The Eye of the Mammoth
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The Eye of the Mammoth

New and Selected Essays

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The Eye of the Mammoth

New and Selected Essays

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History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in "Off Course" a quest to learn all he can about his father, who died in a plane crash six months before he was born.

Harrigan's deceptively straightforward voice belies an intense curiosity about things that, by his own admission, may be "unknowable." Certainly, we are limited in what we can know about the inner life of George Washington, the last days of Davy Crockett, the motives of a caged tiger, or a father we never met, but Harrigan's gift—a gift that has also made him an award-winning novelist—is to bring readers closer to such things, to make them less remote, just as a cave painting in the title essay eerily transmits the living stare of a long-extinct mammoth.

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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781477320549
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for the Eye of the Mammoth
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Foreword
  9. Part One: Music in the Desert
  10. Part Two: Highways and Jungle Paths
  11. Part Three: The Shadow of History
  12. Part Four: Where Is My Home?
  13. Acknowledgments