About this life
journeys on the threshold of memory
1st ed.
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Word Count
68,250 words, Guess
Page Count
273 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL354525M
- ISBN-100679434542
- OCLC Control Number38478569
- OCLC Control Number302019899
- OCLC Control Numberisbn_9780679434542
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- Library of Congress Control Number98014257
- Goodreads1118149
- LibraryThing35263
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3562.O67 Z464 1998
Description
In About This Life. Barry Lopez takes us on a literal and figurative journey across the terrain of autobiography, assembling essays of wisdom and insight. Here is far flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galapagos, 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.
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