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19 produkter
Natural State
Essays on Texas
Häftad, 1994
216 kr
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In this remarkable collection of essays, Stephen Harrigan explores, with an unfailing depth of feeling, the human longing to feel at home in the world of nature. In vivid and convincing prose, he evokes the landscape of his home territory, Texas, and his own reactions, sometimes droll, sometimes …
Water and Light
A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef
Häftad, 1999
291 kr
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This evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992.
Aransas
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
251 kr
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A critically acclaimed debut novel first published in 1980, Aransas recounts a young man's attempt to find his place in the world as he navigates the moral dilemma of training an "exquisitely conscious being" to perform in a seaside dolphin circus.
Jacob's Well
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
251 kr
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Originally published in 1984, Stephen Harrigan's passionate, emotionally intense second novel takes readers deep into the mysterious passageways of a Central Texas aquifer—and of the human heart. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Big Wonderful Thing
A History of Texas
Inbunden, 2019
409 kr
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2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of …
Challenger Park
E-bok, 2006
91 kr
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From the author of the acclaimed and best-selling The Gates of the Alamo , a novel of extraordinary power about what it’s like, and what it means, to journey into space as one of today’s astronauts. At the novel’s center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving mother of …
Remember Ben Clayton
A novel
E-bok, 2011
96 kr
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From the author of the acclaimed best seller The Gates of the Alamo, a new novel that confirms and enlarges Stephen Harrigan’s reputation as a major voice in American fiction. Francis “Gil” Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition. But bad fortune and his own prideful spirit have driven him …
Gates of the Alamo
E-bok, 2001
270 kr
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A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo, an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history. With its vibrant, unexpected characters and its richness of authentic detail, The Gates of the Alamo is an unforgettable …
The Leopard Is Loose
A novel
Inbunden, 2022
358 kr
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The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fears For Grady McClarty, an …
Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2025
350 kr
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Friend of Mr. Lincoln
A novel
E-bok, 2016
228 kr
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The author of the best-selling The Gates of the Alamo now gives us a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of his life, the early Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity and his ethical bearings as he searched for the great destiny he believed to be …
Eye of the Mammoth
New and Selected Essays
Häftad, 2019
249 kr
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History-natural history, human history, and personal history-and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in …
Anchor in the Sea of Time
Essays
Inbunden, 2025
393 kr
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A new collection of essays grappling with identity and memory, from a master of the form.The author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Gates of the Alamo, the sweeping Texas history Big Wonderful Thing, and decades of incisive journalism, Stephen Harrigan is an adept writer skilled in …
