M. Evans & Company
Pages: 224
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Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-1-59077-510-3 • Paperback • May 2015 • $15.95 • (£11.99)
978-1-59077-511-0 • eBook • May 2015 • $9.99 • (£7.99)
Lawrence Millman is the author of 16 books, including such titles as Last Places, Lost in the Arctic, An Evening Among Headhunters, and - most recently - Giant Polypores & Stoned Reindeer. His articles have appeared in National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly, and Sports Illustrated. He is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and has a mountain named after him in East Greenland.
Preface
Introduction
Proem…And He Not Far From Quiet Hisself
I. The Shanachie
1. Mackerels Was All Me Life
2. I Only Want to Possess What I Have
3. You Can Tell My Stories Aren’t Book Stories
4. My Father Was a Great Man at the Harvesting
II. The Tinker
5. We Could Have All Been Bards
6. The Road is the Best College
7. Listenin’ Was a Great Thing Once
III. Body Parts
8. Who Will You Leave Your Hands to When You Die?
9. After me, It’ll Be Dead. Poetry, I Mean
10. We Are All Islands
Envoi: The Vanishing
Lawrence Millman is that rare traveler—a person with guts and a sense of humor. He is also a wonderful writer.
— Paul Theroux, travel writer, novelist, and author of Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Millman..does eloquent justice to a salty tradition.
— Newsweek
Writing that is altogether finer than anything one has a right to expect.
— The Washington Post
Millman's a genius.
— Annie Dillard