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..., or old newsreels, or Primo Levi, or Giorgio Bassani's Garden of the Finzi-Continis (published ...
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Letting Go Of Bobby Jones, or How I Found My Self of Steam" by Valerie Hobbs
..."The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" by Giorgio Bassani. "The Last Will of Moira Leahy" by Therese...
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Until the 20th century, birders were a murderous lot -- often a single artist or scientist would kill a hundred or more birds in a day. Bird slaughter was seen as a necessary part of observation and study. "But now, in the twenty-first century, I suspect that most bird-watchers would find it harder to identify a dead bird in the hand than a living one in flight," Graeme Gibson writes in The Bedside Book of Birds -- An Avian Miscellany (Doubleday, 2005).
Gibson is just guessing, but his is an educated guess. An avid bird-watcher for decades, Gibson is chairman of the Pelee Island Bird Observatory in Ontario, Canada. He collected the writings and the illustrations in The Bedside Book of Birds with the quick eye of a nonviolent, contemporary bird-watcher. "The word birder, until about the ...
... shooting a heron in a story by Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000). Norman Lewis (1908-2003) acco...
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... of Marilyn Monroe (read by the novelist Giorgio Bassani) with newsreel images, atomic explosions, ...
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... of Marilyn Monroe (read by the novelist Giorgio Bassani) with newsreel images, atomic explosions, ...
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...Cloth $45.00 (030011740X) . BASSANI, EZIO, ED. Arts of Africa: 7000 Years of African A...Cloth $45.00 (069112678X) . VASARI, GIORGIO. The Life of Michelangelo. London: Pallas Athene, ...
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...ASHBERY, JOHN. Giorgio Cavallon: Paintings. Exh. cat. New York: Salander-...Cloth $55.00 (0292706227) . BASSANI, EZIO, ED. Arts of Africa: 7000 Years of African A...