About This Life: journeys on the threshold of memory
by Barry Lopez
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0679754474
- ISBN 13
- 9780679754473
- Seller
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Missoula, Montana, United States
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About This Item
The acclaimed National Book Award winner gives us a collection of spellbinding essays that, read together, form a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of an extraordinary man.
Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galápagos, 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.
Synopsis
Barry Lopez is the author of six works of nonfiction and eight works of fiction. His writing appears regularly in Harper's , The Paris Review, DoubleTake, and The Georgia Review . He is the recipient of a National Book Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other honors. He lives in western Oregon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ5439414
- Title
- About This Life
- Author
- Barry Lopez
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679754474
- ISBN 13
- 9780679754473
- Publisher
- Vintage Books/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- nature, travel, essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science/Nature Writing;