The Kerguelens--isolated French islands in the southern Indian Ocean--were the home of the Arch of Kerguelen, a 1,000-foot-tall stone vault that had confounded navigators for centuries. Jean-Paul Kauffmann finds poetry in the isolation and strangely serene beauty of this land far from the hustle of "civilized" life, where the vast ocean dominates, where the wind reigns and solitude is interrupted only by animals scrambling in the windswept fields by the graves of those who journeyed there before.
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The Kerguelens--isolated French islands in the southern Indian Ocean--were the home of the Arch of Kerguelen, a 1,000-foot-tall stone vault that had confounded navigators for centuries. Jean-Paul Kauffmann finds poetry in the isolation and strangely serene beauty of this land far from the hustle of "civilized" life, where the vast ocean dominates, where the wind reigns and solitude is interrupted only by animals scrambling in the windswept fields by the graves of those who journeyed there before.
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New York. 2000. Four Walls Eight Windows. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1568581688. Translated from the French by Patricia Clancy. 288 pages. hardcover. keywords: Travel Islands Kerguelens Indian Ocean. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Kerguelens-isolated French islands in the southern Indian Ocean-were the home of the Arch of Kerguelen, a 1, 000-foot-tall stone vault that had confounded navigators for centuries. Jean-Paul Kauffmann finds poetry in the isolation and strangely serene beauty of this land far from the hustle of 'civilized' life, where the vast ocean dominates, where the wind reigns and solitude is interrupted only by animals scrambling in the windswept fields by the graves of those who journeyed there before. inventory #28482.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First American Edition. The fascinating historical story of the 1772 discovery and exploration of the 'Desolation' Kerguelen Islands some three thousand miles off Australia, existing 'outside of time' and becoming the source of many of the Enlightenment's poems and paintings depicting great solitude, isolation, and mystery. Hardcover with dust jacket, contains endnotes, bibliography, 206pp., small remainders mark to underside. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free archival plastic protector. Rare. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Good. Size: 6x0x8; Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes History; Good trade paperback with creasing, nicked, stained edges, and prompt shipping with tracking.
