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About This Life

Name: About This Life
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780679754473
Price: 6116 HUF
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Journeys on the Threshold of Memory

Szerző: Barry Lopez

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Vintage Publishing

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding new essays that, read...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Barry Lopez

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1999

oldal

288

EAN

9780679754473

ISBN

0679754474

Enbook ID

11010619

Kiadó

Vintage Publishing

Súly

249

Méretek

140 x 216 x 19

Teljes leírás

The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding new essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man. With the publication of his best-selling "Of Wolves and Men, and with the astonishing originality of "Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez established himself as that rare writer whose every book is an event, for both critics and his devoted readership. Now, in "About This Life, he takes us on a literal and figurative journey across the terrain of autobiography, assembling essays of great wisdom and insight. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galapagos, enigmatic Bonaire); a naturalist's contention (Why does our society inevitably strip political power from people with intimate knowledge of the land small-scale farmers, Native Americans, Eskimos, cowboys?); and pure adventure (a dizzying series of around-the-world journeys with air freight everything from penguins to pianos). And here, too, are seven exquisite memory pieces hauntingly lyrical yet unsentimental recollections that represent Lopez's most personal work to date, and which will be read as classics of the personal essay for years to come. In writing about nature and people from around the world, by exploring the questions of our age, and, above all, by sharing a new openness about himself, Barry Lopez gives us a book that is at once vastly erudite yet intimate: a magically written and provocative work by a major American writer at the top of his form.