wyszukanych pozycji: 6
The Pancake Stories/Cuentos del Panqueque
ISBN: 9780826353870 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Children and their parents and grandparents will love these stories of family life, entitled The Pancake Stories because they begin with Timothy Taylor s adventure in making breakfast for his parents. Peggy Pond Church, one of the great New Mexico authors of the twentieth century, wrote these stories for her own sons in the 1930s, and her daughter-in-law Elizabeth Church created the illustrations in the 1950s. Now at last they are published, both in the original English and in Noel Chilton s Spanish translation. All the Pancake Stories are about Timothy Taylor and his... Children and their parents and grandparents will love these stories of family life, entitled The Pancake Stories because they begin with T... |
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The Burro of Angelitos
ISBN: 9780865349650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Burro of Angelitos," charming and beautifully illustrated as it is, delightful to children and their adults, is actually a bit of a political statement. In 1930s New Mexico, artists, writers and ethnologists were convinced that the coming of modernity would mean the end of a way of life that they found original and beautiful and unique. Fortunately, the adventures of this independent little burro of the past, in a community that might be one of several villages still to be found in Northern New Mexico, will charm us today. While some might expect Tranquilidad de Onate, the burro's...
"The Burro of Angelitos," charming and beautifully illustrated as it is, delightful to children and their adults, is actually a bit of a political sta...
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Foretaste, Poems
ISBN: 9780865341418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Here are pages with delicately-carved poems, fragrant with the sage of high mesas, light as a cirrus cloud, warm as red blood, vibrant as the strings of a violin. The reader catches glimpses, feels touches of the sensitive character of the poet, sensitive not so much to darkness as to light in all its nuances of color, movement, and design. Of acid there is not a trace. There are cloud-shadows, the flight of a fairy, altars, the turn of the earth, lilac roots, turquoise in the wind. "The author has divided her book into two parts, but the poems arrange themselves into four spheres: poems...
"Here are pages with delicately-carved poems, fragrant with the sage of high mesas, light as a cirrus cloud, warm as red blood, vibrant as the strings...
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The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos
ISBN: 9780826302816 / Angielski / Miękka / 1973 / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. She was a remarkable woman, a friend to everyone who knew her, from her Indian companion Tilano, who was an elder of San Ildefonso, to Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, and the other atomic scientists who worked at Los Alamos during World War II. "A finely told tale of a strange land and of a rare character who united with it and, without seeming to do anything to that end, exerted an unusual influence upon all other lovers of that soil... This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indians of San Ildefonso Pueblo, near Los Alamos, New ... |
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Familiar Journey, Poems
ISBN: 9780865341340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this, her second volume of poetry, Peggy Pond Church pursues the course indicated in "Foretaste" first published in 1933 and now in a new edition from Sunstone Press. In "Familiar Journey" there is the same dark feminine principle further amplified in this collection of personal lyrics. Both the title poem and the rest of the contents show the author's progress along the road all must travel. Most of the images used in these poems reflect nature; most keen and sharp and freshly worded, signifying an observance of the small things that are individual, accurate and vivid. In the group of...
In this, her second volume of poetry, Peggy Pond Church pursues the course indicated in "Foretaste" first published in 1933 and now in a new edition f...
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Bones Incandescent: The Pajarito Journals of Peggy Pond Church
ISBN: 9780896724389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A personal ecology is what poet and writer Peggy Pond Church called the journals she kept for more than fifty years on New Mexico s Pajarito Plateau. Church s work appeared regularly in Poetry and Saturday Review of Literature and her biography of Edith Warner, The House at Otowi Bridge, became a regional classic. She had a profound relationship with the place now known best for the Los Alamos laboratories and the Manhattan Project. The journals from her childhood in the 1930s through 1986, the year of her death, are studies in spiritual and psychological responses to the landscape that...
A personal ecology is what poet and writer Peggy Pond Church called the journals she kept for more than fifty years on New Mexico s Pajarito Plateau. ...
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144,96 zł |