![]() The story gets into gear in the 1600s with England's Gabriel Archer, who seems to have labeled Martha's Vineyard according to the dictates of his own fancy Stewart deems Archer the founding father of a poetic strain in place-naming. ![]() ![]() Names on the Land earns its status as a classic by reading like a compendium of fun facts raised to a Whitmanesque prose poem. In his introduction to the reissued edition, Paris Review Deputy Editor Matt Weiland places author George Stewart (1895-1980) as a feisty generalist whose bibliography includes a definitive account of the Donner Party and the science-fiction masterpiece Earth Abides. ![]() Culture Artist Gives Old Saints New Facesįirst published in 1944 and last revised in 1967, Names on the Land, an absorbing hunk of scholarship, is an inquiry into America's shifting values, enduring vanities and defining quirks. ![]()
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