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Raffles, Hugh

 
9781891241734: The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
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ISBN 10: 1891241737 ISBN 13: 9781891241734
Editorial: Verse Chorus Press, 2022

Sinopsis

When anthropologist Hugh Raffles''s two sisters died suddenly within weeks of one another, he reached for rocks as reassuringly solid objects, ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. His book is grounded in stories of specific stones and their intimate relationships to human activity - the seam of marble under Manhattan prized by its native Lenape people, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified blubber on Svalbard''s beaches left by the brutal 19th-century whaling industry - culminating in the heart-breaking story of six Inuit adventurers Robert Peary transported from Greenland to display alongside a huge iron-ore meteorite in 1890s New York.

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Acerca del autor

Hugh Raffles is the author of Insectopedia, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Orion Book Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science, and of In Amazonia: A Natural History which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays, Granta, Orion, and The New York Times, and he is the recipient of the Whiting Award for nonfiction. He lives in New York City and is professor of anthropology at The New School.

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Editorial
Verse Chorus Press
Año de publicación
2022
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ISBN 10 
1891241737
ISBN 13 
9781891241734
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Número de páginas
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