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Bindning: Häftat band
Bokförlag: Longwalks
ISBN: 9789197969505
Omfång: 343 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2011-06-16
Förlagets information
A new book by James Michael Wine takes you along a personal journey of learning that leads this American poet to stake out the claim that Sweden is probably the best country on Earth.
A new book by James Michael Wine takes you along a personal journey of learning that leads this American poet to stake out the claim that Sweden is probably the best country on Earth. Wines journey crossed the paths of people as diverse as John F. Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein, Jan Eliasson, KG Hammar, Tomas Tranströmer, Hans Blix, Kofi Annan, Margot Wallström, Lena Endre, Barbara Hendricks, James Lovelock, Matthew Barzun, Liv Ullmann, James Hansen, Bill McKibben, Pete Seeger, and many other voices of our time. Along with tapping their insights and those of his family, friends and colleagues along the way, Wine clings to the wisdom gleaned from poetry, music and art for guidance in coming to terms with our Nameless Age Through lyrical clarities and concrete confusions, simplicities and complexities, love and sadness, lives and deaths, poetry and politics, science and spirituality, humor and high seriousness, the great outdoors and its stillness within Probably the Best Country on Earth is one writers personal journey to understand this moment on his planet and the momentous challenges never before faced by civilization.
