Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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For a modest man, which he is, British Poet John Betjeman has unsuspected temerity. Although he has done nothing more significant in life than to farm a little, review books, write guides about the English countryside and turn out delightful light verse, Betjeman at 54 has published an autobiography of...
Rivers, except for the big navigable ones, are a little out of date. So dam builders in the Western states are turning them into strings of placid lakes, stocked with fish, vacationers and beer cans. Only unregenerate wildlife cranks doubt that progress is served in the interests of flood control...
For three weeks in raw November weather he steered a canoe down the Brazos, alone except for an unruly Dachshund pup and chance riverbank acquaintances. He hunted and fished sparingly, thought a good deal, stopped often to poke about in the ruins of a settler's cabin or the...
Graves, a short-story writer who teaches creative writing at Texas Christian University, tells accurately of the echoing loneliness a housebred man feels during the first night's camp, and then, days later, of the quick resentment stirred by the intrusion of another human being. During the stillnesses, the...
Prowling about farther downriver, Graves finds old wagon ruts leading from a ford to the sandstone foundation of a vanished cabin. A man named Henry Welty, the author recalls, built the cabin and bred children and cattle there successfully until one night in 1863 he was slaughtered and scalped by...