An Elemental Thing

by Eliot Weinberger

Book Overview

With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811216942
• ISBN13: 9780811216944
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"