| Description |
429 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The ridge-slope fox and the knife thrower -- The courage of turtles -- Home is two places -- Mountain notch -- Of cows and Cambodia -- Howling back at the wolves -- Lament the red wolf -- Thoughts on returning to the city after five months on a mountain where the wolves howled -- City walking -- City rat -- The threshold and the jolt of pain -- In the toils of the law -- Virginie and the slaves -- Mushpan man -- Bears, bears, bears. |
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Hailing the elusory mountain lion -- The moose on the wall -- A run of bad luck -- Heart's desire -- The lapping, itchy edge of love -- The problem of the golden rule -- Bragging for humanity -- Dogs and the tug of life -- Other lives -- The midnight freight to Portland -- Fred King on the allagash -- Walking the Dead Diamond River -- The tugman's passage -- A low-water man -- Heaven and nature. |
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Tiger bright -- Dying argots -- Two clowns -- Should auld acquaintgance -- Gods, masks, and horses. |
| Subject |
Essays.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst00915437
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Essays.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Essays.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hoagland, Edward. Heart's desire. New York : Summit Books, ©1988 (OCoLC)647189919 |
| ISBN |
067164985X |
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9780671649852 |
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0671669532 (cover) |
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9780671669539 (cover) |
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