Contributions

  • Leach, Catherine S. - Contributor

Publication

2002 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

75,000 words, Guess

Page Count

300 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100374528306
  • ISBN-139780374528300
  • LibraryThing37924
  • Goodreads145664
  • Library of Congress Control Number2002022552
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC891.8/58709
  • DDCB
  • LCCPG7158.M5532 A3613 2002
and 1 more
  • LCCPG7158.M5532A3613

Description

A biography of observations of himself and others, beginning in Eastern Europe and extending to America.

First Sentence

FOR MANY CENTURIES, while kingdoms rose and fell along the shores of the Mediterranean and countless generations handed down their refined pleasures and vices, my native land was a virgin forest whose only visitors were the few Viking ships that landed on the coast.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography

Links

Other Editions

  • Native realm: a search for self-definitionFarrar, Straus and Giroux2002-01-01
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