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Terrain of Salt

Terrain of Salt

Terrain of Salt

Melvin Adams

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URLink Print & Media, LLC
Año de edición:
2019
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Historia natural
ISBN:
9781643672823

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These essays reflect the author's encounter with the numinous dimension found in nature as expressed in religious texts, poetry, modern and primitive art, and science. Many of these essays were influenced by his experience growing up on the semi-arid steppe of Oregon.

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