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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 about his father, who died in a plane crash six months before he was born.
Harrigan's deceptively straightforward voice belies an intense curiosity about things that, by his own admission, may be "unknowable." Certainly, we are limited in what we can know about the inner life of George Washington, the last days of Davy Crockett, the motives of a caged tiger, or a father we never met, but Harrigan's gift-a gift that has also made him an award-winning novelist-is to bring readers closer to such things, to make them less remote, just as a cave painting in the title essay eerily transmits the living stare of a long-extinct mammoth.
Contents
Foreword by Nicholas Lemann
Part One: Music in the Desert
Morning Light
On the Edge
The Secret Life of the Beach
Going into the Desert
Isla del Padre
"The Tiger Is God"
The Bay
Swamp Thing
The Silver Kings
Part Two: Highways and Jungle Paths
The Roof of Eden
Feeling Flush
The Anger of Achilles
Rock and Sky
The Little Man's Road
My Igloo
A Secret Door
Part Three: The Shadow of History
The Temple of Destiny
The Man Nobody Knows
Comanche Midnight
Wolf House
The Last Days of David Crockett
Taking Care of Lonesome Dove
His Fostering Hand
The Eye of the Mammoth
A Troublous Life
Part Four: Where Is My Home?
What Texas Means to Me
The Soul of Treaty Oak
Wish I Were There
The Eyesore
The Golden Age of Austin
Texanic!
Fade In, Fade Out
Where Is My Home?
Off Course
Acknowledgments
