Author: Janet LembkePublisher:
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Category : Swimming
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Skinny Dipping and Other Immersions in Water, Myth, and Being Human
Author: Janet LembkeVirgil's Georgics
Author: VirgilPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300119862
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A masterful new verse translation of one of the greatest nature poems ever written. Virgil's Georgics is a paean to the earth and all that grows and grazes there. It is an ancient work, yet one that speaks to our times as powerfully as it did to the poet's. This unmatched translation presents the poem in an American idiom that is elegant and sensitive to the meaning and rhythm of the original. Janet Lembke brings a faithful version of Virgil's celebratory poem to modern readers who are interested in classic literature and who relish reading about animals and gardens. The word georgics meansfarming. Virgil was born to a farming family, and his poem gives specific instructions to Italian farmers along with a passionate message to care for the land and for the crops and animals that it sustains. The Georgics is also a heartfelt cry for returning farmers and their families to land they had lost through a series of dispiriting political events. It is often considered the most technically accomplished and beautiful of all of Virgil's work.
Sibylline Sisters
Author: Fiona CoxPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199582963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Through an analysis of Virgil's presence in the work of contemporary women writers from North America, Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, this book identifies a new Virgil: one who speaks in female tones of the anxieties, exclusions pleasures and threats of the contemporary world.
We Were Always Free
Author: T. O. MaddenPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813923710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Like many other southern free Negro families originating in the colonial era (when many whites, women, as well as men were subject to servitude), the family of T. O. Madden, Jr., began with the birth in 1758 of his great-great-grandmother Sarah Madden. She is one of the two ancestors to whom he dedicates this book. Sarah's mother, Mary Madden, contributed the surname that endured. Mary Madden was an Irishwoman who had probably immigrated as a servant a few years before Sarah's birth. Although the myths of Virginia would make every colonial who was white into an aristocrat, Mary Madden, like most eighteenth-century Virginians, was indigent. But unlike many others, she was free. Of Sarah Madden's father, nothing is known. The legal definition of mixed-race children of blacks and whites had been settled in 1662, when the Virginia legislature enacted laws prohibiting interracial marriages and declaring that children followed the status of their mother. Such legislation made children like Sarah Madden free, but illegitimate.
Crossroads of the Natural World
Author: Tom EarnhardtPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146960700X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity of today. With varied topography and a climate that is simultaneously subtropical, temperate, and subarctic, he shows that North Carolina is a meeting place for living things more commonly found far to the north and south. Highlighting the ways in which the state is a unique ecological crossroads, Earnhardt's research, insightful writing, and stunning photography will both teach and inspire. Crossroads of the Natural World invites readers to engage a variety of topics, including the impacts of invasive species, the importance of forested buffers along our rivers, the role of naturalists, and the challenges facing the state in a time of climate change and sea-level rise. By sharing his own journey of more than sixty years, Earnhardt entices North Carolinians of every age to explore the natural diversity of our state.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1370
Book Description
The Virginia Quarterly Review
Author: Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes
Author: Jill B. GidmarkPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of American sea literature. Ranges from the earliest printed matter produced in the colonies to contemporary experiments in published prose, poetry, and drama.
Earth Works
Author: Jim DwyerPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Earth Works is the only comprehensive guide available to the best new and classic books about nature and the environment for adults and YAs. It provides descriptive entries for trade nonfiction and scholarly or technical books, and a significant number of fiction titles which are of interest to both the general public and specialists. Each chapter defines its scope, then identifies key books or authors, and refers to notable related works in other chapters.
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