Accidental Gravity: Residents, Travelers, and the Landscape of Memory

by Bernard Quetchenbach

The compelling essays in Bernard Quetchenbach's Accidental Gravity move from upstate New York to the western United States, from urban and suburban places to wild lands. In the first section of the book, he focuses on suburban neighborhoods, where residents respond ambivalently to golf-course geese and other unruly natural presences; in the second section, he juxtaposes these humanized places with Yellowstone National Park. Quetchenbach writes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870718878
• ISBN13: 9780870718878
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"