The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays

Connell, Evan S.

ISBN 10: 1582431620 / ISBN 13: 9781582431628

Published by Counterpoint, 2001

Seller Inventory # E-9781582431628-2-2

Synopsis:

A new collection of essays by the author of Mrs. Bridge and Son of a Morning Star covers a wide range of topics from the Anasazi Indians of the desert Southwest to explorer Marco Polo to seminal advances in the fields of astronomy, archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics. 25,000 first printing.

Synopsis: A collection of new and selected essays by master craftsman Evan S. Connell.. Evan Connell has long been attracted to the visionary and eccentric, to those people and events slightly outside the mainstream of human experience. His subjects are people of passion and purpose, events of legend and desire. He offers stories of the Anazasi, the "old ones" of the southwestern desert, of the grand explorers Marco Polo, Columbus, Magellan, and Ibn Batuta, of heretics, fanatics, scientists, cranks, and geniuses. There are tales of fabulous advances made in anthropology, archeology, astronomy, and linguistics. This is a book of great "celebrations of man's insatiable drive to probe unknown frontiers [that] read like superb novels," says Grover Sales of the San Francisco Chronicle. "[They] establish Connell as an important writer-poet-thinker with a truly original mind."The Aztec Treasure House comprises two previous collections, The White Lantern and A Long Desire, and two new essays never published in trade book form. The whole amounts to a dazzling monument to the career of one of America's finest writers.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected ...
Publisher: Counterpoint
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very good