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Summary: In this collection of new and previously published essays, Jim Harrison muses on everything from grouse hunting and fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life and death on the US/Mexico border.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARBass, Rick
Summary: "For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us. Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BASWalton, Anthony
Summary: "Blending social history, bracing analysis, and autobiography in essays that investigate the hard realities and measured hopes of African Americans in the early twenty-first century, acclaimed author Anthony Walton arrives at fresh and startling conclusions. In this dazzling collection of essays, acclaimed author Anthony Walton reflects on the progress and setbacks-both the unprecedented...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godine