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Literary Outlaw #29
Unready To Wear
Av Kurt Vonnegut, Kevin G Summers m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
172 kr
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Myself and Strangers
A Memoir of Apprenticeship
Av John Graves
Häftad, 2005
289 kr
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In Myself and Strangers, John Graves, the highly regarded author of Goodbye to a River and other classic works, recalls the decade-long apprenticeship in which he found his voice as a writer. He recounts his wanderings from Texas to Mexico, New York, and Spain, where, like Hemingway, he hoped to …
John Graves Reader
Av John Graves
Häftad, 1996
445 kr
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Since the publication of his haunting, elegiac Goodbye to a River in 1960, John Graves has become one of Texas' most beloved writers, whose circle of loyal readers extends far beyond the borders of his home state. A "regional" writer only by virtue of his gift for vividly evoking the spirit of the …
Goodbye to a River
A Narrative
Av John Graves
E-bok, 2010
224 kr
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In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged …
History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York
Comprehending an Historical and Descriptive View of the Ancient and Present State of Each Parish Within the Wapontake of Langbargh; the Soil, Produce, and Natural Curiosities; With the O
Av John Graves
Inbunden, 2022
499 kr
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History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York
Comprehending an Historical and Descriptive View of the Ancient and Present State of Each Parish Within the Wapontake of Langbargh; the Soil, Produce, and Natural Curiosities; With the O
Av John Graves
Häftad, 2022
370 kr
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Tunas and Billfishes of the World
Av Bruce Collette, John Graves
Inbunden, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
896 kr
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The definitive resource on tunas and billfishes from the world's top authorities.Tunas and billfishes are peak predators of the oceans. Admired by scientists and naturalists for their speed, grace, unique physiology, and diversity, they are important both ecologically and socioeconomically. Vital …
Hard Scrabble
Observations on a Patch of Land
Av John Graves
Häftad, 2016
232 kr
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“A kind of homemade book-imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It’s a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Notebook.” -Edward Hoagland, New York Times Book Review“His subjects are trees …
From a Limestone Ledge
Some Essays and Other Ruminations About Country Life in Texas
Av John Graves
Häftad, 2016
232 kr
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“Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas.” -New Yorker“Graves writes eloquently about a countryman’s concerns. There's not a false note in the book.” -Boston Globe“Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves’s native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits and …
My Dogs and Guns
Av John Graves
E-bok, 2007
173 kr
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"Blue and Some Other Dogs" is a brilliant memoir about Graves'' Basque-Australian sheep dog. "Guns of a Lifetime" tells the stories related to the guns this octogenarian Texan has owned, beginning with a "rusted and cylinderless" revolver. "So here are the stories," Graves writes. "They are not all …
Literary Outlaw #18
The Ghosts of Giants
Av Derek P Gilbert, John Graves m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
172 kr
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Texas Rivers
Av John Graves
Inbunden, 2002
524 kr
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In Goodbye to a River, John Graves defined what it means to know a river-as a real place, as a landscape of memory and imagination, and as "a piece of country, [that] hunted and fished and roamed over, felt and remembered, can be company enough." Readers who've taken the canoe trip down the Brazos …
Town and Country
Race Relations in an Urban-Rural Context, Arkansas, 1865-1905
Av John Graves
Häftad, 1990
366 kr
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A thoroughly researched and extensively documented look at race relations in Arkansas druing the forty years after the Civil War, Town and Country focuses on the gradual adjustment of black and white Arkansans to the new status of the freedman, in both society and law, after generations of …
