Kirst, H.H. ( Hans Hellmut ) Translated from the German by Robert Kee):THE RETURN OF GUNNER ASCH. >>> ENGLISH Language Edition
- Erstausgabe 2016, ISBN: 9780515040876
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University of Iowa Press, 2003. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! MILD WEAR ON DUSTJACKET, A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS, NO MARKS IN TEXT. Description: [Fauna and Flora, Earth and … Mehr…
University of Iowa Press, 2003. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! MILD WEAR ON DUSTJACKET, A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS, NO MARKS IN TEXT. Description: [Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky] is, in fact, the most intelligent, thoughtful, original, challenging, and highly entertaining work of nature writing since Barry Lopez's Artic Dreams. . . . It is her broad scope of contemplation, combined with her fiercely beautiful and detailed renderings of passion, natural and human, that give Trudy Dittmar's first but fully mature book its remarkable originality and considerable power. --Robert Finch, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewHonest self-scrutiny is irresistible, especially when told with a knack for diction of place, as this author demonstrates on every page. She is both of the landscape and an informed observer of it, willing to examine her conflicts between the experiences that play in her imagination and the scientific knowledge she's gleaned through training and reading. --The Bloomsbury ReviewTrudy Dittmar is an elegant stylist and an acute observer. She's read everything there is to read about the physics of rainbows, the habits of the porcupine, the winter survival skills of the moose and the orbits of the planets, but even her learning is outdistanced by her patient powers of looking, smelling, hearing, touching and tasting. Her originality arises out of this patience. And, magically, she is able to read into and out of the rich, endangered natural world an Emersonian understanding of self. This is at once the most objective and subjective book I have ever read. --Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own StoryDittmar writes about life with the precision of a scientist and the introspective lyricism of a poet, illuminating for us those parts of the world we barely remember to notice...from the complex emotional lives of cows and pronghorns to the dazzling leaves of a silver maple to the teeming hidden pools of bright salamanders. Reading this book is like finding a geode in a stream bed--crack it open and it sparkleso--Jo Ann Beard Dittmar, who won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer' Award in 2000 and whose writings have appeared in numerous publications . . . provides a fascinating look at natural and personal history in these ten essays on animals, plants, and other natural phenomena. . . . An excellent choice for both public and academic libraries. --Library JournalIn essays with settings that range from the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, to the mountain town of Leadville, Colorado, to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Trudy Dittmar weaves personal experience with diverse threads of subject matter to create unexpected connections between human nature and nature at large. Life stories, elegantly combined with mindful observations of animals, plants, landscape and the skies, theories in natural science, environmental considerations, and touches of art criticism and popular culture, offer insights into the linked analogies of nature and soul. A glacial pond teeming with salamanders in arrested development is cause for reflection on the limits of a life that knows only bounty. The hot blue lights of celestial phenomena are a metaphor for fast, flashy men--he loves of a life--and a romantic career is interpreted. Watching a pronghorn buck battling for, and ultimately losing, his harem leads to a meditation on a kind of immortality.Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky is testimony to the bearing and consequence of nature in one life, and to the richness of understanding it can bring to all human lives.Trudy Dittmar was born and raised in New Jersey farm country. In addition to holding an MA in English literature from the University of Chicago, she is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA program in writing and the founder and former director of a writing program at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey. Her work has appeared in such publications as The Norton Book of Nature Writing, Pushcart XXI, Georgia Review, and Orion. She divides her time between her family home in New Jersey and her cabin in Wyoming., University of Iowa Press, 2003, 3, Country Life Ltd, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Author has been watching various kinds of wildfowl which live either as residents or migrants in the British Isles.He also used to spend winter months looking for geese and ducks., Country Life Ltd, 1941, 3, Berlin, Germany 1932.In a time of political unrest and strife, one man finds the courage to fight back...Dr. Wilhelm "Q" Quedlin, chemical engineer and inventor, lives for his science. A woman is not in his plansnor is it to be accused of industrial espionage.But things get worse from there.Watching Hitler's rise to power spurs his desire to avoid yet another war that will completely destroy his beloved country. Q makes the conscious decision to fight against what he knows is wrong, even if working against the Nazis could mean certain death for him and anyone he loves.Hilde Dremmer has vowed to never love again. But after encountering Q, she wants to give love a second chance.When Q discloses his resistance plan, it's up to Hilde to choose between her protected life without him or the constant threat of torture if she supports him in his fight against injustice.She has witnessed enough of the Nazi government's violent acts to be appalled by the new political power, but will this be enough for an ordinary girl to do the extraordinary and stand beside the man she loves in a time of total desolation?This World War II spy story is based on the true events of one couple's struggle for happiness while battling a war against their own leaders.This book is a must-read for everyone wondering how an entire nation could slide from democracy to totalitarian dictatorship ultimately killing millions of "undesirables" whose only crime was having a different faith, skin color or political opinion., Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-09, 3, New York, NY, USA.: Pyramid Books, 1976. 254 pages. "The power of the German military machine is broken at last and the allies are pouring into the country. 'Lumpface' Lushke is anxious to avoid loss of life and orders his units to disband and go home. But there are still fanatical Nazi officers who order hopeless resistance to American tanks in order to ensure their own escapes. Gunner Asch, now a lieutenant, and his companions are hunting such a Nazi fanatic when they reach the little provincial town in which old Asch has his cafe. It's a scene of indescribable confusion as the Americans advance, the Nazis go underground, the opportunistscash in on profitable and ingenious rackets and Sergeant-Major Schulz, now a Captain, misinterprets every order he is given. But Herbert Asch remains cheerful, wily and resourceful amidst the chaos around him. And he watches the collapse of the Army he has served for so long evident relish as he looks forward to his own escape from the trials of military life." >> rubbing to covers; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Fourth Edition.. Soft Cover. Good to Very Good.. Illus. by GGA {Good Girl Art} PHOTO Cover.. Mass Market Paperback.., Pyramid Books, 1976, 2.75<
