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The Wild Earth's Nobility (Pike's Peak)
Frank Waters
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Description for The Wild Earth's Nobility (Pike's Peak)
Paperback. Series: Pike's Peak. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA; FT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
The Wild Earth's Nobility is the first of Frank Waters's semiautobiographical novels in the Pikes Peak saga. Here, in a frontier town in the shadow of the commanding mountain, the Rogier family settles near an age-old route of migrating Native Americans. In an era of prospecting, silver strikes, and frenzied mining, Joseph Rogier becomes a successful building contractor, rears a large family, and is gradually overwhelmed by the power of the great peak. In Waters's visionary prose, the story becomes a mythic journey to reconcile instinct and reason, consciousness and intuition, and the powerful emotions of a family struggling with ... Read more
The Wild Earth's Nobility is the first of Frank Waters's semiautobiographical novels in the Pikes Peak saga. Here, in a frontier town in the shadow of the commanding mountain, the Rogier family settles near an age-old route of migrating Native Americans. In an era of prospecting, silver strikes, and frenzied mining, Joseph Rogier becomes a successful building contractor, rears a large family, and is gradually overwhelmed by the power of the great peak. In Waters's visionary prose, the story becomes a mythic journey to reconcile instinct and reason, consciousness and intuition, and the powerful emotions of a family struggling with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ohio University Press Ohio
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Pike's Peak
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780804010474
SKU
KEX0227536
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About Frank Waters
Frank Waters (1902-1995), one of the finest chroniclers of the American Southwest, wrote twenty-eight works of fiction and nonfiction.
Reviews for The Wild Earth's Nobility (Pike's Peak)
"If there does exist for each of us a psychological archetype, or a Guru, manifested as a physical mountain, Pikes Peak is mine." Frank Waters