The Genus of Pines
Abstract Alapp Reindeer Herdsman Approaching Rovaniemi. A Oaxacan campesino piling firewood sticks on his burro. A turpentiner from the Landes of Gascony, an Evenki truck driver, an Alabama short-order cook. A vintner of Ravenna, a Harbin dentist, Scottish harpers playing old ballads in a minor key....
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
1996
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195089028.003.0002 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52409923/isbn-9780195089028-book-part-2.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract Alapp Reindeer Herdsman Approaching Rovaniemi. A Oaxacan campesino piling firewood sticks on his burro. A turpentiner from the Landes of Gascony, an Evenki truck driver, an Alabama short-order cook. A vintner of Ravenna, a Harbin dentist, Scottish harpers playing old ballads in a minor key. A seemingly diverse lot with little in common to bind them? Perhaps. Yet all were probably raised, if not in the shadow, then at least within resin-scent or pollen-flight of the trees we call pines. The baobab may have been, as Peter Matthiessen would have it, the tree where man was born; but it was at the foot of the pine tree that man came of age. |
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