| Journeys Contributor(s): Pickering, Sam (Author) |
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ISBN: 1933896493 ISBN-13: 9781933896496 Publisher: Texas Review Press OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 820.9 |
| LCCN: 2010040354 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.52 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Cultural Region - Australian - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Journeys is a collection of essays in which Sam Pickering mulls traveling. He travels to Nova Scotia and New Zealand. He wanders the South and makes speeches in the Mid-West. He haunts libraries in hopes of stumbling across intriguing oddity. As he meanders he ponders teaching and the natural world, especially the green minutiae of this last. In several essays he explores the classroom. In others he explores matters medical, in them finding the staff of life and humor. Family and age are his closest companions, both bruising him at times but both making him smile. As he ages he wonders about his changing perception of Time, his thoughts bringing delight, however, not melancholy, as befits someone constitutionally happy. |