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About This Life : Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry López (1998, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679434542

ISBN-139780679434542

eBay Product ID (ePID)251505

Product Key Features

Book TitleAbout this Life : Journeys on the Threshold of Memory

Number of Pages273 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAmerican / General, Essays & Travelogues

Publication Year1998

GenreLiterary Criticism, Travel

AuthorBarry López

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length9.7 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-014257

Reviews"The narrative sings with conviction .... I enjoyed this rich book hugely." - The New York Times Book Review "Lopez crosses disciplines the way he conquers continents." - The Wall Street Journal "Contemplative and poetic, sometimes even mystical.-- Lopez feels a deep spiritual connection to the natural world." - San Francisco Chronicle From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal910.4/092

SynopsisThe acclaimed 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 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. In writing about nature and people from around the world, by exploring the questions of our age, and, above all, by sharing a new openness about himself, Barry Lopez gives us a book that is at once vastly erudite yet intimate: a magically written and provocative work by a major American writer at the top of his form.

LC Classification NumberPS3562.O67Z464 1998