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In the Country of the Blind

Product Description: Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three. This capstone novel, set in Vermontâs Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind...read more

By Edward Hoagland

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9781628727210 | Arcade Pub, November 1, 2016, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Sixty years after the publication of his first novel, Cat Man, Edward Hogland is publishing his twenty-fifth book at the age of eighty-three.

The Devil's Tub: Collected Stories

Product Description: Edward Hoagland, best known for his essays, is also an extraordinary writer of fiction, as readers of his stories ÂThe Final Fate of the Alligatorsâ and ÂKwanâs Coney Islandâ can attest. First published in periodicals such as the Paris Review, Esquire, the New Yorker, New American Review, and Saul Bellowâs famous literary magazine, the Noble Savage, Hoaglandâs stories amazed readers with their precise language and finely etched characters...read more

By Edward Hoagland

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9781628724486 | Arcade Pub, November 18, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Edward Hoagland, best known for his essays, is also an extraordinary writer as fiction, as readers of his stories ÂThe Final Fate of Alligatorsâ and ÂKwan's Coney Islandâ can attest.

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9781628726473 | Arcade Pub, June 7, 2016, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Edward Hoagland, best known for his essays, is also an extraordinary writer of fiction, as readers of his stories ÂThe Final Fate of the Alligatorsâ and ÂKwanâs Coney Islandâ can attest.

On Nature: Selected Essays

Product Description: Annie Dillard observes "The best of Edward Hoagland is the best in the land." Now, in a beautiful new hardcover edition, signed by the author, and includingÂ new material,Â comes theÂ best observations on nature by the finest essayist of our time.

By Edward Hoagland

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9781493006120 | Signed edition (Lyons Pr, November 7, 2014), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Annie Dillard observes "The best of Edward Hoagland is the best in the land.

Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse

By Edward Hoagland

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9781611458343 | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, June 1, 2013), cover price $23.95

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9781628724202 | Arcade Pub, November 11, 2014, cover price $14.95

Sex and the River Styx

Product Description: Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years...read more

By Edward Hoagland

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9781603583367 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, February 7, 2011, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection.

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9781603583374 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, February 7, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection.

Henry David Thoreau: Walden

Product Description: "Perhaps the most remarkable book in the American canon. As dense as scripture, crowded with aphorism, Walden is full enough of ideas for a score of ordinary books." -Bill McKibben In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts...read more

By Edward Hoagland (introduced by) and Henry David Thoreau

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9781598530636 | 1 edition (Library of America, December 31, 2009), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: "Perhaps the most remarkable book in the American canon.

Early in the Season: A British Columbia Journal

Product Description: By 1968, Edward Hoagland had successfully published three novels, including the award-winning Cat Man. Looking for material for his next book, he immersed himself in the British Columbia bush for seven weeks, recording his observations and interviews in a series of diaries that became the widely lauded travel book Notes from the Century Before...read more

By Edward Hoagland

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9781553654285 | Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, March 1, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: By 1968, Edward Hoagland had successfully published three novels, including the award-winning Cat Man.

The Mountains of California

By Edward Hoagland (introduced by)

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9780143105251 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, March 25, 2008), cover price $15.00

Hoagland On Nature: Essays

Product Description: Edward Hoagland is not only one of the best writers of our time; he is also one of the keenest observers of nature and one of the most celebrated essayists. His subjects range from the natural history of owls to the delicious mystery of wolves (âHowling Back at the Wolvesâ); the demise of the red wolf (âLament the Red Wolvesâ); our relationship with dogs (âDogs, and the Tug of Lifeâ); the nature of a bear-stalker (âBears, Bears, Bearsâ); and the intricate workings of an old farmâs ecosystem...read more

By Edward Hoagland

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9781585746521 | Lyons Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: One of the most outstanding living American essayists offers his thoughts about a wide variety of 'naturalist' subjects, from the decline of the red wolf to the history of owls.

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9781592286348 | Lyons Pr, August 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Edward Hoagland is not only one of the best writers of our time; he is also one of the keenest observers of nature and one of the most celebrated essayists.

The Circle Home

An aging boxer who has sacrificed everything on the alter of his sport re-examines his life during the 1950s as he moves through a series of last stands in the ring, trying to preserve his sense of self in the only profession he has ever known. Reprint.

By Edward Hoagland

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9781585744800 | Reprint edition (Lyons Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An aging boxer who has sacrificed everything on the alter of his sport re-examines his life during the 1950s as he moves through a series of last stands in the ring, trying to preserve his sense of self in the only profession he has ever known.

Cat Man

A smart young man joins the circus to make money and finds himself taming the big cats, a dangerous but ultimately rewarding job that places him in the company of a fascinating coterie of circus folk. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Edward Hoagland

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9781585748617 | Reprint edition (Lyons Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A smart young man joins the circus to make money and finds himself taming the big cats, a dangerous but ultimately rewarding job that places him in the company of a fascinating coterie of circus folk.

Seven Rivers West

Vaudeville entrepreneur Cecil Roop heads west in the 1880s in search of a grizzly cub for the show circuit on the East Coast and encounters a host of unusual characters who make his journey both interesting and difficult. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Edward Hoagland

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9780671607531 | Summit Books, September 1, 1986, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In the late 1870s, a small band--including Cecil, who hopes to capture a grizzly bear cub and train it for the vaudeville circuit, Charley; a trapper in search of gold; Sutton; and two Indian women--make their way westward into the American wilderness

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9781585748655 | Reprint edition (Lyons Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Vaudeville entrepreneur Cecil Roop heads west in the 1880s in search of a grizzly cub for the show circuit on the East Coast and encounters a host of unusual characters who make his journey both interesting and difficult.

9780140102765 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: SEVEN RIVERS WEST chronicles the adventures of Cecil Roop, an easterner drawn to the West in the 1880s in search of a grizzly cub to bring back east to show on the Vaudeville circuit.

Step Right This Way: The Photographs of Edward J. Kelty

Product Description: Book by Barth, Myles; Kelty, Edward J.; Siegel, Alan

By Miles Barth, Edward Hoagland, Edward J. Kelty and Alan M. Siegel

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9781586637804 | Friedman/Fairfax Pub, April 1, 2003, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Book by Barth, Myles; Kelty, Edward J.

9780760737842 | Barnes & Noble, November 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Book by Kelty, Edward J.

Compass Points: How I Lived

A candid, literary memoir by the author of the critically acclaimed author of The Tugman's Passage describes his writing career, the growing blindness that transformed his life, causing an increasing dependence, isolation, and inertia, and the technology that restored his sight and the implications of that miracle in terms of his personal and professional worlds. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

By Edward Hoagland

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9780375402463 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author describes the growing blindness that transformed his life, causing an increasing dependence and isolation, and the technology that restored his sight and the implications of that miracle for his personal and professional lives.

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9780375702402 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 26, 2002), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A candid, literary memoir by the author of the critically acclaimed author of The Tugman's Passage describes his writing career, the growing blindness that transformed his life, causing an increasing dependence, isolation, and inertia, and the technology that restored his sight and the implications of that miracle in terms of his personal and professional worlds.

Shooting Blind: Photographs by the Visually Impaired

Product Description: Shooting Blind: Photographs by the Visually Impaired is the first large-scale project by the Seeing with Photography Collective, a group that has been active in New York City for over fifteen years. With sight impairments ranging from partial to complete blindness, SWP photographers use cameras to explore the world and better understand themselves, while creating hauntingly beautiful works of art...read more

By Hiuwai Chu (editor), Edward Hoagland and Seeing With Photography Collective (photographer)

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9780893819941 | 1 edition (Aperture, March 1, 2002), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Shooting Blind: Photographs by the Visually Impaired is the first large-scale project by the Seeing with Photography Collective, a group that has been active in New York City for over fifteen years.

Notes from the Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia

Product Description: In 1966 Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of northern British Columbia. His account of this trip, Notes from the Century Before, is one of the great travel books of our time. It depicts a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it and it highlights Edward Hoagland's extraordinary gifts for portraiture, from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and Indian guide...read more

By Edward Hoagland

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9780871564139 | Reissue edition (Sierra Club Books, March 1, 1995), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In 1966 Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of northern British Columbia.

9780865470774 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1982, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it.

Heart's Desire

By Edward Hoagland

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9781578050536 | Sierra Club Books, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.95

Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life

Product Description: Very few writers have explored the natural world with the distinctive flair and insight of Edward Hoagland. Now, in Tigers & Ice, he provides what might be his most compelling work yet. Edward Hoagland was legally blind for three years until surgery miraculously changed his life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Edward Hoagland

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9781558217423 | Lyons Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays revealing the excitement and splendor of the natural world by the author who had his sight surgically restored after being legally blind for three years

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9781585741823 | Lyons Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Very few writers have explored the natural world with the distinctive flair and insight of Edward Hoagland.

The Best American Essays 1999

A collection of outstanding essay writing from 1999 includes the likes of Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Mary Gordon, and Arthur Miller, among others. Simultaneous.

By Robert Atwan (editor) and Edward Hoagland (editor)

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9780395860540 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals

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9780395860557 | Mariner Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals

Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains

Product Description: "On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning," Thoreau wrote. J. Parker Huber is along for the climb, comparing what Thoreau say in his era to what we can see today.

By Edward Hoagland (introduced by), J. Parker Huber (editor) and Henry David Thoreau

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9780395947999 | Mariner Books, May 31, 1999, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: "On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning," Thoreau wrote.

Balancing Acts: Essays

Product Description: Part memoir, part travel guide, these twenty-five essays have breathtaking range, taking us from the Yukon to Yemen to Belize and beyond. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Edward Hoagland

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9780671746810 | Simon & Schuster, December 1, 1992, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Essays take the reader on a journey of discovery, from the jungles of Belize to the mountains of Yemen

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9781558217430 | Lyons Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Part memoir, part travel guide, these twenty-five essays have breathtaking range, taking us from the Yukon to Yemen to Belize and beyond.

9780671872359 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, October 1, 1993), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Essays take the reader on a journey of discovery, from the jungles of Belize to the mountains of Yemen

Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image

A collection of literary and historical writing and illustrations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century about America's great waterways ranges from Samuel Sewell's praise of the River Merrymak to Langston Hughes's 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers.' UP.

By Edward Hoagland (foreword by) and Peter C. Mancall (editor)

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9780801431050 | Cornell Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A collection of literary and historical writing and illustrations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century about America's great waterways ranges from Samuel Sewell's praise of the River Merrymak to Langston Hughes's 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers.

The Tugman's Passage

Product Description: Another great Hoagland journey -- from the adventures of New York City tugboatmen to Cairo.

By Edward Hoagland

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9780394522685, titled "Tugman's Passage" | Random House Inc, February 1, 1982, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: A collection of personal essays includes biographical studies, unusual travelogues, journalistic pieces, elegaic mood essays about the wilderness, and other examples of discursive writing

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9781558213692, titled "The Tugman's Passage" | Reprint edition (Lyons Pr, April 1, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Another great Hoagland journey -- from the adventures of New York City tugboatmen to Cairo.

9780140066852, titled "The Tugman's Passage" | Viking Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A collection of personal essays includes biographical studies, unusual travelogues, journalistic pieces, elegiac mood essays about the wilderness, and other examples of discursive writing

Red Wolves and Black Bears

Product Description: Another great Hoagland journey -- from the adventures of New York City tugboatmen to Cairo.

By Edward Hoagland

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9780394400914 | Random House Inc, April 1, 1976, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Nineteen essays by the acclaimed contemporary author present his memories and knowledge of life in American woods and cities

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9781558213715 | Reissue edition (Lyons Pr, April 1, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Another great Hoagland journey -- from the adventures of New York City tugboatmen to Cairo.

9780140066869 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Nineteen essays by the acclaimed contemporary author present his memories and knowledge of life in American woods and cities

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

Product Description: An unparalleled eye for detail presents electrifying images of life in the Sudan.

By Edward Hoagland

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9780394504186 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 1979), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: An acclaimed travel and nature writer recounts his experiences during four months in the Sudan, sharing his keen responses to the land itself and to the grinding poverty of the tiny towns

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9781558213708 | Lyons Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An unparalleled eye for detail presents electrifying images of life in the Sudan.

9780140095432 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1981, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: An acclaimed travel and nature writer recounts his experiences during four months in the Sudan, sharing his keen responses to the land itself and to the grinding poverty of the tiny towns

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