Getting to Grey Owl
Journeys on Four Continents
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2015
Trinity University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-59534-261-4 (ISBN)
Trinity University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-59534-261-4 (ISBN)
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More than a dozen essays covering one man's journey across four continents as he reflects on the pleasures of the wandering life
Writer, teacher, and adventurer Kurt Caswell has spent his adult life canoeing, hiking, and pedaling his way toward a deeper understanding of our vast and varied world. Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents chronicles over twenty years of Caswell's travels as he buys a rug in Morocco, rides a riverboat in China, attends a bullfight in Spain, climbs four mountains in the United Kingdom, and backpacks a challenging route through Iceland's wild Hornstrandir Peninsula. Writing in the tradition of such visionary nomads as Hermann Hesse, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth, Caswell travels through wild and urban landscapes, as well as philosophical and ideological vistas, championing the pleasures of a wandering life. Far from the trappings of the everyday, he explores a range of ideas: the meaning of roads and pathways, the story of Cain and Abel, nomadic life and the evolution of the human animal, the role of agriculture in the making of the modern world, and the fragility of love.
Writer, teacher, and adventurer Kurt Caswell has spent his adult life canoeing, hiking, and pedaling his way toward a deeper understanding of our vast and varied world. Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents chronicles over twenty years of Caswell's travels as he buys a rug in Morocco, rides a riverboat in China, attends a bullfight in Spain, climbs four mountains in the United Kingdom, and backpacks a challenging route through Iceland's wild Hornstrandir Peninsula. Writing in the tradition of such visionary nomads as Hermann Hesse, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth, Caswell travels through wild and urban landscapes, as well as philosophical and ideological vistas, championing the pleasures of a wandering life. Far from the trappings of the everyday, he explores a range of ideas: the meaning of roads and pathways, the story of Cain and Abel, nomadic life and the evolution of the human animal, the role of agriculture in the making of the modern world, and the fragility of love.
Kurt Caswellis a writer and professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, where he teaches intensive field courses on writing and leadership. His books includeIceland Summer,Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog,Getting to Grey Owl: Journeys on Four Continents,In the Sun's House: My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation, andAn Inside Passage, which won the 2008 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize. His essays have appeared inISLE, Isotope, Matter, Ninth Letter, Orion, River Teeth, and theAmerican Literary Review. He lives in Lubbock, Texas.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.8.2015 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | San Antonio |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 368 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59534-261-3 / 1595342613 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59534-261-4 / 9781595342614 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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