ISBN: 9780920897874 - icefields (nunatak fiction) (30 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Icefields is a story of adventure and discovery that unfolds amidst the stunning beauty of the Canadian Rockies. Presented within the frame of a tourist guidebook, this novel records life in the mountains, as time and the coming of the railroad slowly transform the settlement of Jasper from a place of myth and legend to a modern tourist town. Exhaustively researched, this novel blends geology and poetry, fact and fiction, history and imagination.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Icefields is a story of adventure and discovery that unfolds amidst the stunning beauty of the Canadian Rockies. Presented within the frame of a tourist guidebook, this novel records life in the mountains, as time and the coming of the railroad slowly transform the settlement of Jasper from a place of myth and legend to a modern tourist town. Exhaustively researched, this novel blends geology and poetry, fact and fiction, history and imagination.…

Zustand: Good. latest Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Zustand: Very Good. latest Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Zustand: Good. latest Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Icefields is a story of adventure and discovery that unfolds amidst the stunning beauty of the Canadian Rockies. Presented within the frame of a tourist guidebook, this novel records life in the mountains, as time and the coming of the railroad slowly transform the settlement of Jasper from a place of myth and legend to a modern tourist town. Exhaustively researched, this novel blends geology and poetry, fact and fiction, history and imagination.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Icefields is a story of adventure and discovery that unfolds amidst the stunning beauty of the Canadian Rockies. Presented within the frame of a tourist guidebook, this novel records life in the mountains, as time and the coming of the railroad slowly transform the settlement of Jasper from a place of myth and legend to a modern tourist town. Exhaustively researched, this novel blends geology and poetry, fact and fiction, history and imagination.…

paperback. Zustand: Good.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: As New. Mild shelfwear. Interior new.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 4.75 X 1 X 7.75 inches; 288 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Tight, unmarked; very light wear to corners and inside front edge; spine straight and uncreased; very minimal wear; Like the glacier that haunts its people, this novel tears up a shining ice-cathedral of a story, lovely, mysterious, and awe-inspiring. By the end, I felt that one small remarkable piece of Canada had been examined with such penetrating eyes that it had begun to glow with hints of universal truth.…

Zustand: Very Good. 19.5 x 12 cm- A tight copy-" "He stared straight ahead and realized he could see quite far into the ice. It was almost free of impurities, like a wall of furrowed tinted glass. He squinted. There was something in the ice, a shape, its outline sharpening as the light grew. A fused mass of trapped air bubbles, or a vein of snow, had formed the chance design, a white form embedded within the darker ice and revealed by the light of the sun." It all starts with an accident: a botanist falls head-first into a crevasse and glimpses a shape that could very well be an angel. What follows is a beautiful lyrical novel about memory, the slow erosion of nature, and obsession magnified by time. Icefields is a fantastic work of Canadian literature that I wish more people talked about. It uses the fictitious "Arcturus Glacier" (likely inspired by the real Athabasca glacier from my understanding) as a versatile symbol. The slow-moving mass of ice, capable of creating ephemeral structures, swallowing objects, damaging and fracturing them, only to spit them out at its terminus transformed is beautifully paralleled with the character's fallible memories. Byrne watches for three days as an architectural wonder is created. The glacier groans, cracks, thunders, and rears up a cathedral. When the sun breaks through clouds, the cathedral fills with light. The warmer air hollows it into a more baroque, flamboyant shape. Spires, archways, and gargoyles come on and begin to flow. Waterfalls set festive ice bells ringing. Then slowly, the delicate balance that kept it aloft is undermined. Even as the light glorifies it, the cathedral is diminished and begins almost imperceptibly to collapse. Sepulchral booms and crashes attest to hidden vaults and hollows, the shifting instability of the foundation. The next morning Byrne climbs to the icefall's base to find that the cathedral is gone, swallowed up in its demesne. Vanished, he writes in his notebook. It must have fallen quickly in the night. But it made no sound.-Laura.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing of the first Canadian edition of the Canadian author's first book SIGNED by Wharton on the title page with a blue ballpoint pen. No inscription and no markings by a previous owner or retailer. A paperback original in card covers. A tight, apparently unread copy. Typical shelf wear to the surface of the covers. Softening of the tips of the covers, and the surface laminate has begun to peel at the bottom corner of the front cover. Ghost of pencil erasure at top edge of the half title page. According to the publisher, the first printing numbered 2170 copies. The first edition went into at least 7 printings. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean region). An autographed Canadian first printing of Salamander is also available from this bookseller. Signed by Author(s). …

Zustand: Very Good. No Dj. 8vo Pp. 276. "At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Acturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse . . . Nearly sixty feet below the surface, Byrne is wedged upside down between the narrowing walls of a chasm, fighting. book.…

Zustand: Very Good. No Dj. 8vo Pp. 276. "At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Acturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse . . . Nearly sixty feet below the surface, Byrne is wedged upside down between the narrowing walls of a chasm, fighting. book.…

Zustand: Very Good. No Dj. 8vo Pp. 276. "At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Acturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse . . . Nearly sixty feet below the surface, Byrne is wedged upside down between the narrowing walls of a chasm, fighting. book.…

Zustand: Very Good. No Dj. 8vo Pp 276. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. "At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Acturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse . . . Nearly sixty feet below the surface, Byrne is wedged. Signed by Author. book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A near fine copy of the first Canadian edition, inscribed by the author to the previous owner. Book has been carefully read, shows some rubbing to edges, handsome ex libris sticker inside front flap, some dusting to bottom of block. Octavo, perfect bound, printed wraps, 276 pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Soft cover. Zustand: New. New Soft cover. NeWest Press, 2007. 275 pages. 7.75"x4.75". be2x.