Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
Autor Stephen Harriganen Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 1999
This evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1992.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292731202
ISBN-10: 0292731205
Pagini: 287
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Univ of Texas P.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
ISBN-10: 0292731205
Pagini: 287
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Univ of Texas P.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
Notă biografică
Harrigan is a former senior editor of Texas Monthly magazine who now writes full-time from his home in Austin, Texas.
Cuprins
- 1. My Underwater Self
- 2. Dry Dock
- 3. Harmonium Point
- 4. Trees of Stone
- 5. Tierra
- 6. Eye to Eye
- 7. The Pain of Water
- 8. The Dead Whale
- 9. Algal Ridge
- 10. Faceless
- 11. Lobster Rock
- 12. Underwater Nights
- 13. Lord Face of Water
- 14. Homesick Turtles
- 15. Wandering
- 16. The Green Mirror
- 17. Prospects
- 18. The Burning Reef
- For Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Recenzii
Moving, intelligent and, in the best sense, literary.... Stephen Harrigan is anchored in reality; he knows that the environment he's describing is in serious jeopardy. At the same time, he has made this book sparkle with his remarkable ability to discuss the metaphysical and spiritual aspects of underwater exploration without ever sounding saccharine or murky.
[Harrigan] tells us about the people who live on Grand Turk, or come there on business, and he is given to reflecting on the subtleties of the underwater experience, but his real virtue as a writer is his ability to convey, in precise, lucid, prose, the marvels of the sea bottom.
Harrigan ...captures the peacefulness of being rocked by salty currents, the massive beauty of the reefs, the exhilaration of the sport, and the mental scramble to retain fast-fading memories of sights almost unimaginable on land. Fellow divers will relish his camaraderie, while those who prefer staying topside will feel as though they've taken the plunge themselves.
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An evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean.