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Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter
ISBN: 9780380711116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death. Barry Lopez -- National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for his bestselling masterwork Of Wolves and Men -- has collected sixty-eight tales from forty-two tribes, and brings to life a timeless myth that abounds with sly wit, erotic...
Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of hi...
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69,34 zł |
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Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories
ISBN: 9780679754480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Moving from fable and historical fiction to contemporary realism, this book of stories from Barry Lopez is erotic and wise, full of irresistible characters doing things they shouldn't do for reasons that are mysterious and irreducible. In -The Letters of Heaven, - a packet of recently discovered 17th-century Peruvian love letters presents a 20th-century man with the paralyzing choice of either protecting or exposing their stunning secret. When some young boys on the lookout for easy money get caught with a truckload of stolen horses, thievery quickly turns into redemption. For a group of...
Moving from fable and historical fiction to contemporary realism, this book of stories from Barry Lopez is erotic and wise, full of irresistible chara...
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82,39 zł |
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Resistance
ISBN: 9781400076659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction-a passionate response to the changes shaping our country today. In nine fictional testimonies, men and women who have resisted the mainstream and who are now suddenly "parties of interest" to the government tell their stories.A young woman in Buenos Aires watches bitterly as her family dissolves in betrayal and illness, but chooses to seek a new understanding of compassion rather than revenge. A carpenter traveling in India changes his life when he explodes in an...
From the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams, a highly charged, stunningly original work of fiction-a passionate respon...
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73,72 zł |
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Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
ISBN: 9781400075126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez the National Book Award winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.
An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain always disturbingly unknowable. A successful financial consultant, failing to discover his roots in Africa, jogs from Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean in order to forge an indigenous connection to the American... In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez the National Book Award winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers evokes t...
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78,06 zł |
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Of Wolves and Men
ISBN: 9780684163222 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity's complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author. Humankind's relationship with the wolf is based on a spectrum of responses running from fear to admiration and affection. Lopez's classic, careful study won praise from a wide range of reviewers and went on to improve the way books about wild animals are written. Of Wolves and Men reveals the uneasy interaction between wolves and civilization over the centuries, and the wolf's prominence in our thoughts about wild creatures....
Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity's complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterwor...
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86,73 zł |
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Winter Count
ISBN: 9780679781417 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Perfectly crafted. . . . These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina." --Los Angeles Times "Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain." --San Francisco Chronicle A flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York. . . . A river in Nebraska disappearing mysteriously. . . . A ghostly herd of buffalo that sings a song of death. . . . A mystic who...
"Perfectly crafted. . . . These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina." --Los Ang...
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65,05 zł |
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
ISBN: 9780375727481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.
Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his unique meditation on how the landscape can shape our imagination, desires, and dreams. Its prose as hauntingly pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is nothing less than an indelible... Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.
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82,39 zł |
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Crossing Open Ground
ISBN: 9780679721833 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Barry Lopez, winner of the 1986 American Book Award for 'Arctic Dreams, ' weaves the same invigorating spell in 'Crossing Open Ground.' Through his crystalline vision, Lopez urges us toward a new attitude, a re-enchantment with the world that is vital to our sense of place, our well-being...our very survival.
Barry Lopez, winner of the 1986 American Book Award for 'Arctic Dreams, ' weaves the same invigorating spell in 'Crossing Open Ground.' Through his cr...
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73,72 zł |
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Of Wolves and Men
ISBN: 9780743249362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1978, this special twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the National Book Award finalist includes an entirely new afterword in which the author considers the current state of knowledge about wolves and recent efforts to reintroduce wolves to their former habitats in American wilderness areas.
Humankind's relationship with the wolf is based on a spectrum of responses running from fear to admiration and affection. Lopez's classic, careful study won praise from a wide range of reviewers and went on to improve the way books about wild animals are written. Of Wolves... Originally published in 1978, this special twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the National Book Award finalist includes an entirely new afterword in ...
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195,14 zł |
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Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places
ISBN: 9780679755012 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Thomas McGuane on Idaho's Snake River to Louise Erdrich on the tallgrass prairies of her native North Dakota to Carl Hiaasen combing the imperiled fishing grounds of the Florida Keys, some of the country's finest writers celebrate the geography that The Nature Conservancy has designated as "Last Great Places."
From Thomas McGuane on Idaho's Snake River to Louise Erdrich on the tallgrass prairies of her native North Dakota to Carl Hiaasen combing the imperile...
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73,72 zł |
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On Nature's Terms: Contemporary Voices
ISBN: 9780890965221 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Outside, where the wind is blowing, we see the world on nature's terms, and we see that it is severely endangered. Turning inward, we seek a sense of connection with nature that could perhaps help us through the current environmental crisis. In this book, some of the most observant Americans of our day explore these outer and inner worlds in powerful pieces that show the vitality and range of contemporary nature writing. John Hay's "A Faire Bay," an original collection of thoughts on the pollution of the Chesapeake, opens the book, and Edward Hoagland's "A Year as It Turns," a group of short...
Outside, where the wind is blowing, we see the world on nature's terms, and we see that it is severely endangered. Turning inward, we seek a sense of ...
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123,60 zł |
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