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  • He Caught the Westbound
    Dayton Lummis
    “He caught the westbound” is an old American hobo expression for someone who has departed from this life. In the case of this book it is employed to be symbolic of a passing American way of life and the people who created that. We live in troubled times, and the author often uncomfortably reminds us so. Yet positive travel experiences relieve the pessimism wherein the author sa...
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    10,96 €

  • The Road Ahead
    Dayton Lummis
    The Road Ahead is something that we all are on, and like the old saying, 'When you come to a fork in the road-take it,' you will travel with the author in this volume of rambling thoughts, observations and acerbic opinions with a certain amount of unease. You are not expected to agree, but may be provoked, challenged, and occasionally outraged. The author reminds us that Americ...
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    13,57 €

  • In the Velvet of Universal Emptiness
    Dayton Lummis
    This is the fifth volume of what is now known as 'The Notational Quintet,' a collection of acerbic and penetrating views of our contemporary society. The author tends toward pessimism but there are occasional bright rays that engender some hope. In reading these pieces you may be disturbed-occasionally outraged-but not bored. Good for deck reading on SS Titanic... ...
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    21,89 €

  • DEATH BY DEVICE
    Dayton Lummis
    The author freely admits that 'devices' are not all bad. For better or worse they have changed the world. But this book ranges far from the subject of the effects of 'devices,' often into areas distinctly 'politically incorrect.' Some commentary is amusing; others might be seen as 'disturbing.' This is a good companion book for your 'one-way trip to Mars!' Read it, and you will...
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    14,34 €

  • Fly Me to the Moon
    Dayton Lummis
    To some this collection of commentary and observations-fourth in what now must be called 'The Notational Quartet'-might seem as remote as the proverbial 'Man in the Moon.' But the reader will find it very relevant to the changing and troubled times that we find ourselves in. The author has steered the reader and vessel to a distant and little known shore, where hope for return ...
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    17,42 €

  • Poor Man’s Medicine
    Dayton Lummis
    POOR MAN’S MEDICINE is the third volume of what can be called 'The Notational Trilogy'-acerbic views, interpretations and opinions about contemporary human existence, society, the environment, culture, and everything else. These pieces are sometimes wistful thoughts of things past, or often unease about the future that we are being dragged into. About previous books in this tri...
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    15,10 €

  • Ramblin’ Bob
    Dayton Lummis
    The stage and film actor Peter Holden (Parkhurst) has called Dayton Lummis 'a cosmic town crier.' Indeed, that he is, and more. This latest volume, Ramblin’ Bob, will reveal that. Read it! The California social critic Tom Englezos said of Lummis’s previous collection of acerbic thoughts and often politically incorrect observations: 'I thoroughly-and absolutely-enjoyed NOTES. I ...
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    18,12 €

  • Notes
    Dayton Lummis
    This book is just what it says it is-NOTES! Assembled from the author’s collection of the last 40 years. Ranging from politically incorrect to absurdly romantic to disturbingly insightful, they are like darts thrown blindfolded; they hit what they will. From coast to coast, city to high mountains and lonely desert, almost no subject of contemporary America is left untouched. Yo...
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    18,16 €

  • Spaceships and Liquor
    Dayton Lummis
    SPACESHIPS AND LIQUOR is a collection of both amusing and deadly serious essays, vignettes and commentaries on life in contemporary America. The author includes a section he calls 'Politically Incorrect,' wherein he trods in opinionated territory, not always comfortably. You may not agree, but you will not be bored. Balancing this are more neutral and light-hearted views of the...
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    18,89 €

  • MARTIAN DESERT AFTERNOON
    Dayton Lummis
    MARTIAN DESERT AFTERNOON is an impressionistic collection of 'poetic statements' about America, places and people, in the last half of the Twentieth Century-observations, impressions, descriptions. All of which contain perceptive insight on what is sometimes referred to as 'Many a Vanished Sight...' There are moments when the perceptions seem almost at the point of madness, but...
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    13,38 €

  • Vanishing Point
    Lummis Dayton Lummis
    VANISHING POINT is an eclectic collection of the author’s writings ranging from short fiction pieces, and a disturbing account of 'a difficult period' in early 1960s San Francisco, to personal observations in the first years of the 21st century. There are brief vignettes that capture aspects of the American character, from positive to cynically critical. Throughout the volume t...
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    17,33 €

  • Not Wanted
    Dayton Lummis
    In March 1976 five members of the family of State Department employee William Bradford Bishop, Jr., were found slain in a shallow grave in rural eastern North Carolina. It was determined that the murders had been committed in the family home in suburban Washington, D.C. Bishop was missing, and the authorities quickly named him the one and only suspect in the brutal and seemingl...
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    9,58 €

  • Clippings From the Vine
    Dayton Lummis
    CLIPPINGS FROM THE VINE consists of selections from the author’s seven published books, and concludes with a series of contemporary personal essays, observations and opinions as we enter the Obama Era of hopefully positive change. Ranging from Coast to Coast, all over the Inter-mountain West, and covering a period of almost sixty years, the author deftly chronicles his experien...
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    27,05 €

  • The Millennial Deer
    Dayton Lummis
    THE MILLENNIAL DEER is a collection of essays-social, cultural and political commentary, in the form of old-fashioned correspondence. Relevant to the changing conditions of the early years of the 21st Century, the author’s views are presented with wit, great insight, and occasional political incorrectness and ill humor. They seek to connect a lost past with the mystique of a pr...
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    18,89 €

  • States of Mind
    Dayton Lummis
    STATES OF MIND is a collection of the author’s letters from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and St David’s, Pennsylvania, to a very literate and old-fashioned gentleman in San Francisco. Written between 1993 and 2000, they are insightful, humorous and sometimes grouchy. They reflect two very diverse places in the American landscape-some would say no two places could be more different!-an...
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    17,35 €

  • Constructing Hornbeck
    Dayton Lummis
    CONSTRUCTING HORNBECK is a challenging book of many angles. Depending on how it is held to the light, the facets reveal aspects that are mystical, baffling, and at times downright bizarre. Misadventure and visions combine with solid storytelling to throw light on one of the twentieth century’s most puzzling and persistent mysteries-the disappearance of Hornbeck. Partially assem...
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    16,63 €

  • Casita Dreemz
    Dayton Lummis
    CASITA DREEMZ is an impressionistic journey across the American West over 50 years. The author drifts like mist lifting from Green River Hole. Many rivers flow and many ranges rise from desert basins. The images he presents are like the tiny shadows that dart across the grasslands in the fading light of the day, and are gone . ...
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    15,14 €

  • Dust Devils
    Dayton Lummis
    Dayton Lummis has lived a unique American life--as museum director in a mountain ghost town 9,500 feet high, as caretaker of an abandoned ranch surrounded by endless desert, as an inveterate wanderer pulled through vast empty landscapes that most Americans have never heard of, and will never see. And always-always--on his journeys, he takes back roads. The characters Lummis has...
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    19,00 €

  • When Earl Was King Neptune
    Dayton Lummis
    WHEN EARL WAS KING NEPTUNE is a keenly insightful account of the author’s family, and of his personal experiences, observations and intersections with people, places and events in the last half of the 20th century in the Northeast portion of the United States. His story is told with great interpretative skill, wit and occasional humor and at times considerable cynicism. Part hi...
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    21,10 €

  • Captain Midnight and the California Dream
    Dayton Lummis
    CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM is an impressionistic journey of more than 50 years of extremely uneven and often strangely disconnected experiences in California. It stretches from the author’s father’s hardscrabble ranch in the remote mountains above Los Angeles, through ups and downs in an always-unpredictable California, ending, more or less, at a lonely and primi...
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    16,61 €