Blue Meridian

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781101663158

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Blue Meridian by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise National Book Award-winning author Peter Matthiessen takes readers on an expedition to find the most dangerous predator on Earth—the legendary great white shark. On a trek that lasts 17 months and takes him from the Caribbean to the whaling grounds off South Africa, and across the Indian Ocean to the South Australian coast, Matthiessen describes the awesome experience of swimming in open water among hundreds of sharks; the beauties of strange seas and landscapes; and the camaraderie, tension, humor, and frustrations that develop when people continually risking their lives dwell in close proximity day after day. Filled with acute observations of natural history in exotic areas around the world, Blue Meridian records a harrowing account of one of the great adventures of our time. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1451603096

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Next American Nation by Michael Lind Pdf

Are we now, or have we ever been, a nation? As this century comes to a close, debates over immigration policy, racial preferences, and multiculturalism challenge the consensus that formerly grounded our national culture. The question of our national identity is as urgent as it has ever been in our history. Is our society disintegrating into a collection of separate ethnic enclaves, or is there a way that we can forge a coherent, unified identity as we enter the 21st century? In this "marvelously written, wide-ranging and thought-provoking"* book, Michael Lind provides a comprehensive revisionist view of the American past and offers a concrete proposal for nation-building reforms to strengthen the American future. He shows that the forces of nationalism and the ideal of a trans-racial melting pot need not be in conflict with each other, and he provides a practical agenda for a liberal nationalist revolution that would combine a new color-blind liberalism in civil rights with practical measures for reducing class-based barriers to racial integration. A stimulating critique of every kind of orthodox opinion as well as a vision of a new "Trans-American" majority, The Next American Nation may forever change the way we think and talk about American identity. *New York Newsday

Author : Nicholas Monk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136636066

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Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy by Nicholas Monk Pdf

This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different "angle" on the work, but setting him within a broader literary and artistic context. Such an approach offers a view of McCarthy that is strikingly different to previous collections that have dealt with the work in an almost exclusively "single author" and/or "single genre" mode. McCarthy’s novels are increasingly regarded as amongst the most rich, the most complex, and the most insightful of all recent literary responses to prevailing conditions in both the USA and beyond, and this collection recognizes the intertextual and interdisciplinary nature of his work. Contributors draw back the curtain on some of McCarthy’s literary ancestors, revealing and analyzing some of the fiction’s key contemporary intertexts, and showing a complex and previously underestimated hinterland of influence. In addition, they look beyond the novel both to other genres in McCarthy’s oeuvre, and to the way these genres have influenced McCarthy’s writing.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307762528

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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Pdf

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2016 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Ship registers
ISBN : OSU:32435027129634

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Underwater exploration
ISBN : 1860460437

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Blue Meridian by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

AMENDED ENTRY. Previously announced on ISBN 0002730111, weekly list no. 24, dated 17th June, 1994. Account of an expedition to report on the phenomena of the great white shark

Author : Robert B. Jones,Margot Toomer Latimer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469616414

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The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer by Robert B. Jones,Margot Toomer Latimer Pdf

This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane. The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness. The book is divided into sections reflecting four distinct periods of creativity in Toomer's career. The Aesthetic period includes Imagist, Symbolist, and other experimental pieces, such as "Five Vignettes," while "Georgia Dusk" and the newly discovered poem "Tell Me" come from Toomer' s Ancestral Consciousness period in the early 1920s. "The Blue Meridian" and other Objective Consciousness poems reveal the influence of idealist philosopher Georges Gurdjieff. Among the works of this period the editor presents a group of local color poems picturing the landscape of the American Southwest, including "Imprint for Rio Grande." "It Is Everywhere," another newly discovered poem, celebrates America and democratic idealism. The Quaker religious philosophy of Toomer's final years is demonstrated in such Christian Existential works as "They Are Not Missed" and "To Gurdjieff Dying." Robert Jones's clear and comprehensive introduction examines the major poems in this volume and serves as a guide through the stages of Toomer's evolution as an artist and thinker. The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer will prove essential to Toomer's admirers as well as to scholars and students of modern poetry, Afro-American literature, and American studies.

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UCLA:31158009068668

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by United States. Coast Guard Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : African Americans
ISBN : WISC:89058603093

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Contributions to Black Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780826356383

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A Drama of the Southwest by Jean Toomer Pdf

This book, a critical edition of a previously unpublished 1935 manuscript, makes A Drama of the Southwest available to readers for the first time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UVA:X001184195

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Contributions in Black Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oceans and Atmosphere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Fishery law and legislation
ISBN : UOM:39015078093062

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Interim Fisheries Zone Extension and Management Act of 1973 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oceans and Atmosphere Pdf

Author : Methodist Episcopal Church. Board of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89077107779

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Report of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church to the Annual Conferences of ... by Methodist Episcopal Church. Board of Education Pdf

Author : Thomas N. Sherratt,David M. Wilkinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191037542

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Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution by Thomas N. Sherratt,David M. Wilkinson Pdf

Why do we age? Why cooperate? Why do so many species engage in sex? Why do the tropics have so many species? When did humans start to affect world climate? This book provides an introduction to a range of fundamental questions that have taxed evolutionary biologists and ecologists for decades. Some of the phenomena discussed are, on first reflection, simply puzzling to understand from an evolutionary perspective, whilst others have direct implications for the future of the planet. All of the questions posed have at least a partial solution, all have seen exciting breakthroughs in recent years, yet many of the explanations continue to be hotly debated. Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution is a curiosity-driven book, written in an accessible way so as to appeal to a broad audience. It is very deliberately not a formal text book, but something designed to transmit the excitement and breadth of the field by discussing a number of major questions in ecology and evolution and how they have been answered. This is a book aimed at informing and inspiring anybody with an interest in ecology and evolution. It reveals to the reader the immense scope of the field, its fundamental importance, and the exciting breakthroughs that have been made in recent years.

Author : Hugh Ruppersburg,John C. Inscoe
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820343006

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The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature by Hugh Ruppersburg,John C. Inscoe Pdf

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker. This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetical order by author, the entries discuss each author's life and work, contributions to Georgia history and culture, and relevance to wider currents in regional and national literature. Lists of recommended readings supplement most entries. Especially important Georgia books have their own entries: works of social significance such as Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, international publishing sensations like Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, and crowning artistic achievements including Jean Toomer's Cane. The literary culture of the state is also covered, with information on the Georgia Review and other journals; the Georgia Center for the Book, which promotes authors and reading; and the Townsend Prize, given in recognition of the year's best fiction. This is an essential volume for readers who want both to celebrate and learn more about Georgia's literary heritage.