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American Garden Design: An Anthology of Ideas That Shaped Our Landscapeby Diane Kostal McGuireISBN 0671799215 (0-671-79921-5)
Hardcover, Macmillan General Reference
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Antarcticaby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0606192700 (0-606-19270-0)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Arctic Dreamsby Barry Holstun LopezISBN 0613999266 (0-613-99926-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscapeby Barry LopezISBN 0684185784 (0-684-18578-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape'Book summary:Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published. [via]
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Australia: A Sense of Placeby Nick Rains, Sandy McCutcheonISBN 0670029017 (0-670-02901-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bad Landby Jonathan RabanISBN 0679759069 (0-679-75906-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bad Land'Book summary:A New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award
Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award
"No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. "
--Washington Post Book World
In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by railroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone bold or foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelessly inventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of them immigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In Bad Land, Jonathan Raban travels through the unforgiving country that was the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their story come miraculously alive.
In towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its name to Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in the landscape in between, Raban unearths a vanished episode of American history, with its own ruins, its own heroes and heroines, its own hopeful myths and bitter memories. Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West.
"Exceptional. . . . A beautifully told historical meditation. "
--Time
"Championship prose. . . . In fifty years don't be surprised if Bad Land is a landmark."
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Bad Land : An American Romanceby Jonathan RabanISBN 0679442545 (0-679-44254-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Beningfield's English Farmby Gordon BeningfieldISBN 0670811912 (0-670-81191-2)
Hardcover, Viking
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Bram Stoker's Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0671009877 (0-671-00987-7)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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By Pen & by Spade: An Anthology of Garden Writingby David WheelerISBN 0671742744 (0-671-74274-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Classics of Horror: Dracula/Frankenstein/2 Books in 1by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0681411635 (0-681-41163-5)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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Close Rangeby Annie ProulxISBN 0684852225 (0-684-85222-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Close Range: Wyoming Storiesby E. Annie ProulxISBN 0684867265 (0-684-86726-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Close Range: Wyoming Stories'Book summary:Pulitzer Prize-winner E. Annie Proulx forays through the underside of America's beloved Wild West in Close Range, a collection of stories about hardship and more hardship in Wyoming territory. Understanding that the West's infinite spaces tended to inspire neither introspection nor contemplation, but a violent and insatiable restlessness, Proulx's eight stories are dark reflections on the lives of a handful of characters striving to define themselves against the unforgiving landscapes. The three professional actors chosen to read the text give strong, resounding interpretations of the macabre tales. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --Natasha Senjanovich [via]
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The Countryside of Medieval Englandby Grenville Astill, Anne Grant, Brian WilliamsISBN 0631184422 (0-631-18442-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Creative Art of Pressed Flowersby Mary LawrenceISBN 0681409568 (0-681-40956-8)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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The Crystal Desertby David G. CampbellISBN 0618219218 (0-618-21921-8)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Death Comes for the Archbishopby Willa CatherISBN 0679728899 (0-679-72889-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Introduction by A. S. Byatt
Willa Cathers story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness of the Southwest is told with a spare but sensuous directness and profound artistry. When Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United States, what he finds is a vast desert region of red hills and tortured arroyos that is American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. Over the next four decades, Latour works gently and tirelessly to spread his faith and to build a soaring cathedral out of the local golden rockwhile contending with unforgiving terrain, derelict and sometimes rebellious priests, and his own loneliness.
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP shares a limitless, craggy beauty with the New Mexico landscape of desert, mountain, and canyon in which its central action takes place, and its evocations of that landscape and those who are drawn to it suggest why Cather is acknowledged without question as the most poetically exact chronicler of the American frontier. [via]More editions of Death Comes for the Archbishop:
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wildernessby Edward AbbeyISBN 0671695886 (0-671-69588-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness'Book summary:Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, the noted author's most enduring nonfiction work, is an account of Abbey's seasons as a ranger at Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah. Abbey reflects on the nature of the Colorado Plateau desert, on the condition of our remaining wilderness, and on the future of a civilization that cannot reconcile itself to living in the natural world. He also recounts adventures with scorpions and snakes, obstinate tourists and entrenched bureaucrats, and, most powerful of all, with his own mortality. Abbey's account of getting stranded in a rock pool down a side branch of the Grand Canyon is at once hilarious and terrifying. [via]
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Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architectureby Norman T. NewtonISBN 0674198700 (0-674-19870-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Barry MoserISBN 0688139213 (0-688-13921-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:This classic, spine-tingling gothic horror novel has become part of the Apple Classics line just in time to coincide with the all-new Dracula movie premiering in August 1992, starring Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, and Anthony Hopkins. Young Adult. [via]
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The English Landscape: Its Character and Diversityby Bill BrysonISBN 0670896802 (0-670-89680-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Eucalyptusby Murray BailISBN 0676971776 (0-676-97177-6)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eucalyptus'Book summary:"The idea that Holland's daughter was like the princess locked in the tower of a damp castle was of course false. After all, she was living on a property in western New South Wales."
Once upon a time, on a property in western New South Wales, a man named Holland plants hundreds of varieties of eucalyptus trees, then decrees that only the suitor who can name each and every one of them will be worthy to marry his beautiful daughter, Ellen. Men try and fail: there is the gentle schoolteacher who "had correctly named eighty-seven eucalypts and was doing it well when he went blank at the fatly handsome Jarrah up against the fence behind the house"; and the New Zealander who "came up against, and was defeated by, one of the many Stringybarks..." Old men, young men, commercial travelers, sheep-shearers--even a "smiling Chinaman ... all the way from Darwin." Not one is successful. Then, one day, along comes Mr. Roy Cave, a man renowned in the eucalyptus world, someone who "employed with lip-smacking relish the terms 'petiole,' 'inflorescences,' 'falacte' and 'lanceolate,' and he was also comfortable with 'sessile', 'fusiform' and 'conculorous.'"
Even in so wonderfully fractured a fairy tale as Murray Bail's Eucalyptus, it's obvious that Roy Cave is hardly the stuff romantic dreams are made of. Indeed, despite her father's warning to "beware of any man who deliberately tells a story," Ellen's Prince Charming turns out to be a mysterious young stranger who finds her wandering among her father's trees and spins her tale after tale, each one tied to a different kind of eucalypt. As the weeks go by, Mr. Cave continues to successfully identify every tree on the property, thus drawing ever closer to his prize. Meanwhile, Ellen's other suitor captures first her imagination and then her heart with stories of apprentice hairdressers who fall in love with plain-Jane heiresses; solicitors' daughters involved with married men; and lonely canary breeders who almost find happiness with spinster piano teachers. What all of these off-kilter stories have in common is a theme of missed opportunities, and lovers who realize too late that they were made for each other. Will Ellen, too, end up like one of these the sad-hearted heroines, or will her would-be lover find a way to thwart Mr. Cave's relentless victory march through the Eucalypts to claim her hand?
There is so much to love about Bail's novel that it's difficult to identify exactly which of its qualities make it such a complete delight. Is it Ellen's "speckled beauty ... so covered in small brown-black moles she attracted men, every sort of man"? Is it the detailed descriptions of the landscape? The way Bail uses them to comment on human nature, on the nature of storytelling and of language itself ("a paragraph is not so different from a paddock--similar shape, similar function")? Or is it the wacky charm of the Scheharezade-like suitor's urban tales? ("Still in the vicinity of low-height eucalypts he went on to mention, in a thoughtful voice, how in an outer suburb of Hobart an actuary with a well-known insurance company needed a stepladder to woo a widow who passed by his house every day.") Whatever the source of Bail's peculiar magic, Eucalyptus casts a spell that will carry readers from first page to last and leave them wishing for a thousand and one more stories just like it. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Fast Food Nationby Eric SchlosserISBN 0618130977 (0-618-13097-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fast Food Nation'Book summary:On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.
Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed [via]
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Garden Planning for the Small Propertyby Jack KramerISBN 0684125137 (0-684-12513-7)
Softcover, Scribner
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The Gardener's Catalogueby Tom Riker, Harvey RottenbergISBN 0688053270 (0-688-05327-0)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Gardening with Nature : How James van Sweden and Wolfgang Oehme Plant Slopes, Meadows, Outdoor Rooms, and Garden Screensby James Van Sweden, Wolfgang OehmeISBN 0679429476 (0-679-42947-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George FrazerISBN 0684826305 (0-684-82630-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Hardy Landscapesby Gordon BeningfieldISBN 0670832111 (0-670-83211-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Herbal Grove: A Celebration of the Beauty and Mystery of Treesby Mary Forsell, Tony CenicolaISBN 067940841X (0-679-40841-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Home from Nowhere : Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Centuryby James H. KunstlerISBN 0684811960 (0-684-81196-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home from Nowhere : Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century'Book summary:Through magazine articles and through his previous book, The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has become one of the foremost decriers of the blighted urban landscape of the United States. Now, in this new sequel to the earlier book, Kunstler moves from description to prescription. The villains, Kunstler says, are zoning laws, real estate taxes, modernist architecture, and, particularly, the automobile. The solutions include multi-use zoning districts, car-free urban cores, revised tax laws, Beaux-Arts design principles, and, in particular, the neo-traditionalist school of architecture and city planning known as "new urbanism." It's possible to disagree with some of Kunstler's conclusions--the hope that large numbers of commuters will give up their single-passenger vehicles for public transit downtown has been discredited in city after city--without abandoning his larger goal: a return to a saner urban geography and, with it, to a saner way of life. [via]
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Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Centuryby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0684837374 (0-684-83737-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century'Book summary:Through magazine articles and through his previous book, The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has become one of the foremost decriers of the blighted urban landscape of the United States. Now, in this new sequel to the earlier book, Kunstler moves from description to prescription. The villains, Kunstler says, are zoning laws, real estate taxes, modernist architecture, and, particularly, the automobile. The solutions include multi-use zoning districts, car-free urban cores, revised tax laws, Beaux-Arts design principles, and, in particular, the neo-traditionalist school of architecture and city planning known as "new urbanism." It's possible to disagree with some of Kunstler's conclusions--the hope that large numbers of commuters will give up their single-passenger vehicles for public transit downtown has been discredited in city after city--without abandoning his larger goal: a return to a saner urban geography and, with it, to a saner way of life. [via]
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The How and Why of Chinese Paintingby Diana KanISBN 0671608177 (0-671-60817-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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If You're Not from the Prairieby David BouchardISBN 0689801033 (0-689-80103-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Illustrated Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert K.G. TempleISBN 0684818507 (0-684-81850-7)
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While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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An Illustrated Guide to Pruningby Edward F. GilmanISBN 0585415803 (0-585-41580-3)
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The Iron Roadby Richard F. SnowISBN 0590075233 (0-590-07523-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Landscapes of the Civil Warby Constance SullivanISBN 0679441786 (0-679-44178-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 0679600760 (0-679-60076-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet produced." Published at the author's expense on July 4, 1855, Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice and style into American letters and gave expression to an optimistic, bombastic vision that took the nation as its subject. Unlike many other editions of Leaves of Grass, which reproduce various short, early versions, this Modern Library Paperback Classics "Death-bed" edition presents everything Whitman wrote in its final form, and includes newly commissioned notes. [via]
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Familiesby Walker Evans, James AgeeISBN 0618127496 (0-618-12749-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families'Book summary:Just what kind of book is Let Us Now Praise Famous Men? It contains many things: poems; confessional reveries; disquisitions on the proper way to listen to Beethoven; snippets of dialogue, both real and imagined; a lengthy response to a survey from the Partisan Review; exhaustive catalogs of furniture, clothing, objects, and smells. And then there are Walker Evans's famously stark portraits of depression-era sharecroppers--photographs that both stand apart from and reinforce James Agee's words.
Assigned to do a story for Fortune magazine about sharecroppers in the Deep South, Agee and Evans spent four weeks living with a poor white tenant family, winning the Burroughs's trust and immersing themselves in a sharecropper's daily existence. Given a first draft of the resulting article, the editors at Fortune quite understandably threw up their hands--as did several other editors who subsequently worked with a later book-length manuscript. The writing was contrary. It refused to accommodate itself to the reader, and at times it positively bristled with hostility. (What other book could take Marx as the epigraph and then announce: "These words are quoted here to mislead those who will be misled by them"?) Response to the book was puzzled or unfriendly, and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sputtered out of print only a few short years after its publication. It took the 1960s, and a vogue for social justice, to bring Agee's masterwork the audience it deserved.
Yet the book is far more interesting--aesthetically and morally--than the sort of guilty-liberal tract for which it is often mistaken. On an existential level, Agee's text is a deeply felt examination of what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. On a personal level, it is the painful, beautifully written portrait of one man's obsession. In its collaboration with Evans's photographs, the book is also a groundbreaking experiment in form. In the end, however, it is more than merely the sum of its parts. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is, quite simply, a book unlike any other, simmering with anger and beauty and mystery. --Mary Park [via]
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Lies Across America : What Our Historic Sites Get Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 0684870673 (0-684-87067-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies Across America : What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong'Book summary:Little seems to delight historian James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, more than picking apart the cherished myths of American history. Few Americans study history after high school--instead, Loewen writes, they turn to novels and Oliver Stone movies to learn about the past. And they turn to the landscape, to roadside historical markers, guidebooks, museums, and tours of battlefields, childhood homes, and massacre sites. If you were to trust those sources, Loewen suggests, you would learn, erroneously, that the first airplane flight took place not at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, but at Pittsburg, Texas. "It must be true--an impressive-looking Texas state historical marker says so!" Loewen chortles.
In these entertaining pages, Loewen takes a region-by-region tour of the United States, pointing out historical oddments as he travels. For example, a massacre of white pioneers by Indians commemorated in Almo, Idaho, never took place, Loewen continues; neither did many other such events. Indeed, he insists, "throughout the entire West between 1842 and 1859, of more than 400,000 pioneers crossing the plains, fewer than 400, or less than .1 percent, were killed by American Indians." And if you were to visit Helen Keller's Georgia birthplace, over which a Confederate flag flies, you would get the impression that Keller had been an unreconstructed daughter of the Old South, whereas she was in fact an early supporter of the NAACP. And so on.
After finishing Loewen's alternately angry and bemused exposé, readers will likely never trust a roadside historical marker or tour guide again--which may prompt them to turn to history books to check things out for themselves. As well they should. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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London's Lost Riverscape: A Photographic Panoramaby Chris Ellmers, Alex WernerISBN 0670812633 (0-670-81263-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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Low Maintenance Gardenby Graham RoseISBN 0670443492 (0-670-44349-2)
Softcover, Viking Press
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Martiansby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0613354206 (0-613-35420-6)
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Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Gardenby Emily Whaley, William P. BaldwinISBN 0684843870 (0-684-84387-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0679741879 (0-679-74187-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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My Mother's House and Sidoby Colette RossantISBN 0679601570 (0-679-60157-0)
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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 0679743626 (0-679-74362-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'O Pioneers!'Book summary:One of Americas greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novelthe first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by Americas Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants, as well as a story of how the land challenged them, changed them, and, in some cases, defeated them, Cathers novel is a uniquely American epic.
Alexandra Bergson, a young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her fathers farm and must transform it from raw prairie into a prosperous enterprise, is the first of Cathers great heroinesall of them women of strong will and an even stronger desire to overcome adversity and succeed. But the wild land itself is an equally important character in Cathers books, and her descriptions of it are so evocative, lush, and moving that they provoked writer Rebecca West to say of her: The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world almost as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.
Willa Cather, perhaps more than any other American writer, was able to re-create the real drama of the pioneers, capturing for later generations a time, a place, and a spirit that has become part of our national heritage.
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Open Road: Celebration of the American Highwayby Phil PattonISBN 0671639951 (0-671-63995-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Out of Africaby Isak DinesenISBN 0679600213 (0-679-60021-3)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of Africa'Book summary:In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few books on the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, 'I've got the name for our publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House.' Donald liked the idea, and Rockwell Kent said, 'That's a great name. I'll draw your trademark.' So, sitting at my desk, he took a piece of paper and in five minutes drew Random House, which has been our colophon ever since." Throughout the years, the mission of Random House has remained consistent: to publish books of the highest quality, at random. We are proud to continue this tradition today.
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Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grassby Isak DinesenISBN 0679724753 (0-679-72475-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Outer Darkby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0679728732 (0-679-72873-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The Owner-Built Homeby Ken KernISBN 0684142236 (0-684-14223-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Photographer's Handbookby John HedgecoeISBN 0679742042 (0-679-74204-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Poems of the Countrysideby Gordon BeningfieldISBN 0670817554 (0-670-81755-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, 1630-1660by James TurnerISBN 0674689305 (0-674-68930-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Red Marsby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 060608066X (0-606-08066-X)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Road from Coorainby Jill Ker ConwayISBN 0679724362 (0-679-72436-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Sense of Place: A Christian Theology of the Landby Geoffrey R. LilburneISBN 0687372003 (0-687-37200-3)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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The Shipping Newsby Annie ProulxISBN 0671510053 (0-671-51005-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shipping News'Book summary:In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. [via]
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Shirleyby Charlotte BrontëISBN 0679602755 (0-679-60275-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Simon and Schuster's Complete Guide to Plants and Flowersby Frances PerryISBN 0671222473 (0-671-22247-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Skyland: The Heart of the Shenandoah National Parkby George F. PollockISBN 0685650731 (0-685-65073-1)
Softcover, Virginia Book Co
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human Worldby David AbramISBN 0679776397 (0-679-77639-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World'Book summary:A stunningly original work of ecological philosophy documenting the historical and current effects of language on our perception of and interaction with nature. Utne Magazine recently voted Abram one of "The 100 People Who Will Change the World." And if this book is read as widely as it deserves, that prediction may come to pass. Very Highly Recommended. [via]
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To a Cabinby Dorothea Lange, Margaretta MitchellISBN 0670716286 (0-670-71628-6)
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Wanderlust : A History of Walkingby Rebecca SolnitISBN 0670882097 (0-670-88209-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Water Gardeningby Ken DruseISBN 0671846450 (0-671-84645-0)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference
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Waterlandby Graham SwiftISBN 0679309373 (0-679-30937-3)
Softcover, Vintage
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"Waterland, like the Hardy novels, carries with all else a profound knowledge of a people, a place, and their interweaving.... Swift tells his tale with wonderful contemporary verve and verbal felicity.... A fine and original work."--Los Angeles Times [via]More editions of Waterland:
The White Albumby Joan DidionISBN 0671601032 (0-671-60103-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Wilderness Plotsby Scott Russell SandersISBN 0688021476 (0-688-02147-6)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Diane Long HoevelerISBN 061808486X (0-618-08486-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Virginia Woolf said of Emily Brontë that her writing could "make the wind blow and the thunder roar," and so it does in Wuthering Heights. Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and the windswept moors that are the setting of their mythic love are as immediately stirring to the reader of today as they have been for every generation of readers since the novel was first published in 1847. With an introduction by Katherine Frank. [via]More editions of Wuthering Heights:
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