The Idyllic Land
Author | : Christine Skeeles Schloss |
Publisher | : Museum |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christine Skeeles Schloss |
Publisher | : Museum |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wendell Berry |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1582439303 |
Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty–three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry’s mastery of decades of the life lived alongside this clutch of interrelated characters bound by affection and followed over generations. This volume combines the stories found in The Wild Birds (1985), Fidelity (1992), and Watch with Me (1994), together with a map and a charting of the complex and interlocking genealogies.
Author | : Szilárd Borbély |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1681375923 |
A moving, posthumous collection of elegies and eclogues that meditate on nature, landscape, and history, by a great Hungarian poet. Szilárd Borbély spent his childhood in a tiny impoverished village in northeastern Hungary, where the archaic peasant world of Eastern Europe coexisted with the collectivist ideology of a new Communist state. Close to the Soviet border and far from any metropolitan center, the village was a world apart: life was harsh, monotonous, and often brutal, and the Borbélys, outsiders and “class enemies,” were shunned. In a Bucolic Land, Borbély’s final, posthumously published book of poems, combines autobiography, ethnography, classical mythology, and pastoral idyll in a remarkable central poetic sequence about the starkly precarious and yet strangely numinous liminal zone of his youth. This is framed by elegies for a teacher in which the poet meditates on the nature of language and speech and on the adequacy of words to speak of and for the dead. Ottilie Mulzet’s English translation conveys the full power of a writer of whom László Krasznahorkai has said, “He was a poet—a great poet—who shatters us.”
Author | : William Henry Hudson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Cornwall (England : County) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Officer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0199942765 |
Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic has lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries--pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and endurance. A Fabulous Kingdom charts these quests and the eventual race for the North Pole, chronicling the lives and adventures that would eventually throw light on this "magical realm" of sunless winters. They follow the explorers from the early journeys of Viking Ottar to the daring exploits of Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, Frederick Cook, Robert Peary, and Richard Bird. The second edition features a section entitled "The New Arctic" that illuminates current scientific and environmental issues that threaten the region. Officer and Page discuss such topics as the science behind the melting of the polar ice; the endangered species that now depend on the ice, including polar bears, narwhals, walruses, and ringed seals; commerce in mining and natural resources, especially petroleum and natural gas; and predictions for the economic and environmental future of the region. Library Journal called the first edition a "winning fusion of adventure, suspense, and history."