About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Lopez, Barry Holstun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679434542 ISBN 13: 9780679434542

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998

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Book by Lopez Barry

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The author presents a series of essays in which he addresses such topics as travel to some of the world's most distant destinations, nature, adventure, and personal reminiscences. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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d 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 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 peng

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• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679434542
• ISBN 13: 9780679434542
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273