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The Tangierman's Lament. and Other Tales of Virginia.
Earl Swift
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Description for The Tangierman's Lament. and Other Tales of Virginia.
Hardback. Go where the story is - that's one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed - even spelunked - a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JJP; DNJ; WSZ; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 503.
Go where the story is - that's one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed - even spelunked - a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating strangeness. The Pulitzer-nominated title story takes us to the Chesapeake island of Tangier, home to a Methodist enclave over two hundred years old, with an economy almost wholly dependent on the blue crab. The ... Read more
Go where the story is - that's one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed - even spelunked - a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating strangeness. The Pulitzer-nominated title story takes us to the Chesapeake island of Tangier, home to a Methodist enclave over two hundred years old, with an economy almost wholly dependent on the blue crab. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926223
SKU
V9780813926223
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About Earl Swift
A staff writer for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift has been a Fulbright fellow, PEN finalist, and five times nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of Where They Lay: Searching for America's Lost Soldiers and Journey on the James: Three Weeks through the Heart of Virginia (Virginia), winner of the 2002 Phillip D. Reed Award for environmental ... Read more
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