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Ansel Adams: A Biography by Mary Street Alinder
John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Richard Rhodes
The Beast God Forgot to Invent: Novellas by Jim Harrison
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TagsFirst Edition (157), Literature (59), American West (55), Classic (52), Short Stories (35), Poetry (21), Signed (18), Memoir (16), Biography (15) — see all tags
GroupsBook Care and Repair, Book Collectors, Historical Fiction, Travel and Exploration literature
Favorite authorsSherwood Anderson, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Ivan Doig, A. B. Guthrie, Jim Harrison, Paul Horgan, Washington Irving, Joseph Wood Krutch, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Herman Melville, Conrad Richter, Mari Sandoz, Wallace Stegner, John Steinbeck, George R. Stewart, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Thomas Wolfe (Shared favorites)
Favorite bookstoresTattered Cover Book Store - Highlands Ranch
About me If there was an 'Art Thing', Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School would be at the top of my list. His painting, 'The Oxbow' 1836 is a favorite and represented here in my profile.
About my library A collection in progress of mainly Western Americana, a lot of the old and some of the new, of which only a fraction I have read from front to back. ...its the joy of the find of something great, old and in wonderful condition...
"This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used." ~Henry Thoreau finding his inner voice; taken from a college paper written at Harvard entitled "The Commercial Spirit."
"Decayed literature makes the richest soils." - Henry Thoreau
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A 1929 First Edition copy of Dodsworth
by Sinclair Lewis
"As I was saying, your too American, Mrs. Dodsworth. Americans understand themselves less and are less understood by the world than any nation that's ever existed."
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1. Eat well, of course, avoiding the ninny diets and mincing cuisines that demonize appetite and make unthinkable a tasty snack of hog jowls. We’re all going to die. Might as well enjoy a little fat along the way. (In a 1971 “false memoir” called “Wolf,” written while Harrison was convalescing from a fall off a cliff, he suggested curing heartbreak by broiling a two- to three-pound porterhouse, eating it with your hands, followed by a hot bath in which you consume the best bourbon you can buy until the bottle is empty. Then sleep for a day. Ladies and gentlemen, this works.)
2. Pursue love and sex, no matter discrepancies of desire and age. Romance is worth the humbling. Doing it outdoors on stumps, in clearings and even swarmed by mosquitoes is particularly recommended.
3. Welcome animals, especially bears, ravens and wolves, into your waking and dream life. An acceptance of our common creaturedom is essential not just to the health of the planet but to our ordinary happiness. We are mere participants in natural cycles, not the kings of them.
4. Rather than lighting out for territory, we ought to try living in it.
5. And finally, love the detour. Take the longest route between two points, since the journey is the thing, a notion to which, contaminated by the Zen-fascist slogans of advertising (“just do it!”), we all pay lip service but few of us indulge.
posted by eugenegant at 6:36 pm (EST) on Feb 18, 2007
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posted by eugenegant at 9:00 am (EST) on Jan 17, 2007
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