibits both in the United States and abroad and is the coauthor of Northampton: Reflections on Paradise and Franco-American Viewpoints. Steve Turner is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, ... Read more
Reviews for Drylands, a Rural American Saga
“Drylands is a beautiful, soulful exploration of an ordinary place made extraordinary through the words and pictures of two accomplished craftsmen. It is evocative of the best collaborations between writers and artists who explore rural America, going beyond a simple elegy for rural life and choosing instead to frame Adams County as both a unique place and a proving ground for ... Read more