Book of Migrations

Zusatztext “Truly exceptional! a paradise for readers.”— Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Book of Migrations, A Field Guide to Getting Lost , the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built In Hell . A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times . She lives in San Francisco. Klappentext A fascinating mixture of walking journal, family memoir and transatlantic history. Updated new edition. Zusammenfassung Portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion! colonization! emigration! nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West! this title carves a route through Ireland's history! literature and landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Solnit, Solnit Rebecca
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2011
• EAN: 9781844677085
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-708-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; European History, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, TRAVEL / Europe / Ireland, Travel writing, Ireland, British & Irish history