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Item Details
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THE GREAT CHAIN OF LIFE
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By: |
Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (Illus), Patricia Hampl |
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Paperback |
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£16.95 |
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£16.44 |
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ISBN 10: |
1587298201 |
ISBN 13: |
9781587298202 |
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Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 July, 2009 |
Series: |
Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction |
Pages: |
244 |
Description: |
Focuses on one of the great questions of the ages: 'What am I?' |
Synopsis: |
Originally published in 1956, "The Great Chain of Life" brings a humanist's keen eye and ear to one of the great questions of the ages: 'What am I?' A scholar of literature and theater, toward the end of his career Joseph Wood Krutch turned to the study of the natural world. Bringing his keen intellect to bear on the places around him, Krutch crafted some of the most memorable and important works of nature writing extant. Whether anticipating the arguments of biologists who now ascribe high levels of cognition to the so-called lower animals, recognizing the importance of nature for a well-lived life, or seeing nature as an elaborately interconnected, interdependent network, Krutch's seminal work contains lessons just as resonant today as they were when the book was first written. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful woodcuts by Paul Landacre, an all-but-lost yet important Los Angeles artist whom Rockwell Kent called 'the best American wood engraver working,' "The Great Chain of Life" will be cherished by new generations of readers. |
Illustrations: |
24 woodcuts |
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US |
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University of Iowa Press |
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Returnable |
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