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Eccentric islands :
travels real and imaginary / Bill Holm. - Minneapolis :
Milkweed ed., 2000. - 346 p. : maps ;
23 cm.
ISBN 1-57131-259-5
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DESCRIPTION : Eccentric
Islands is a literary expedition across the map to islands
both actual and imagined. Part traveler's journal, part philosophical
exploration, the book asks whether islands encourage eccentricity and
genius in humans, as scientists argue they do in the natural world.
Essayist Bill Holm journeys to
five physical islands : Iceland, Madagascar, Molokai, Isla
Mujeres, and Mallard Island in northern Minnesota. He also visits
islands of ideas, including the Necessary Island of the Imagination and
the whimsical piano island, located in the man-made lake under the
atrium-sky of an upscale hotel in the remote interior of China.
Writing with the mind-set of a
19th-century traveler, for whom the journey is as important as the
destination, Holm introduces wonderful characters and cultures.
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He was larger than life, a man of letters, a man of the prairie, a man
of the world. ” — Laurie Hertzel,
“ Described as "the Polar Bear of American Literature," the
celebrated poet from Minneota is dead at age 65 ”, Star Tribune, February 27, 2009 [en ligne] |
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| CONTENTS |
- Call
Me Island, p. 3
- Isla
Mujeres : Island of Women, p. 15
- Moloka'i :
Island of Lepers, p. 23
- The
Piano Island, p. 59
- Iceland
1979, p. 83
- The
Island of Pain, p. 157
- Iceland
1999, p. 185
- Madagascar :
The Red Island of Music, p.
249
- Mallard :
Island of Civilized Wilderness,
p. 311
- The
Necessary Island : The Imagination, p. 329
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| COMPLÉMENT
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE |
- « The
windows of Brimmes : an American in
Iceland », Minneapolis : Milkweed, 2007
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| mise-à-jour : 22 octobre 2021 |
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