Seeing Earth: Literary Responses To Space Exploration
by Weber, Ronald
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0821407910
- ISBN 13
- 9780821407912
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Ohio University Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "To Anita + Joe -- A small book but much affection. Ron, 2/20/85." A handsome work of literary criticism, growing out of his interest in the theme of "journey" in American literature: "The author surveys what has been writing about space exploration and calls attention to its dominant use as a means of deflecting attention back to earth and earthly concerns." Writers discuss include Tom Wolfe, Carl Sagan, James Michener, Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey, Saul Bellow, Ray Bradbury, and many others. Fine book in fine jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 927
- Title
- Seeing Earth: Literary Responses To Space Exploration
- Author
- Weber, Ronald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0821407910
- ISBN 13
- 9780821407912
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Place of Publication
- Athens, Oh
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Space, Literary Criticism
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Rural Hours
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About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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