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Picking Up The Flute: A Memoir With Music
John C Elder
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Description for Picking Up The Flute: A Memoir With Music
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: AVRN; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 135. .
Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professor's musings on retirement, marriage, literature, and the natural world. From his home in historic Bristol, Vermont to Ireland's Connemara coast, travel through John Elder's exquisite topography and relish his explorations of nature, poetry, and geology. John Elder's memoir through music is permeated by his unique combination of prose and learning how to play the Irish flute. Elder revisits his time teaching at Middlebury College and explores the next phase of retirement, utilizing texts and memories from his past, whose meanings echo with a new sound now. Picking Up the ... Read more
Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professor's musings on retirement, marriage, literature, and the natural world. From his home in historic Bristol, Vermont to Ireland's Connemara coast, travel through John Elder's exquisite topography and relish his explorations of nature, poetry, and geology. John Elder's memoir through music is permeated by his unique combination of prose and learning how to play the Irish flute. Elder revisits his time teaching at Middlebury College and explores the next phase of retirement, utilizing texts and memories from his past, whose meanings echo with a new sound now. Picking Up the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Green Writers Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
343 g
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
VT, United States
ISBN
9780996135726
SKU
V9780996135726
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99-50
About John C Elder
John Elder, who has taught at Middlebury College since 1973 and now holds a split appointment as Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies, is known for his wonderful teaching and for his critical work on nature writing. He is the author most recently of Reading the Mountains of Home and has edited an encyclopedia, American Nature Writers, and (with ... Read more
Reviews for Picking Up The Flute: A Memoir With Music
Elder is an immensely gifted writer. - Chris Bohjalian, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine