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Author | : Barbara Maria Michalska |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2008-07-28 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1462835856 |
As title implies the poems in Desert Notes are just that; short notes each fitting a page. In four chapters the journey through desert unfolds. The landscape changes little at the start of each day leading the reader either to a stopover at one of many oases or to the very end of existence. Paradises are flickering with probing images in minds prone to exaggeration and death is a constant companion. The author attempts to balance both in a landscape humbled by scarcity. From time to time humanity steps in with self adoring ego to take into possession all left behind by gods. In a land scorched by sun anything is possible; the conquest, the perils of indignity, and stagnation in between. The authors intention was to pay a tribute to man however small endeavours he undertakes and portray the imminent loneliness of his dreams. The journey takes only 102 pages no more than an hour of the readers time.
Author | : Barry Holstun Lopez |
Publisher | : Quill |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, "River Notes and "Desert Notes. From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools; to desert springs, birds and wind, and rattlesnakes . . . and the terrible intrusion of man, Lopez allows us to share moments of intense personal experience as man tries to come to terms with the Earth's landscape, and with his own existence.
Author | : Barry Lopez |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2013-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480409189 |
Two volumes of fiction from the National Book Award–winning author of Arctic Dreams: “Lopez feels a deep spiritual connection to the natural world.” —San Francisco Chronicle To National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez, the desert and the river are landscapes alive with poetry, mystery, seduction, and enchantment. In these two works of fiction, the narrator responds viscerally and emotionally to their moods and changes, their secrets and silences, and their unique power. Desert Notes portrays the mystical power of an American desert, and the reflections it sparks in the characters who travel there. River Notes, a companion piece, celebrates the wild life forces of a river, calling readers to think deeply on identity and about the hopefulness of their onward journeys, with a lyrical collection of memories, stories, and dreams. From an evocative tale of finding a hot spring in a desert to a meditation on the thoughts and dreams of herons, Lopez offers enthralling stories that enable us to see and feel the rhythms of the wilderness. These sojourns bring readers a specific sense of the darkness, light, and resolve that we encounter within ourselves when away from home. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Author | : Barry Holstun Lopez |
Publisher | : Bard Books |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780380538195 |
A collection of poetic musings about the desert, and the power of its clarity and silence.
Author | : Barry Holstun Lopez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780330316484 |
Two of Lopez's collections of short fiction in one exhilarating and profoundly beautiful volume To National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez, the desert and the river are landscapes alive with poetry, mystery, seduction, and enchantment. In these two works of fiction, the narrator responds viscerally and emotionally to their moods and changes, their secrets and silences, and their unique power. "Desert Notes "portrays the mystical power of an American desert, and the reflections it sparks in the characters who travel there. "River Notes," a companion piece, celebrates the wild life forces of a river, calling readers to think deeply on identity and about the hopefulness of their onward journeys, with a lyrical collection of memories, stories, and dreams. From an evocative tale of finding a hot spring in a desert to a meditation on the thoughts and dreams of herons, Lopez offers enthralling stories that enable us to see and feel the rhythms of the wilderness. These sojourns bring readers a specific sense of the darkness, light, and resolve that we encounter within ourselves when away from home.""" "This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
Author | : David Douglas |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1989-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780060619930 |
Douglas' journal of a seven-day trek in the Southwest explores the spiritual meaning of the wilderness experience. 8 line drawings.
Author | : Ben Ehrenreich |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-07-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1640093540 |
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.
Author | : Grace Hansen |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1680805568 |
Readers will learn about the four major desert biomes, which are hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold deserts. The text will focus on the climate and the very special plants and animals that are found in deserts around the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.
Author | : Jeannette Walls |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2007-01-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416544666 |
A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.
Author | : Miranda MacQuitty |
Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Deserts |
ISBN | : 9780679860037 |
Discover the harsh world of hot and cold deserts and the people, plants, and animals that live there--Cover.