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The Sound of Mountain Water
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
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Bishop, California, United States
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About This Item
Usa: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Good hardcover with tight binding and clean pages, except for the previous owner's name on the front end page and on page 94. No dust jacket. Moderate wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. Cloth of the spine is rubbed along the edges. Small stain on the bottom leaf ends. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages .
Synopsis
The essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches in this volume were written over a period of twenty-five years, a time in which the West witnessed rapid changes to its cultural and natural heritage, and Wallace Stegner emerged as an important conservationist and novelist. This collection is divided into two sections: the first features eloquent sketches of the West's history and environment, directing our imagination to the sublime beauty of such places as San Juan and Glen Canyon; the concluding section examines the state of Western literature, of the mythical past versus the diminished present, and analyzes the difficulties facing any contemporary Western writer. The Sound of Mountain Water is both a hymn to the Western landscape, an affirmation of the hope embodied therein, and a careful investigation of the West's cultural and natural legacy.
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- Bookseller
- Spellbinder Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 670
- Title
- The Sound of Mountain Water
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Usa
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nature, Nature Writing, Water
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature;
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