Book
The man made of words : essays, stories, passages
Record details
- ISBN: 0312155816
- ISBN: 9780312155810
- ISBN: 0312187424 (pbk)
- ISBN: 9780312187422 (pbk)
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Physical Description:
ix, 211 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Pt. 1. The man made of words. The arrow maker -- The native voice in American literature -- To save a great voice -- A first American views his land -- An American land ethic -- On Indian-white relations : a point of view -- The morality of Indian hating ; Afterword -- The centaur complex -- A divine blindness : the place of words in a state of grace -- The American West and the burden of belief -- pt. 2. Essays in place. Sacred places -- Revisiting sacred ground -- Navajo place names -- Sacred images -- Zagorsk : to the spiritual center of Russia -- On Bavarian byways -- Granada : a vision of the unforeseen -- New Mexico : passage into legend -- The homestead on Rainy Mountain Creek -- pt. 3. The storyteller and his art. When the stars fell -- The Indian dog -- The photograph -- An encounter in Greenland -- A turning point -- Quincy Tahoma -- Jay Silverheels -- One morning in Oklahoma -- I wonder what will happen to the land -- The toll road -- Graceful and at ease -- An element of piety -- Chopetl -- Teresita -- The head of a man -- The physicians of Trinidad -- The dark priest of Taos -- The octopus -- Dreaming in place. |
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Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at Northwest Indian College.
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- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | PS 3563 .O47 M66 | 253661 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | PS 3563 .O47 M66 | 272800 | Muck | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | PS 3563 .O47 M66 1997 | 254231 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | PS 3563 .O47 M66 1997 | 258675 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
| Lummi Library | PS 3563 .O47 M66 1997 | 258676 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |