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  • THE EYE OF THE MAMMOTH
    STEPHEN HARRIGAN
    History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan's career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ancestors' village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in "Off Course" a quest to learn all he can ...

    $274.00

  • WATER AND LIGHT
    STEPHEN HARRIGAN
    The New York Times–bestselling author's memoir of diving in the Caribbean offers " in precise, lucid, prose, the marvels of the sea bottom" ( New Yorker). Author Stephen Harrigan spent months diving on the coral reefs of Grand Turk Island in the Caribbean. In this evocative account, he describes his many explorations, both personal and natural. Though he is there to learn about...

    $229.00

  • ARANSAS
    STEPHEN HARRIGAN
    "Beneath the genial surface" of this "resonant" first novel about a dolphin trainer who struggles with the ethics of his job "allusive undercurrents tug" ( The New York Times Book Review).   A critically acclaimed debut novel first published in 1980, Aransas recounts a young man's homecoming to his small Gulf Coast fishing town of Port Aransas. As Jeff Downing begins work train...

    $251.00

  • A NATURAL STATE
    STEPHEN HARRIGAN
    "The personal essay at its best. What Edward Abbey did for the desert Southwest and what E. B. White did for Maine, Harrigan has done for Texas." — Houston Chronicle   In this remarkable collection of essays, Stephen Harrigan explores, with an unfailing depth of feeling, the human longing to feel at home in the world of nature. In vivid and convincing prose, he evokes the lands...

    $251.00

  • BIG WONDERFUL THING
    STEPHEN HARRIGAN
    2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize 2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas 2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society "Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating ...

    $249.00