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A Natural Curiosity
http://www.geoffwisner.com/index.php/blog
Thoughts on Thoreau, nature, Africa, books, investing, and whatever else comes up by published author Geoff Wisner.
- Added on: Nov 1st, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Geoff Wisner
- Listed in: Books Natural
- Tags: africa books environment investing Nature thoreau
Recent Posts
Cormac McCarthy gives you something new to worry about
The Mumpsimus alerted me to this interesting interview with Cormac McCarthy in the Wall Street Journal, which includes this rather chilling exchange. WSJ: When you discussed making “The Road” into a movie with John, did he press you on what had...
The Journal of Henry David Thoreau
The Quarterly Conversation has published my review of the new edition of Thoreau’s Journal, edited by Damion Searls and published by New York Review Books. Here’s an excerpt from the review: Best known as a translator and fiction writer, Searls...
The Melvin Memorial
On a recent visit to the Metropolitan Museum, I spent some time with the figure of Mourning Victory, reproduced in marble from the Melvin Memorial that stands in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. This is one of my favorite work...
What the Consul drank
Malcolm Lowry’s great novel Under the Volcano is about, among other things, the Cabbala, Dante, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, the rise of fascism, the ways in which we create hell on earth, and the ways in which we sometimes enjoy that hell and resist ...
The Education of a British-Protected Child
My review of Chinua Achebe’s new collection of essays, The Education of a British-Protected Child, is up at the Christian Science Monitor. In it, among other things, Achebe renews a long-time sparring contest with his colleague Ngugi wa Thiong...
Hawk and Cicada
My friend Lucy has posted photos of a fierce-looking hawk and a cicada emerging from its shell. I’ve often seen cicada shells clinging to tree trunks or lying on the sidewalk, but I’ve never seen the insect actually emerging. Very cool. Here ...
