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Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West
ISBN: 9780805062960 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Wallace Stegner was a literary giant. In Marking the Sparrow's Fall, the first collection of Stegner's work published since his death, Stegner's son Page has collected, annotated, and edited fifteen essays that have never before been published in any edition, as well as a little-known novella and several of Stegner's best-known essays on the American West. Seventy-five percent of the contents of this body of work is published... Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Litera... |
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91,51 zł |
Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier
ISBN: 9780141185019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best... Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait ...
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78,44 zł |
Adios Amigos: Tales of Sustenance and Purification in the American West
ISBN: 9781582435374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this free-spirited collection of essays, Page Stegner weaves natural history, conservation polemic, ecology, and wilderness adventures on a number of the West's major white-water rivers. Stegner moves effortlessly from his own experiences on the Colorado, Yampa, Green, San Juan, Dolores, and Missouri rivers to first explorations by historical figures such as Lewis and Clark and John Wesley Powell, to modern controversies that threaten the continued unspoiled isolation of these special places. From its opening essay -- recalling a hilarious, albeit hazardous, journey down the Owyhee...
In this free-spirited collection of essays, Page Stegner weaves natural history, conservation polemic, ecology, and wilderness adventures on a number ...
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73,86 zł |
American Places
ISBN: 9780143039747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West
"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of life, with what chances of continuity, have arisen out of the confrontations between an unformed society and a virgin continent. Perhaps it is less a book about the American land than some ruminationsabout the making of America. . . . We are the unfinished product of a long becoming." --from American Places For more... A book about America by one of the greatest writers of the American West
"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how ... |
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74,08 zł |