Edward
Curtis photographs are well known and widely reproduced, but this beautiful new
hardcover edition with explanatory and historical text by Don Gubrandsen has
the virtue of combining excellent reproductions with an extremely affordable
price.
Edward
S. Curtis: Visions of the First Americans
by
Don Gulbrandsen
Hardcover,
256 pp/illustrated/index
$24.99
Another
beautiful book capturing the life of the planet we love from outer space is Earth:
Spirit of Place,
featuring photographs from space by astronaut Chris Hadfield. This is earth,
our beloved, threatened home planet, as you and I have never seen it. A book
for artists and scientists, mom and pop and all the kids.
Earth:
Spirit of Place
Softcover,
192pp
$35.00
There’s
a two-year wait, I hear, for tickets to the see the musical version, but you
can read the book now, and history buffs on your shopping list will be pleased
to find it under the tree.
Alexander
Hamilton,
by
Ron Chernow
Paper,
817pp
$20
And
last but hardly least, you may know Porter Abbott from his talks on narrative
or his letters to the editor of the Enterprise, Record-Eagle, and Northern
Express, but a new side of the scholarly academic is revealed in his new book
of poetry and short fiction.
Falling
Slowly Dreaming of Flight:
Poems
and Stories
by
H. Porter Abbott
Paper,
103pp
$18.85
(60%
of price to be donated to Leelanau Township Library)
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