RIVER IN A DRY LAND - A Prairie Passage by Herriot, Trevor - 2000

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 2000. 356 pp. Green boards lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art by Brian Hoxha. Illustrated with maps and drawings. The Contents are: Prologue: River of Voices. Part One: The Dirt Hills: Lines on the Circle; Boundaries; The Ways of Water. Part Two: Lost Headwaters: Equality of Origin; These Are the Shards; Monuments and Legends; Riparia Riparia. Part Three: West to East: Summit Creek, Aiktow Creek; Darmody Flats; Iskwao Creek; Eyebrow Marsh to Buffalo Pound; Buffalo Pound to Arm River; Lanigan Creek; South from Last Mountain Lake; Pelican Point; Piapot; Carry-the-Kettle; Standing Buffalo; Callin's Terrain; Ellisboro to Round Lake; Ochapowace. Part Four: Laird of the Little Cutarm: By the River; Tantallon; The Crofter's Trail; Narratives of Endurance and Joy; Hamona; Entering the Garden; Carpenters and Masons; Bank Deposits; Faith; The Laird Doesn't Plough; Swine; Hunting and Gathering; Gypsies; Fathers; Sons; Swallows and Nomads; This Garden Universe; and Epilogue: Fair Day, Tantallon; followed by an index.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Brian Hoxha;. 8vo.