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Author Dodd, Elizabeth Caroline, 1962-

Title Horizon's lens : my time on the turning world / Elizabeth Dodd.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: Solstitial -- The here and now -- Belt of Venus -- Geochronicity -- Assemblage -- Standstill -- Ruin -- Megalithic north -- The middle fork -- Sinuous -- Long count -- Isogloss -- Constellation.
Summary In a lyrical memoir and meditation on the nature of time and place, Elizabeth Dodd explores a variety of landscapes, reading the records left by inhabitants and by time itself. In spring in the Yucatán peninsula, she marks the equinox among the ruins of the Maya. In summer in the Orkney Islands, she considers linguistic and historic connections with Icelandic sagas. In tallgrass country in the fall, she observes bison and black-footed ferrets returning to their ancestral landscape. In winter in the canyons of the Ancestral Puebloans, she notes the standstill positions of the sun and the moon.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States -- Historical geography -- Fiction.
United States.
Historical geography.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Other Form: 9780803240780
9780803244672
ISBN 9780803244672 (electronic book)
0803244673 (electronic book)
0803240783 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780803240780 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780803240780 (paperback alkaline paper)