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Imagined Places

Pearson, Michael
Imagined Places
Michael Pearson writes about his travels to places of literary import: Frost's Vermont, Faulkner's Mississippi, Flannery O'Connor's Georgia, Hemingway's Key West, Steinbeck's California, and Twain's Missouri.

CHF 28.50

Merrybegotten

Pearson, Fiona Williamson
Merrybegotten
Hard landscapes and hard work provide the background for this tapestry of life and death. Fatalism, joy and blind emotion play havoc with the harsh realities expected on these islands, sewn like diamonds across the waters north-east of mainland Scotland. Romance is chaperoned by economic necessity, constrained by the difficulties of travel, and released by the serendipitous accidents of mortality. Unremitting hope brightens the simple lives of...

CHF 30.90

Port Cities and Intruders

Pearson, Michael N.
Port Cities and Intruders
In "Port Cities and Intruders, " historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.

CHF 50.50

Dreaming of Columbus

Pearson, Michael
Dreaming of Columbus
A moving memoir, Dreaming of Columbus illuminates place as a force that shapes lives. Through recollection and reportage, Michael Pearson recreates the Bronx of the 1950s and 60s, the place of his youth, that "precisely known world, safe and claustrophobic, " an Irish Catholic culture filled with light and shadows.Pearson renders time and place vividly through his lyrical narrative voice and generous spirit toward his characters. In a work tha...

CHF 34.90

Spirit

Pearson, Dan
Spirit
Dan Pearson is one of the most important and influential landscape designers working today. At the heart of all his gardens lies an unshakeable theme - his reverence for the power and delicacy of nature: the spirit of the place. This personal collection of new writing, illustrated by his own photographs, explores the sources of inspiration behind Dan's work. It reveals his response to landscapes both natural and designed, and the people, plac...

CHF 33.90

mental_floss: The Book

Pearson, Will / Hattikudur, Mangesh
mental_floss: The Book
In the spirit of their bestselling book, "Condensed Knowledge", the geniuses at mental_floss are back with a trivia-packed book of funny, surprising, and entertainingly informative lists--timed to the 10th anniversary of the award-winning magazine. 320 pp.

CHF 21.90

The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills

Pearson, Joanna
The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills
Janice loves anthropology, and her observations help identify useful rules in the chaotic world of high school. But when a hot theater guy takes an interest in Janice, all her scientific certainties explode. Now, she's part of the culture that she's always observed. She'll learn how tough--and sweet--real participation and a real romance can be.

CHF 23.90