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Publisher
Notting Hill Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk on a rhythm for their lines and the novelists who put their characters on a path. [This volume] rounds up the most memorable walker-writers from the 1300s to the modern day, from country hikers to urban strollers, from the rationalists to the truly outlandish. All of them analyse our need to put one foot in front of the other."--Back cover.
91) The democratic spirit: a collection of American writings from the earliest times to the present day
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1941
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Today, "simple living" is a rallying cry for anti-consumerists, environmentalists, and anyone concerned with humanity's effect on the planet. But what is so revolutionary about a simple life? And why are we so fascinated with simplicity today? A Philosophy of Simple Living charts the ideas, motivations, and practices of simplicity from antiquity to the present day. Bringing together an array of people, practices, and movements, from Henry David Thoreau...
Author
Pub. Date
1843
Language
English
Description
Papers include: ms. book of poems, with revisions and annotations, 1843-1875; mss. of Channing's autobiographical works Leviticus ([early 1850's]) and Major Leviticus ([not before 1854/1855]); two sewn booklets of lectures on "Society" ([delivered before Concord Lyceum in 1858?]); ms. draft of Chapter 14 of Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (possibly also unpublished installment no. 9 of series for Commonwealth begun in 1863); undated ms. copy of "Sleepy...
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Beginning with Walt Whitman singing hymns at a wounded soldier's bedside during the Civil War, this surprising and vivid anthology ranges straight through to the twenty-first century to end with Francine Prose crying tears of complicated joy at the sight of Whitman's words in Zuccotti Park during the brief days of the Occupy movement. The first anthology of its kind, Radiant Truths gathers an exquisite selection of writings by both well-known and...
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: In the first anthology to survey the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman to the present, Gay American Autobiography draws excerpts from letters, journals, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies to provide examples of the best life writing over the last century and a half. Volume editor David Bergman guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Even in this age of extreme sports and made-for-TV survival games, there still exist places on earth where the most intrepid among us can plunge into truly unknown territory. The acclaimed adventure writer Peter Stark had waited all his life for just such an opportunity. But when he was invited to Africa to join a small expedition kayaking down Mozambique's Lugenda River, he balked. The 750-kilometer river course was largely uncharted-dotted with...
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