{"product_id":"postscripts-robert-root-9780803238466","title":"Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman's meditation on time is the undercurrent running through \u003ci\u003ePostscripts\u003c\/i\u003e, a series of reflections on finding one's place in the endless chain of time. In linked essays, Robert Root ranges across American terrains and landscapes including locales as varied as Walden Pond and Mesa Verde, the mountains of Montana and the coastline of Maine, Great Lakes shorelines and Manhattan on the first day of the war with Iraq.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich in \"all that retrospection,\" \u003ci\u003ePostscripts\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles moments of intimacy and arrival in the natural world while also charting intersections of natural, cultural, and personal history. Whether revisiting the first European settlement in Nova Scotia or seeking out the sites of E. B. White's life and literature, exploring the only old-growth forest in lower Michigan or shifting perceptions at the birth of a granddaughter, Root offers readers a new perspective on the relationship between time and place, time and timelessness, history and personal history. If the past is prologue, his book suggests, the present is postscript. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Root\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803238460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803238466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.18w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/02\/2012 pg. 58\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Root","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47135250514175,"sku":"9780803238466","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_48be4cad-d5dc-4959-b457-812e3be0c5e0.jpg?v=1755009583","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/postscripts-robert-root-9780803238466","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}