Publicado por Vintage (edition Reprint), 1992
ISBN 10: 0679740244 ISBN 13: 9780679740247
Librería: BooksRun, Philadelphia, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Good. Reprint. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.
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Nuevo desde EUR 13,84
Usado desde EUR 3,61
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Publicado por Pantheon Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 067940516X ISBN 13: 9780679405160
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.73.
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Nuevo desde EUR 28,19
Usado desde EUR 5,62
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Publicado por Vintage, NY, 2001
ISBN 10: 0804172447 ISBN 13: 9780804172448
Librería: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Paperback. Condición: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Second Edition. 1st printing, Sept. 2001. Trade-sized. Photo cover. Minor creasing, bumps and dings.
Publicado por Vintage Books, 1991
Librería: Sapsucker Books, Grafton, VT, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good, Softcover, ISBN 0-679-74024-4.
Publicado por Vintage, 1992., 1992
Librería: The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Very good.
Publicado por Pantheon, New York, 1991
Librería: Tschanz Rare Books, Salt Lake City, UT, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
First Edition. 304pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 green cloth over tan boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near Fine. In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a byproduct of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.
Publicado por Pantheon, 2000
ISBN 10: 067940516X ISBN 13: 9780679405160
Librería: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: CBA
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, stated. Inscribed by Williams on the half-title page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light wear to panel edges. A small smudge and a blemish to upper text block edge. 1cm peeled area to edge of half-title page. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows a small closed tear along spine, in a mylar cover. 304pp. Signed by Author.
Publicado por life SDX Joint Publishing; 1 (April 1. 2010), 2010
ISBN 10: 7108033976 ISBN 13: 9787108033970
Librería: liu xing, Nanjing JiangSu, JS, China
Soft cover. Condición: New. Language:Chinese.Author:TE LI TAN PI SI TE WEI LIAN SI (Terry Tempest Williams).Binding:Soft cover.Publisher:life SDX Joint Publishing; 1 (April 1. 2010).
Publicado por Vintage Books, New York, 1992
Librería: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Ejemplar firmado
Paperback. Condición: Very Good +. Later printing. Trade paperbound book. 304 pp. Later printing from the first paperbound edition. A touching memoir by the author of Pieces of White Shell. A clean very good plus copy. This copy has been both SIGNED by the author (on the title page) and has separately INSCRIBED this copy dated in 1998 to two poets of note. The inscription runs most of an entire page and is quite touching.
Publicado por Pantheon Books, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 067940516X ISBN 13: 9780679405160
Librería: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First edition. SIGNED. 304pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 green cloth over speckled tan boards. Title stamped in gold on spine. Author's initials blind stamped on front board. The boards are just a hair cocked. In the illustrated dust jacket. A book-length essay by award-winning environmentalist author Terry Tempest Williams. A moving story about the author's mother who is diagnosed with ovarian cancer during the same year that the Great Salt Lake rose to record heights, threatening to destroy the fragile wetlands in the surrounding area. She writes about the loss that accompanies both of these devastating events. Warmly inscribed, in the year of publication, by the author on the half title: "Winter Solstice / 1991 / Dearest ____ / This book comes to / you with all my love / in the name of shared / hearts and lives at / Sam Weller's Bookstore. / Bless you in your / health and in your / sharing of what you / know / Refuge / In the Land / In each other / Fondly, / Terry Tempest Williams.".
Publicado por Pantheon, NY, 1991
ISBN 10: 067940516X ISBN 13: 9780679405160
Librería: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Near fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near fine. First edition. A standout association copy, inscribed on the half-title page to Earth First! cofounder Ron Kezar: "February 5, 1992, Salt Lake City. Dearest Ron, This book comes to you in the name of shared affection toward wildness--internal as well as external. Bless you in your vigilance . . . what you inspire in all of us. Refuge, in the land, in each other, Fondly, Terry." Kezar was a former park ranger who later sometimes used the alias Bill Haywood (as in the byline ofEcodefence: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching). Inspired by Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, and especially Edward Abbey and his The Monkey Wrench Gang, he, Dave Foreman, and three others came up withEF!in 1980 while on a trip to bag a New Mexico peak. Kezar and Foreman were housemates at the time. EF! promoted pushing past the usual lobbying and into "demonstrations" and "confrontations," and one of their famous first acts was unfurling an enormous dark banner that looked like a crack down the Glen Canyon Dam. Refugeis in this lineage especially in its last chapter, "The Clan of the One-breasted Women," in which Williams takes part in a protest and is arrested after trespassing onto the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. The book is about the decline and death of William's mother due to cancer (possibly because Utah was downwind of the nuclear testing) alongside the decline in the level of the Great Salt Lake and thus its hyper-salinification. Each chapter is titled after a different wetland bird.Refugeissaid to be the single-most bestselling contemporary environmental book of the last few decades of the 20th century. A near fine copy with boards that don't quite lay flat (an homage to the aridity of the Interior West); in a very near fine jacket with just one small scuff to lower edge of rear panel. An excellent association that speaks to the history of protest in the environmental movement.