{"product_id":"postscripts-9780803238466","title":"Postscripts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman's meditation on time is the undercurrent running through \u003cem\u003ePostscripts\u003c\/em\u003e, a series of reflections on finding one's place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes to offer readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Root illuminates E. B. White’s ‘Once More to the Lake’ in the same way jazz greats find a musical idea in a standard and make it their own; Root offers a rich and generous account of how a writer is transformed by and can transform great literature.”—Leslie Carol Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Entire Earth and Sky \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This quiet, contemplative, and profound book is a celebration of love of places from one of our best thinkers about love of place.”—David Gessner, author of \u003ci\u003eReturn of the Osprey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In \u003ci\u003ePostscripts\u003c\/i\u003e Robert Root takes you on a tour of iconic American places; the touch is deft, the conversation deep, and Henry Thoreau and E. B. White, like old friends, seem always in the next room.”—William deBuys, author of \u003ci\u003eA Great Aridness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Root's thoughtful, leisurely essays provide an intriguing glimpse into the interior life of a scholar and writer deeply engaged not only with the physical world, but with the historical, literary, and emotional worlds that lie alongside it like ghostly photographic double exposures.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through his essays in \u003ci\u003ePostscripts\u003c\/i\u003e, Root compels the reader to share his sense of humility in the face of an \"enduring and unchangeable natural order.\"\"—Karunesh Tuli, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: Words in the Wind       \u003ci\u003e(The Green Mountains, Vermont)\u003c\/i\u003ePart 1.To Think of Time     \u003ci\u003e(The Habitation, Nova Scotia)\u003c\/i\u003ePart 2.The Pattern of Life Indelible     \u003ci\u003e(Belgrade Lakes, Maine)\u003c\/i\u003eThe Everlastingly Great Look of the Sky     \u003ci\u003e(Walden Pond, Massachusetts)\u003c\/i\u003eHere is New York     (\u003ci\u003eNew York, New York)\u003c\/i\u003ePart 3.Anasazi     \u003ci\u003e(The Four Corners)\u003c\/i\u003eKnowing Where You've Been     \u003ci\u003e(The Bitterroot Mountains, Montana)\u003c\/i\u003ePart 4.Shore Lines     \u003ci\u003e(The Great Lakes)\u003c\/i\u003eOf Trees and Time     \u003ci\u003e(Warren Woods, Michigan)\u003c\/i\u003ePart 5.Terra Cognita     \u003ci\u003e(Acadia National Park, Maine)\u003c\/i\u003eTime and Tide\u003ci\u003e     (Acadia National Park, Maine)\u003c\/i\u003eEpilogue: Postscript to a Postscript to \"The Ring of Time\"     \u003ci\u003e(Sarasota, Florida)\u003c\/i\u003eSelect Bibliography","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405252501847,"sku":"9780803238466","price":16.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803238466.jpg?v=1730489291","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postscripts-9780803238466","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}