Meetings with Remarkable Trees
7 best books like Meetings with Remarkable Trees (Thomas Pakenham): A Fortunate Life, Oscar and Lucinda, Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology, The Last Opium Den, Walking on Alligators: A Book of Meditations for Writers, The Memory of Old Jack
| Author | Albert B. Facey |
| ISBN | 0140081674 |
This is the extraordinary life of an ordinary man. It is the story of Albert Facey, who lived with simple honesty, compassion and courage. A parentless boy who started work at eight on the rough West Australian frontier, he struggled as an itinerant rural worker, survived the gore of Gallipoli, the loss...
| Author | Peter Carey |
| ISBN | 0702229784 |
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story.
Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country...
Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength
The Cosmic Trilogy relates the interplanetary travels of Ransom, C.S. Lewis's ill-informed and terrified victim who leaves Earth much against his will and who, in the first book of the trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, published by the Bodley Head in 1938, encounters the imaginary and delightful...
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0060924209 |
This is one of my favorite all-time poetry anthologies. I picked it up at a discount bookstore in San Francisco, back when I was still a reader searching for the right books. And I swear, back when I was reading mostly fiction and memoir, and my depression was making nonsense of my writing, this book brought...
Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss.
Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den. From Europe to Hong Kong to Thailand...
| Author | Susan Shaughnessy |
| ISBN | 0062507583 |
I mentioned this book today on my podcast (https://jeffekennedy.com/first-cup-of...) and that prompted me to pop in here and rate/review it. I picked this up in 1993 when it first came out. I spotted it on a table at my local indie bookstore and, as I was just in the beginning stages of figuring out how...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1582430438 |
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through...
