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In About This Life. Barry Lopez takes us on a literal and figurative journey across the terrain of autobiography, assembling essays of wisdom and insight. Here is far flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galapagos, enigmatic Bonaire); a naturalist's contention (Why does our society inevitably strip political power from people with intimate knowledge of the land - small-scale farmers.
Native Americans, Eskimos, cowboys?); and pure adventure (a dizzying series of around-the-world journeys with air freight - everything from penguins to pianos). And here, too, are seven exquisite memory pieces - hauntingly lyrical yet unsentimental recollections that represent Lopez's most personal work to date, and which will be read as classics of the personal essay for years to come.
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About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory
April 27, 1999, Vintage
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About This Life - Journeys On The Threshold Of Memory
1999, Vintage Books / Random House
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About this life: journeys on the threshold of memory
1999, Vintage Books/Random House
in English
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About this life: journeys on the threshold of memory
1998, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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"THE LAST DAY I spent on Bonaire, a Catholic Sunday, I drove most of the small Dutch island's few dirt tracks and undivided asphalt roads."
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