Publicado por HarperCollins, 2002
ISBN 10: 0002571420 ISBN 13: 9780002571425
Librería: HPB-Red, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Nuevo desde EUR 26,25
Usado desde EUR 7,99
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Publicado por Counterpoint, 2003
ISBN 10: 1582432384 ISBN 13: 9781582432380
Librería: Cameron Park Books, Raleigh, NC, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Very good paperback. Unmarked, bright and clean with uncreased spine. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Crease on front cover and top back corner. Enjoy reading with a real book in your hands. Shipping from North Carolina. Dedicated to delighting our customers. Delivery confirmation provided on all domestic orders. Happy to ship to international locations. Consider expedited shipping - just a little more moves your purchase a lot faster. Digital photos available on request for any book.
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Usado desde EUR 8,55
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Publicado por Counterpoint, 2002, 2002
Librería: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, Estados Unidos de America
Bound galley. Fine and bright stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp text throughout.
Publicado por Counterpoint, 2010
ISBN 10: 158243591X ISBN 13: 9781582435916
Librería: BuenaWave, Oklahoma City, OK, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: good. This is a used book that has been loved and read by a previous owner. This book shows signs of wear and has some creasing but remains a good, readable copy. May not contain codes CDs Inserts that is included with the book. *Your satisfaction is our 1 priority so please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns about your purchase. Thank you for choosing to shop with us and happy reading!.
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Nuevo desde EUR 15,41
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Publicado por Counterpoint Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1582431213 ISBN 13: 9781582431215
Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. First American Edition. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Nuevo desde EUR 23,13
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Publicado por HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2003
ISBN 10: 0006531881 ISBN 13: 9780006531883
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Nuevo desde EUR 19,18
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Publicado por Counterpoint, 2002, 2002
Librería: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
First Counterpoint Edition Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout.
Publicado por Counterpoint Press, 2002., 2002
Librería: The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Very good or better in dust jacket.
Publicado por Harper Collins, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0006531881 ISBN 13: 9780006531883
Librería: Salsus Books (P.B.F.A.), Kidderminster, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Ejemplar firmado
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. xix 284pp hardback, paperback, ownership initial to review page. Signed by Author(s).
Publicado por HarperCollins, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0002571420 ISBN 13: 9780002571425
Librería: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Yellow Paper Boards. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. xix, 284pp, illustrated with black & white drawings in text, pages clean and crisp, pencil writing to front free endpaper, yellow paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering, bottom edge of spine rubbed, unclipped dust jacket has light wear to the edges, small stain to bottom edge of rear cover, Book of the Week sticker to front cover. Size: 8.75 x 5.5 Inches. Social.
Publicado por HarperCollins 2002, 2002
Librería: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Bookplate of Lord Carrington, Near Fine in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st issue. �A man that studies Happiness must sit alone like a Sparrow upon the House Top, and like a Pelican in the Wilderness� � Thomas Traherne. Celebrated novelist Isabel Colegate explores the lives and works of those who've followed the call of solitude, from Lao Tzu and the Desert Fathers to Wordsworth and Thoreau.In A Pelican in the Wilderness, Isabel Colegate casts through time and place to uncover tales of human solitude.The quest for solitude � whether for social, religious, personal or intellectual reasons � dates back to ancient times. As a spiritual phenomenon it has its roots in Chinese, Hindu and Western philosophies; from the mystical Desert Fathers � the most famous of which was St Jerome � who cast themselves out into deserts and wastelands in search of spiritual revelation, to the Celts on Iona and Lindisfarne (who arrived with only onions to live on). Rousseau found solitaries inspirational, (but declared that he would die of boredom if he had to become a hermit himself, a view possibly shared by St Jerome who only managed to stay in the desert for two years).Hermits and hermitages even used to be a feature of rural and urban England. Sir John Soane had a hermit's cell installed in his house in Lincolns' Inn. At Hawkstone in Shropshire in the 1780s it was reported that a live hermit was seen gazing at a human skull. And in the eighteenth-century it was seen as highly fashionable to place a hermitage in landscaped gardens; an advert would then be placed for a hermit, specifying particular requirements such as a promise not to cut hair, nails or beard. In return the hermit would receive food and a small gratuity. One hermit in Painshill, Surrey was sacked for drinking beer in the village inn.But of course, recluses, solitaries, hermits, anchoresses (female solitaries) and 'loners' continue to exist to this day, quietly opting to live outside society or living in complete seclusion in wildernesses. Isabel Colegate examines their lives, motivations, self-reflections, writings and the thoughts of present-day urban and rural hermits.Those who love Colegate's fiction will find all of its virtues here: historical imagination, quicksilver characterization, understated wit, and an eye for the bizarre matched by a power to evoke the sublime. ISBN 0002571420.