Study Out the Land

by T.K. Whipple

"Published in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the University of California."

Genres: Nonfiction, Essays

215 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1943

Reviews

[Tyler McGaughey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel compelled to write something a bit substantial here, since Mr. Whipple's books have a grand total of zero reviews, but the fact is I was only interested in this book because it is quoted in the epigraph for Lonesome Dove. The excerpt is from the essay "The Myth of the Old West," and it reads as follows: 'Our forebears had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live; and what they lived, we dream.'

[Ben R · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some gems, and the first third was enjoyable and thought-provoking, but the bulk of the last two-thirds could be skipped.