ebooks Feasting and Fasting with Lewis Clark: A Food and Social History of the Early 1800s by Leandra Zim Holland in History

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A singular life often circles around a singular moment; an occasion when one’s life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For the extraordinary writer James Salter; this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where; during his young manhood; he flew more than one hundred missions. As The New York Times noted; "It isn’t often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it; Saint-Exupery was one; Salter is another."The editors have gathered selections from a journal Salter kept during the Korean War; published here for the first time; and assembled selections from two novels; The Hunters and Cassada; and from the author’s celebrated memoir; Burning the Days. As the editors comment in a brief introduction; "It is; as a record of the day-to-day; mission-to-mission life of a young fighter pilot; a remarkable document by any standard. But it provides as well a view into the ‘crucible of a writer’s beginnings; like pencil studies that precede a painting; in which the essential qualities of the artist’s hand are unmistakable.’ "