Rebecca Solnit

Broschiertes Buch

A Book of Migrations

Some Passages in Ireland

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including a trilogy of atlases and the books The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper’s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books
• 2 New edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 131mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9781844677085
• ISBN-10: 1844677087
• Artikelnr.: 32848062