African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

Travel

Hoagland, Edward

Africa

Penguin??Books

A collection of personal essays includes biographical studies, unusual travelogues, journalistic pieces, elegiac mood essays about the wilderness, and other examples of discursive writing

Tugman's Passage

Sports & Outdoors

Nineteen essays by the acclaimed contemporary author present his memories and knowledge of life in American woods and cities

Red Wolves and Black Bears

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

An acclaimed travel and nature writer recounts his experiences during four months in the Sudan, sharing his keen responses to the land itself and to the grinding poverty of the tiny towns

History

SEVEN RIVERS WEST chronicles the adventures of Cecil Roop, an easterner drawn to the West in the 1880s in search of a grizzly cub to bring back east to show on the Vaudeville circuit. During his quest--which evolves into a hunt for a bigfoot--he picks up eccentric companions: Sutton, a circus performer in search of gold; Charley, a wily old frontiersman; Roy, a one-armed, toothless gold hunter; Margaret, a serene Indian woman; and a pack of loyal dogs. Full of high drama, bear attacks, run-ins with displaced Indians, and set against the stunning backdrop of the natural wonders of the West at the turn of the century, this novel is at once a picaresque adventure and the exuberant story of an unprecedented quest.

Seven Rivers West (Contemporary American Fiction)

Contemporary

For nearly fifty years Edward Hoagland has proven himself to be, in the words of William Kittredge, "one of our basic writers"--a writer whose novels, essays, and travel books have demonstrated a "pungency, directness, and his special gift for finding joy in the most unexpected places" (Alfred Kazin). In Compass Points, Hoagland looks back over his life in an attempt to discern the fundamental directions in which he is traveling, and he tells a story that embraces some of the contradictions and complexities of human experience. It reflects with elegance Hoagland's intransigent honesty, his protean ardor, and, most important, his generosity. Here, family and friends, wives and lovers, mentors and fellow writers are given their due in a life's reckoning that is shrewd in observation, marvelously crafted, rapturous in its acceptance and appreciation. A pithy mix of family history and personal insight, Compass Points transforms one man's story into an American saga.

Compass Points : How I Lived

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Pantheon

In a luminous memoir of a life richly lived, one of America’s finest writers explores the themes that have shaped his life and work: the glories of the natural world, the lure of working for a circus and fighting forest fires, the afflictions of temporary blindness and blocked speech, and the enduring influence of literary friendships, including John Berryman’s, Edward Abbey’s, and his mentor, Archibald MacLeish. From his childhood in rural Connecticut to some of the earth’s last remaining wildernesses, Hoagland has traveled the world wielding his unusual gift for observation. In Compass Points he delivers an honest and lively accounting of his voyages through two marriages; the New York parties he attended as a precocious young writer; Vermont hippiedom and academia; his many vivid sojourns into Europe, Alaska, British Columbia, the Sudan; and, perhaps most unforgettably, his stint in the “Animal Department” of Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus fifty years ago. Leavened with Hoagland’s trademark humor and insight, Compass Points is an entertaining and moving account of the days and nights of one of our most eminent literary voices.

Compass Points: How I Lived

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing even as he chronicled it. Showcasing Hoagland’s extraordinary gifts for portraiture—his cast runs from salty prospector to trader, explorer, missionary, and indigenous guide—Notes from the Century Before is a breathtaking mix of anecdote, derring-do, and unparalleled elegy from one of the finest writers of our time.

Notes from the Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia (Modern Library Exploration)

Americas

Random House Publishing Group

Red Wolves & Black Bears

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Random House]

Walking the Dead Diamond River: Nineteen Essays

Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in gilt. Previous owner's embossment on the front free endpaper.

Walking the Dead Diamond River

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African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

Tugman's Passage

Red Wolves and Black Bears

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

Seven Rivers West (Contemporary American Fiction)

Compass Points : How I Lived

Compass Points: How I Lived

Notes from the Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia (Modern Library Exploration)

Red Wolves & Black Bears

Walking the Dead Diamond River