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Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
ISBN: 9780820331027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Barbara Hurd continues to give nature writing a human dimension in this final volume of her trilogy that began with "Stirring the Mud" and "Entering the Stone." With prose both eloquent and wise, she examines what washes ashore, from the angel wing shells to broken oars. Even a merman appears in this brilliant collection that throws light on the mysterious and the overlooked. Writing from beaches as far-flung as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and Cape Cod, she helps us see beauty in the gruesome feeding process of the moon snail. She holds up an encrusted,... Barbara Hurd continues to give nature writing a human dimension in this final volume of her trilogy that began with "Stirring the Mud" and "Enterin... |
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114,71 zł |
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Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies
ISBN: 9780820352954 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world.
Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delin...
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88,19 zł |
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Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark
ISBN: 9780820331539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes these strange dark spaces come to light, illuminating the natural history and spiritual territory of caves as powerfully as Kathleen Norris portrayed the Dakotas. "Entering the Stone" provides an awe-inducing tour through a fragile and beautiful subterranean world.
In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona...
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101,45 zł |
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Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination
ISBN: 9780820331522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In her observations of these muddy environments, she finds ample metaphor for human creativity, imagination, and fear.
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous p...
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101,45 zł |
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