Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape

San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. As NEW. SIGNED - "Have you ever wondered how . . . [the city] came to be called Las Vegas? Or why it was the Natchez Trace, not the Natchez Trail? Or what the difference is between ripples and riffles in a stream? Home Ground brings together, for the first time, the distinctly American vocabulary that people use to characterize the country's landscape. Forty-five writers, with backgrounds and imagination as different as journalist Bill McKibben's and novelist Barbara Kingsolver's have crafted more than 850 definitions for words like vega and trace." Signed by Editor Lopez on the title page in turquoise felt pen. New book with no flaws.