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Using mystical and magical vignettes peopled by characters who must rediscover the wisdom and spiritual strength found in nature, the author presents the natural world as a responsive, emotional being and a sacred place--offering those attuned to its tempo the grace and hope needed to carry on. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Hardcover:
9780679434535 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Twelve stories include those of a dying woman who finds self-expression, a botanist who must learn a lesson from his young daughter, and an anthopologist whose efforts to understand an aboriginal people seem to create a barrier to understanding them
Paperback:
9781400075126 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Twelve stories on man and nature.
9780380724826 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, September 1, 1995), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A collection of twelve short stories includes the adventures of a scientist who sees wild animals in empty urban spaces, a gravely ill woman who weaves her desires into a luminous cloth, and an anthropologist who is shocked by aboriginal violence.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781565113831 | Abridged edition (Highbridge Co, June 1, 2000), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Twelve stories include those of a dying woman who finds self-expression, a botanist who must learn a lesson from his young daughter, and an anthopologist whose efforts to understand an aboriginal people seem to create a barrier to understanding them.
9780939643653 | Northsound Music Group Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopezâthe National Book Awardâwinning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writersâevokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature.
The National Book Award winner pens this surprising collection of short fiction about a twentieth-century man's obsession with recently uncovered love letters from the seventeenth century and a man's encounter with a young deaf girl that transforms his ideas of pity. Reprint. 30,000 first printing
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Hardcover:
9780679434559 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction tells the stories of a twentieth-century man's obsession with recently uncovered love letters from the seventeenth century and a man's encounter with a young deaf girl that transforms his ideas of pity.
Paperback:
9780679754480 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 2001), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The National Book Award winner pens this surprising collection of short fiction about a twentieth-century man's obsession with recently uncovered love letters from the seventeenth century and a man's encounter with a young deaf girl that transforms his ideas of pity.
A collection of short fiction by the National Book Award winner includes a story about a twentieth-century man's obsession with recently uncovered love letters from the seventeenth century, as well as a piece on a man's encounter with a young deaf girl that transforms his ideas of pity. Read by the author.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781565114036 | Highbridge Co, October 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction tells the stories of a twentieth-century man's obsession with recently uncovered love letters from the seventeenth century and a man's encounter with a young deaf girl that transforms his ideas of pity.
From the American Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams comes a timeless, intoxicating collection of evocative stories. In these exquisite tales, an explorer goes mad when faced with the disappearance of a river; blue herons descend upon Manhattan; a lonely desert hermit clears a path for a secret celestial wind; and more. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780684168173 | Scribner, March 1, 1981, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: From the American Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams comes a timeless, intoxicating collection of evocative stories.
Paperback:
9780679781417 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $11.95
9780380719372 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, January 1, 1993), cover price $8.00 | About this edition: From the American Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams comes a timeless, intoxicating collection of evocative stories.
Hardcover:
9780820320847 | Limited edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 1998), cover price $100.00
9780820320045 | Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Presents a moving exploration, featuring powerful woodcut illustrations, of the emotional turmoil, moral compassion, and human guilt that drives the author to habitually remove dead animals from the road in order to find honor and expiation in the face of the world's unconcern.
Hardcover:
9780820319278 | Univ of Georgia Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A young man who feels a connection with wolverines through his dreams meets an older man who brings him to the Ruby Mountains where wolverines have a spiritual stronghold, and here the youngster experiences the power of animals and his place in nature
Hardcover:
9780813117423 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, June 18, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Argues that the Spanish discovery of the Americas led to the presumption that one is due wealth from the territory, an attitude also common among English-speaking settlers, and advocates a rediscovery of the land as a home
Paperback:
9780679740995 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1992), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Argues that the Spanish discovery of the Americas led to the presumption that one is due wealth from the territory, an attitude also common among English-speaking settlers, and advocates a rediscovery of the land as a home
Product Description: Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, River Notes and Desert Notes. From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools; to desert springs, birds and wind, and rattlesnakes ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780380711109 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, August 1, 1990), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Here, for the first time in one volume, are two of Lopez's masterpieces, River Notes and Desert Notes.
Hardcover:
9780847811205 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, December 1, 1989, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A photographic essay on the archipelago that was the genesis for Darwin's theory
Paperback:
9780380538195 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, July 1, 1983), cover price $2.95
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9780380525140 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, November 1, 1980), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: An acclaimed nature writer evokes and celebrates the forces, settings, rituals, movements, and imperatives of a river, as it calls us back to unity with the natural world
Hardcover:
9780836206616 | New edition (Andrews McMeel Pub, June 1, 1976), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A free-lance writer and photographer invites the reader to walk with him through the desert where life is clear and elemental
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