Prairyerth: A Deep Map - William Least Heat Moon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. By the author of Blue Highways , PrairyErth is a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains ( Hungry Mind Review ). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County -- a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas -- exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a modern-day Walden by the Chicago Sun-Times , PrairyErth is a journey through place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road . A sense of the American grain that will give [ PrairyErth ] a permanent place in the literature of our country. -- Paul Theroux, New York Times