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“patrick wilcken”

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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss

    The Father of Modern Anthropology

    by Patrick Wilcken ...
    When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology, transforming it from the colonial-era study of “exotic” tribes to one consumed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tristes Tropiques

    by Claude Levi-Strauss ...
    Translated by John Weightman, Doreen Weightman ...
    "A magical masterpiece."-Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Collected Writings, 1950-1993

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  • An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

    by César Aira, Roberto Bolaño ...
    Translated by Chris Andrews ...
    An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he ... Read more

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  • Patagonia

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    by Chris Moss ...
    Series Book 8 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of place. A vast triangle at the southern tip of the New World, this region of barren steppes, soaring peaks and fierce winds was populated by small ... Read more

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  • The Traveller's Tree

    A Journey Through the Carribean Islands

    by Patrick Leigh Fermor ...
    In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, ... Read more

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  • The Naturalist on the River Amazons

    by Henry Walter Bates ...
    From Natural History Review, vol. iii. 1863. ... Read more

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  • Civilizations

    Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature

    by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ...
    In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization.To Fernández-Armesto, a civilization is "civilized in direct proportion to its distance, its ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: South America

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 353 - Mammoth Books
    Eating Dirt in Venezuela - Alexander von HumboldtGeographer, geologist, naturalist, anthropologist, physician and philosopher, Baron von Humboldt brought to exploration a greater range of enquiry than any contemporary. Also an indomitable traveller, particularly in the Orinoco/Amazon basin (1799-1804), he often invited danger but always in the cause of scientific observation. The interest of his ... Read more

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  • Backlands

    The Canudos Campaign

    by Euclides da Cunha ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Lowe ...
    An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literatureWritten by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of ... Read more

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    Landscape, violence and memory

    by Luke Stegemann ...
    A literary exploration of violence, memory, and landscape in Australia and Spain.In Amnesia Road, Luke Stegemann travels to the mulga plains of south-west Queensland and rural Andalusia, uncovering neglected histories and victims. He asks: what place do these forgotten people have in contemporary debates around history, nationality, guilt, and identity?Stegemann's journey is a compelling ... Read more

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  • Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent

    by Jason Wilson, Alexander Humboldt ...
    One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna of the 'new continent'. The first to draw and speculate on ... Read more

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