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Sto caricando le informazioni... An Elemental Thingdi Eliot Weinberger
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The fabulous and awful breadth of humankind's beliefs and behaviours are found in these "essays." I borrowed the book from a friend and I'm thinking of buying it. It would be a great book to dip into from time to time for an immediate shift in perspective from the mundane to the wondrous. ( ) flabbergasted this guy is alive & not a 2000-year old wood spirit. It's hard to describe how good these essays are except to say that their author would seem to be a "friendly ghost," cataloging dream dictionaries of the chiapas, men and women named "chang" and what they did and failed to do, etc, like a very zen & precise people's almanac. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea. Among the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by thenbsp;London Timesnbsp;for its "great beauty and grace," and "The Stars," a reverie on what's up there that has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Maori. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)814.54Literature English (North America) American essays 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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