Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West

by Robert Leonard Reid

Book Overview

A Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Yes, every inch of the globe has been seen, mapped, photographed, and measured, but is it known? Robert Leonard Reid doesn't think so. To draw a circle and calculate its diameter is not to know the circle. In this collection, Reid distinguishes himself from many science-based nature writers, using the natural world as a springboard for speculations and musings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619029294
• ISBN13: 9781619029293
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"