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The Country of Language
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Praise and Prizes
“The link between language and ‘nonhuman nature’ is the thread that draws together this set of graceful, autobiographical essays, works as simple, elegant, and enduring as Shaker furniture. Scott Russell Sanders shares his earliest memories of the Midwest countryside, and of learning the alphabets of animal tracks, tree bark, flowers, and plants just as avidly as he learned to read and write.”
Kirkus
“In his usual articulate and well-crafted prose, Scott Russell Sanders continues to relate everyday and natural experiences to greater meanings. . . . His writing, he says, is his way of asking questions.”
Library Journal
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