An Elemental Thing

by Eliot Weinberger

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With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0811216942

ISBN13:9780811216944

Release Date:May 2007

Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation

Length:194 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

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