If you haven't read "PrairyErth: A Deep Map", you may be wondering what this blog's attention is about.
As explained in this prior post, as defined by Wikipedia, a "deep map" is described by Wikipedia as "a map with greater information than a two-dimensional image of places, names, and topography." Aside from William Least Heat-Moon's richly-detailed "PrairyErth", Wallace Stegner's "Wolf Willow" (1962) is cited as another example of a "deep map". (I haven't yet read "Wolf Willow", but I intend to seek it out.)
Though "PrairyErth" only covers Chase County, Kansas, if you can sustain yourself through the 622 pages of details, you come away with a much deeper appreciation of the complexities that lay beneath the often-dismissed surface topography and grassland ecosystems of Kansas.
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