Mountain madness found and lost in the peaks of America and Japan
"Mountain Madness is an essay collection that covers the narrator's change from West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, the author lived in Kosuge Village (population 900), nestled...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press
2021.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Crux : the Georgia series in literary nonfiction. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46275861*spi |
| Sumario: | "Mountain Madness is an essay collection that covers the narrator's change from West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan's Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, the author lived in Kosuge Village (population 900), nestled in central Japan's peaks. He was the only foreigner in this rugged, hilly town, and the book uses these three years as a frame. The project profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and the fallout from mountain obsession, including an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano. The collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities, physical and metaphysical?"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780820358543 |
