{"product_id":"9780929398648","title":"Words from a Wide Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoyed books like \u003ci\u003eA Sand County Almanac\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eA Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek\u003c\/i\u003e, you’ll love \u003ci\u003eWords from a Wide Land\u003c\/i\u003e. Barney brings insights of people and places, natural phenomena, birds, animals, insects, and other things he has encountered in many years of living and traveling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these entries (a year’s worth, though not in chronological order by year), can be found humor, romance, delight, philosophy, even terror. He has measured the life about him with a flair, which at times bursts into poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the book: “September 6, 1977. The migration of birds resembles Pickett’s Charge. Thousands are lost in frontal collisions with skyscrapers, are picked off by rough predators, buffeted by wind and storm. But they keep coming on, advancing, year after year, as if there were no Cemetery Ridge.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMay 12, 1967. The Swainson thrush has been fluting his little strangled bugle call from the red mulberry tree now several days. It is much like the wood thrush's call in quality, but reduced in an echo chamber, to a mere whisper. Still, it is an unmistakable signature of one week in May, which I have hardly heard at any other time.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028653424880,"sku":"9780929398648","price":12.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780929398648","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}