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100 1 $aFergus, Charles.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85073648
245 10 $aSummer at Little Lava :$ba season at the edge of the world /$cCharles Fergus.
246 30 $aSeason at the edge of the world
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNorth Point Press :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $a289 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aA memoir of a summer in Iceland.
520 $aIn Summer at Little Lava, Charles Fergus tells how he fixed up an abandoned house on the farm and spent a summer there with his wife and their young son - living day to day in great simplicity, without heat, electricity, running water, or other conveniences. Inspired by Henry Beston's classic book The Outermost House - about a year Beston spent living in a cottage on Cape Cod - Fergus sought a place at the outer limits of civilization, and on the coast of Iceland he found it.
520 8 $aAs it happened, there was a sudden death in his family - the cruel, pointless murder of his mother at her home in Pennsylvania: and so, in the twilit open spaces of Iceland, Fergus confronted his grief, in the midst of the country's abundant wildlife and distinctive geology, its history and mythology.
520 8 $aThe little house on the coast became a refuge as he sought to recover himself and the meaning of his life. "Little Lava was a place where I could pass the days in peace," he tells us, "where I could take the first steps into a future that, I hoped, would not be so dimmed with grief and pain."
651 0 $aIceland$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064015
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