Author: Edward Abbey
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806281
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words. The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts to identify what's happening in the author's life at the time. When relevant, some details of publishing history are provided.
Serpent in Paradise
Author: Dea Birkett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780330343374
Category : Pitcairn Island
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Serpent In Paradise is Dea's account of her quest for Utopia and of the heart-wrenching reality shared by the tiny community of Pitcairn Island - all descendants of the Bounty mutineers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780330343374
Category : Pitcairn Island
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Serpent In Paradise is Dea's account of her quest for Utopia and of the heart-wrenching reality shared by the tiny community of Pitcairn Island - all descendants of the Bounty mutineers
The Serpents of Paradise
Author: Edward Abbey
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805031331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From boyhood in Home, Pennsylvania, to his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1989, this book offers - in Abbey's own words - the world of an American original. Whether writing fact or fiction, Abbey was always an autobiographer. Each of the thirty-five selections presented here, arranged chronologically by date of incident (not of publication), demonstrates that Abbey was passionately, insistently his own man. As poet-farmer Wendell Berry puts it: "He remains Edward Abbey, speaking as and for himself, fighting, literally, for dear life ... for the survival not only of nature, but of human nature, of culture, as only our heritage of works and hopes can define it". To speak for the voiceless was his mission. He was a virtuoso of the well-phrased thought in which style and content, symbol and meaning - each imbued with humor - come together to defy the powerful, reminding us always that preservation of wild nature is a key to a free spirit. And along with Emerson and Thoreau, Abbey, the uncompromising stylist, knew that the corruption of language follows the corruption of man. "Language", Abbey wrote, "seeks to transcend itself, 'to grasp the thing that has no name.'"
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805031331
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From boyhood in Home, Pennsylvania, to his death in Tucson, Arizona, in 1989, this book offers - in Abbey's own words - the world of an American original. Whether writing fact or fiction, Abbey was always an autobiographer. Each of the thirty-five selections presented here, arranged chronologically by date of incident (not of publication), demonstrates that Abbey was passionately, insistently his own man. As poet-farmer Wendell Berry puts it: "He remains Edward Abbey, speaking as and for himself, fighting, literally, for dear life ... for the survival not only of nature, but of human nature, of culture, as only our heritage of works and hopes can define it". To speak for the voiceless was his mission. He was a virtuoso of the well-phrased thought in which style and content, symbol and meaning - each imbued with humor - come together to defy the powerful, reminding us always that preservation of wild nature is a key to a free spirit. And along with Emerson and Thoreau, Abbey, the uncompromising stylist, knew that the corruption of language follows the corruption of man. "Language", Abbey wrote, "seeks to transcend itself, 'to grasp the thing that has no name.'"
Paradise with Serpents
Author: Robert Carver
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Robert Carver, journalist and author of the acclaimed Among the Mountains', searches for high adventure and intense experiences as he follows the trail of a family mystery .
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Robert Carver, journalist and author of the acclaimed Among the Mountains', searches for high adventure and intense experiences as he follows the trail of a family mystery .
The Serpents of Paradise
Author: Edward Abbey
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806281
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words. The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts to identify what's happening in the author's life at the time. When relevant, some details of publishing history are provided.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806281
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words. The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts to identify what's happening in the author's life at the time. When relevant, some details of publishing history are provided.
The Serpent of Paradise
Author: Miguel Serrano
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780710077844
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780710077844
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Paradise Block
Author: Alice Ash
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788165556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788165556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
See You in Paradise
Author: J. Robert Lennon
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555973280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The first substantial collection of short fiction from "a writer with enough electricity to light up the country" (Ann Patchett) "I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal," observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of J. Robert Lennon's distinctive and brilliantly comic take on the pathos and surreality at the heart of American life. In Lennon's America, a portal to another universe can be discovered with surprising nonchalance in a suburban backyard, adoption almost reaches the level of blood sport, and old pals return from the dead to steal your girlfriend. Sexual dysfunction, suicide, tragic accidents, and career stagnation all create surprising opportunities for unexpected grace in this full-hearted and mischievous depiction of those days (weeks, months, years) we all have when things just don't go quite right.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555973280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The first substantial collection of short fiction from "a writer with enough electricity to light up the country" (Ann Patchett) "I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal," observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of J. Robert Lennon's distinctive and brilliantly comic take on the pathos and surreality at the heart of American life. In Lennon's America, a portal to another universe can be discovered with surprising nonchalance in a suburban backyard, adoption almost reaches the level of blood sport, and old pals return from the dead to steal your girlfriend. Sexual dysfunction, suicide, tragic accidents, and career stagnation all create surprising opportunities for unexpected grace in this full-hearted and mischievous depiction of those days (weeks, months, years) we all have when things just don't go quite right.
The Serpent of Paradise
Author: Miguel Serrano
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Serpents of Paradise
Author: Edward Abbey
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780805031324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Collects the best and most inflammatory writings of the late naturalist, environmentalist, and libertarian, a former National Park ranger and the author of Desert Solitaire, The Journey Home, and other works. 12,500 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo.
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780805031324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Collects the best and most inflammatory writings of the late naturalist, environmentalist, and libertarian, a former National Park ranger and the author of Desert Solitaire, The Journey Home, and other works. 12,500 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo.
Serpents in paradise
Author: Herbert Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780352300874
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780352300874
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description