The Sierra Club Desert Reader: A Literary Companion - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871564262 ISBN 13: 9780871564269

Verlag: Sierra Club Books, 1996

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Book by McNamee Gregory

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Gathers essays about deserts, desert ecology, and the fragility of the desert environment

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lub Desert Reader is the inaugural volume in a new series of literary celebrations of the Earth's biomes -- the major ecological communities that have shaped the collective human experience.

This unprecedented, global anthology of fiction, poetry, folklore, natural history, travel commentary, and more, collected and introduced by a preeminent environmental writer, demonstrates the desert's power to enthrall and inspire our finest thinkers and writers.

Represented in this distinguished volume are poets from ancient China (translated by Ezra Pound), Egyptian inscriptions, the logs of Captain James Cook, and the chilling fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe. Among other names drawn from many genres are Charles Doughty, Marco Polo, Mark Twain, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, T. E. Lawrence, Bruce Chatwin, Edith Wharton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jorge Luis Borges, as well as classic desert advocates Mary Austin, John Muir, and Edward Abbey.

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• Verlag: Sierra Club Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0871564262
• ISBN 13: 9780871564269
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: McNamee Gregory