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1 online resource (421 pages) |
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Intro; Foreword by Nicholas Lemann; Part One: Music in the Desert; Morning Light; On the Edge; The Secret Life of the Beach; Going into the Desert; Isla del Padre; The Tiger Is God; The Bay; Swamp Thing; The Silver Kings; Part Two: Highways and Jungle Paths; The Roof of Eden; Feeling Flush; The Anger of Achilles; Rock and Sky; The Little Man's Road; My Igloo; A Secret Door; Part Three: The Shadow of History; The Temple of Destiny; The Man Nobody Knows; Comanche Midnight; Wolf House; The Last Days of David Crockett; Taking Care of Lonesome Dove; His Fostering Hand; The Eye of the Mammoth |
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A Troublous LifePart Four: Where Is My Home?; What Texas Means to Me; The Soul of Treaty Oak; Wish I Were There; The Eyesore; The Golden Age of Austin; Texanic!; Fade In, Fade Out; Where Is My Home?; Off Course; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
<P>History?natural history, human history, and personal history?and place are the cornerstones of <em>The Eye of the Mammoth</em>. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in "Off Course" a quest to learn all he can about his father, who died in a plane crash six months before he was born.</p><p>Harrigan's deceptively straightforward voice belies an intense curiosity about things that, by his own admission, may be "unknowable." Certainly, we are limited in what we can know about the inner life of George Washington, the last days of Davy Crockett, the motives of a caged tiger, or a father we never met, but Harrigan's gift?a gift that has also made him an award-winning novelist?is to bring readers closer to such things, to make them less remote, just as a cave painting in the title essay eerily transmits the living stare of a long-extinct mammoth.</p> |
| Local Note |
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Essays.
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Texas -- Miscellanea.
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essays. |
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History / Essays. |
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Literary Collections / American. |
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Essays. |
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Texas. |
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Electronic books.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Anthologies.
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Lemann, Nicholas.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harrigan, Stephen. Eye of the Mammoth : New and Selected Essays. Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2019 9781477320099 |
| ISBN |
1477320539 |
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9781477320532 (electronic bk.) |
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