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This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words.
The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts...
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Oregon literature volume 5
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Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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Presents the cherished traditional stories and myths of Oregon's literary heritage.
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1982]
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English
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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
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Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Dr. Michio Kaku, one of the most influential living scientists and a New York Times best-selling author, selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and, in the process, uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines.
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year"--
"'This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,' guest editor Bill McKibben writes, 'the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling.' The selections in The Best American Science and Nature...
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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From Publishers Weekly: The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) arranges the more than 200 selections according to themes like "The Flag," "Freedom of Speech," "Work, Opportunity and Invention" and "The Individual," and devotes equal space to the official, the devotional and the oppositional. The Declaration of Independence...
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Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. "Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and nature writing essential," observes New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery. "Science and nature writing are how we share the truth about the universe with the...
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English
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"A generous selection of Frazier's most sophisticated and uproarious feature stories"--
"Part muckraker, part adventurer and part raconteur, the author, in a humorous collection of stories, collects his best essays and reportage from the past 10 years that beholds, captures and occasionally reimagines the spirit of the American experience. By the author of Travels in Siberia."--
18) Chicken Soup for the Soul: random acts of kindness : 101 stories of compassion and paying it forward
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Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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