An Elemental Thing Paperback / softback
by Eliot Weinberger
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With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays.
With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in the mountains of New Guinea.
Among the thirty-five essays included are a poetic biography of the prophet Muhammad, which was praised by the London Times for its "great beauty and grace," and "The Stars," a reverie on what's up there that has already been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, and Maori.
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- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:17/05/2007
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- ISBN:9780811216944
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:17/05/2007
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- ISBN:9780811216944