THE End of the 19th Century by Eric Larsen

THE End of the 19th Century by Eric Larsen

Larsen stretches conventional fiction's reach with this story of a character whose childhood and coming-of-age consist of his gradual internalizing of history-as he puts it, his coming to understand the mysteries of space and time. At first, he sees only glimpses of life-through the briefly-opened windows of eyesight in early childhood. Later on, everything begins serving as windows into the past-objects, locations, landscapes, the town he's born in, the people in it-even his aging great-aunts Marie and Lutie, whose origins are back in the 19th century. Through small things like a visit from his great-aunts one afternoon in 1944 (when he's four years old), a blimp cruising overhead in 1946, goldfish hovering beneath the surface of a pond, the sound of a train whistle in the night, Malcolm Reiner comes to understand that things can be related horizontally, then also vertically-relationships that, when combined with the element of time itself, reveal history-that is, as life, followed by the absence of life-to be a web of such intricate complexity that it can't ever be understood. And yet Reiner dedicates his life to exactly this study of the mysteries of space and time. In his studies he finds a sweep of time includes the history of West Tree, Minnesota; of the Epoch of Walking; and of his own years of perfect seeing, the period when, living on a farm outside West Tree, he's able, with a poetic vividness rare in fiction, to sense and see what America once was.

Eric Larsen has skied to both the geographic North Pole and South Pole, twice. He was also the first person to reach both poles under human power, and the summit of Mount Everest in a single calendar year. He has raced in the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon, summited Mount McKinley, and biked across the United States. A filmmaker, Larsen created Melting: Last Race to the Pole, a documentary about his Save the Poles expedition, which premiered on Animal Planet in December 2015. Larsen gives motivational and educational lectures to schools, universities, non-profits, and corporations around the world. A frequent media commentator, he has been featured in the New York Times, Time magazine, Outside magazine, National Geographic, The Guardian, and Men's Journal, as well as on CNN, NBC News, CBS News, and BBC News, among other outlets. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. Hudson Lindenberger is a Boulder-based adventure writer. His work has been published in Men's Journal, Skiing, 5280, Women's Running, Elevation Outdoors, and Story.

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ISBN 13	9780982987841
ISBN 10	0982987846
Title	THE End of the 19th Century
Author	Eric Larsen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oliver Arts and Open Press
Year published	2011-12-31
Number of pages	242
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