Book by McNamee Gregory
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Gathers essays about deserts, desert ecology, and the fragility of the desert environment
lub Desert Reader is the inaugural volume in a new series of literary celebrations of the Earth's biomes -- the major ecological communities that have shaped the collective human experience.
This unprecedented, global anthology of fiction, poetry, folklore, natural history, travel commentary, and more, collected and introduced by a preeminent environmental writer, demonstrates the desert's power to enthrall and inspire our finest thinkers and writers.
Represented in this distinguished volume are poets from ancient China (translated by Ezra Pound), Egyptian inscriptions, the logs of Captain James Cook, and the chilling fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe. Among other names drawn from many genres are Charles Doughty, Marco Polo, Mark Twain, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, T. E. Lawrence, Bruce Chatwin, Edith Wharton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jorge Luis Borges, as well as classic desert advocates Mary Austin, John Muir, and Edward Abbey.
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Soft cover. Condición: Good. 1995. Natural history, general. Sierra Club Books. Good+ paperback with research departmental library stamping on fore-edge, no pockets 307p. Nº de ref. del artículo: 7504
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Librería: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Near fine. Paperback white quarto with orange to spine. xxiv, 307 pages; 21 cm. Contents: The Arabian and Indian deserts: Ruins / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- A prayer & invocation to the Prince of rain / Eleazar Ha-Kallir -- The wilderness of Judea / Gertrude Bell -- Light / Pierre Loti -- From Jum'a al-Fararja to Jazi Al 'Aradi / Jum'a Al-Fararja -- Lawrence comes to Arabia / T.E. Lawrence -- Arabia deserta / Charles M. Doughty -- The historic fart / Iraqi folktale -- The Persian desert / Marco Polo; Inner Asia: The road to Ashkabad / Ella R. Christie -- A nightmare on the Turkmeni dunes / Andrei Platonov -- The Tebbad / Arminius Vambery -- High desert / Theodore & Kermit Roosevelt -- Prester John / Sir John Mandeville -- Distances of the Gobi / Mongolian wedding song -- The lake among the singing dunes / Mildred Cable -- On foot across the Gobi / Slavomir Rawicz -- Exile / Li T'ai Po & Li Yi; Australia: Where the frost comes from / Noongahburrah folktale -- Aborigines / William Dampier & James Cook -- The Simpson desert / Charles Sturt -- Ayers Rock / Baldwin Spencer & F.J. Gillen -- Native cat stakes out his territory / Pintupi folktale -- Rain / Tingarri song -- The music of the desert / Bruce Chatwin; Antarctica: World's end / Edgar Allan Poe -- Death in the polar desert / William Bowers & Robert Scott -- Cold / Richard Byrd -- Admiralty Bay / David Campbell. Abstract: Gathers essays, folktales, poetry, and other writings about deserts, desert ecology, and the fragility of the desert environment. Price label to back cover. Extremely mild rubbing to head and foot of spine. Near fine. Nº de ref. del artículo: 89735
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