books by North Point Pr     books:     North Point Pr      West With the Night Beryl Markham North Point Pr, 1987 Beautifully written account of life in East Africa My grandparents went to East Africa in the 1920s. My grandfather, a Scotsman, was looking for gold, my grandmother, a South African was looking for romance. My mother was born in the year this book opens. When I was a child my mother regaled me with stories of ...             The Paris Edition: The Autobiography of Waverly Root, 1927-1934 Waverly Root, Samuel Abt North Point Pr, 1987 newspapers can be fun Lively, humorous. instructive treatise on life in the press--in Paris in the good days, Filled with enthralling anecdotes. Root knew everybody except Hemingway.             Joy of Man's Desiring Jean Giono North Point Pr, 1980 Starry, starry night. Jean Giono french novelist from Provence;father a cobbler. His work falls into two main sections;the pre-war novels (the best) and the post-war romances.This novel is from the former period and is rightly considered his masterpiece.It is a mysterious,ambiguous,lyrical ...             Sabbaths Wendell Berry North Point Pr, 1987 Wendell Berry's most formal poetic work to date is a sequence of traditional and classic meditations, spanning the years 1979 to 1985. Written in the solitude of his hillside study over seven years of Sabbaths, these are poems of deep spirituality, meshing the metaphysical and the natural worlds.             The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and Lore Harold McGee North Point Pr, 1990 How You Too Can Apply Science to Food. Excellent Read Harold McGee is probably the most widely cited writer in American culinary writing today. Alton Brown literally genuflects at the mention of his name and complains that he is hard pressed to find a subject on which Herr McGee has not already explored at some length. ...             Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal David Kline North Point Pr, 1990 A Peaceable Kingdom "Great Possessions" radiates serenity and joy, but there is an underlying sadness for things lost--American chestnut trees, passenger pigeons, family farms. It is a rare natural history book that doesn't have this poignant undercurrent. Here is an author who can ...             Collected Poems: 1957-1982 Wendell Berry North Point Pr, 1985 The book that stays on my nightstand Like a river I love to swim in             The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership Wendell Berry North Point Pr, 1989 Wendell Berry's best collection He has many great fiction writings but I would start with this one. Solid, clear, continuously beautiful. 'Fidelity' comes in second place but this by far is leads. Should replace lots of other nonsense in the American lit canon.             The Language of the Birds: Tales, Texts, & Poems of Interspecies Communication North Point Pr, 1986 a book unlike any other language of the birds is the only book of its kind. i take it with me whenever i travel and although i have read it entirely more than a few times, i am always somehow surprised to find something brand new - how to apoligize to a seal is especially fantastic - as well ...             Last Night's Fun: In and Out of Time With Irish Music Ciaran Carson North Point Pr, 1997 Delvings of the deep diddly diddly Belfast writer, fluter, raconteur and unreliable witness takes us into the subterranean world of craic agus chaos as he attempts to surf the web of the perfect session experience. Part nostalgic interrogtation of his own relationship with traditional music, part ...             Private Domain: An Autobiography Paul Taylor North Point Pr, 1988 An honest and penetrating self-portrait of one of the very g It's good to see this new reprint of Paul Taylor's great memoir on sale. It would be a tragedy if this magnificient book were to become unavailable. In many ways this book is like a great Taylor dance. Filled with light and shade, humor and sadness, affirmation ...             Sun at Midnight: Poems and Sermons Muso Soseki, W. S. Merwin, ... North Point Pr, 1989 Midnight in the Garden of Satori and Samsara Right in this very book Muso Soseki (a very important Japanese Zen Rinzai monk of the "Five Mountains" milieu) quotes with approval a former Zen monk saying, "It is a pity that students with great capacity waste their whole lives reading widely in the native and ...             Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country Lolis Eric Elie North Point Pr, 1997 Great read. First off, if you are buying this book expecting a cookbook, don't. Buy it because it is a hell of an entertaining read instead. The book itself is one man's story of traveling the backroads of the US searching for and eating a lot of good barbecue. It is also his ...             Through Another Lens: My Years With Edward Weston Charis Wilson, Wendy Madar North Point Pr, 1999 A well-written, revealing rememberance. Charis Wilson reveals some sides of Edward Weston not previously published, and corrects some missimpressions that have been published. She is an excellent writer. Readers should recall that this book is a rememberance, not a spicy revelation; with that in mind, they ...             Out of Sheer Rage : Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence Geoff Dyer North Point Pr, 1998 beyond catagory Not especially distinguished as a storyteller, or a travel expert, or a memoirist, what Mr Dyer is primarily is a writer - he has the rare quality of rendering anything he alights on into literature, no matter what the genre. His wide-ranging interests, reflected in ...          products you might be interested in search for books autobiography, communication, interspecies, membership, possessions, smokestack      toavi.com    web we recommend Beautifully written account of life in East Africa randomly chosen book: The Cantor's Daughter: Stories