Presents a collection of familiar essays. The author comes from the generation in which girls read books about horses, and boys, about dogs, and his prose is old-fashioned and marvellously clear. He is a meanderer, and Parades End celebrates the pa...Lasīt vairāk
One Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields. He wanders over hills and far awayto Caribbean and Canadabut he always returns to the local, to Connecticut and his...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2015, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621901860)
The essays in Sam Pickerings new collection sing with thoughtful observations on life, death, love, and literature. Whether attending a reunion at Sewanee, cruising the Caribbean, wandering the streets of Storrs, Connecticut, or rambling throug...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-May-2014, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Missouri Press, ISBN-13: 9780826220288)
A New York Times article once stated that the art of the essay as delivered by ( Sam) Pickering is the art of the front porch ramble. As Pickering himself puts it, Well, I have gotten considerably older, and humor has come to mean more...Lasīt vairāk
Alexander Smith stated that a good essayist needed an ability to discern the infinite suggestiveness of common things. Arthur Benson seconded the idea, saying an essayist needed a far-ranging curiosity. For three decades Sam Pickering has...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2011, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781611170382)
Sweeping in and out of real and imagined places, Dreamtime highlights the curious character of an unconventional teacher, writer, traveler, husband, and father as he takes stock of his multifaceted life. Sam Pickeringthe inspiration for the main cha...Lasīt vairāk
Sam Pickering spends six months roaming Australia and New Zealand, tramping landscapes pocked by sheep stations, art galleries and bakeries, and always libraries, their dusty shelves troves quick with life and literature....Lasīt vairāk
Essays describing meanderings that range from authors backyard to Canada and Australia, from the remnant of a salt water farm to fly-specked dinners, from running half-marathons to dozing through a hernia operation. Journeys is a collection...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Aug-2007, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781572335967)
Pickering (English, U. of Connecticut), who was the inspiration for the teacher in the movie Dead Poets Society, presents a collection of his essays drawn from literary journals such as Harvard Review, Missouri Review, and North Dakota Quarterly. Des...Lasīt vairāk
Ten witty, eloquent essays on literature, competition, curiosity, enthusiasm, and truth from the teacher who inspired The Dead Poets Society reveal the joys of teaching and the power of innovation over stale formalism. Reprint.Ten essays on literatu...Lasīt vairāk
Filled with hundreds of metaphors, axioms, and ideas, a brilliant adaptation of the classic fables includes The Fox and the Grapes, The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, and two hundred others. Reprint....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Mar-2004, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472113781)
Pickerings greatest themes, including nature, family, and living life to the fullest are captured in more than two dozen of the authors finest essays--including Still Life and Magic....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Mar-2004, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472113774)
Sam Pickering chronicles his year-long family trip to Australia in this travelogue that chronicles his experiences, including snorkeling at Turquoise Bay and bird watching. An unabashedly sensuous and vivid travelogue of the authors yea...Lasīt vairāk
Jessica Elzea Kogel, Sam M. Pickering Jr., Evgenya Shelobolina, Tim Chowns, Jun Yuan
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2002, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, ISBN-13: 9780873352246)
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Kaolin is a naturally occurring white clay that is used in a variety of commercial applications ranging from paper coating to brick making. Kaolin mining has developed into a significant industry. Each year, approximately 40 million metric tons of th...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2001, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781572331471)
Readers familiar with Sam Pickerings delightful essays will certainly hope that the title of his latest collection is not intended as prophecy. A true original, Pickering offers observation on everyday life that never fail to sparkle with wit, i...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Oct-1999, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781572330627)
These essays are saturated in Pickerings quirky, warm, amusing, and bemused sense of the world. Jay Parini Author of Robert Frost: A Life and Benjamins Crossing No matter where he finds himself, Sam Pickerings thoughts invariab...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-1998, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Ohio University Press, ISBN-13: 9780821412343)
Best known as the model for the teacher portrayed in the film, Dead Poets Society, the author presents his tenth book of essays, musing on such places as Nova Scotia and Tennessee and such subjects as nature and children. UP. ...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Feb-1998, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820319407)
Reading Pickering is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend, said Smithsonian magazine. Living to Prowl, Sam Pickerings ninth collection of essays, finds the acclaimed author walking familiar paths, taking time to enjoy...Lasīt vairāk
