William deBuys
Forfatter af The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
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William deBuys is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures. He lives in northern New Mexico.
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(eng) Full name: William Eno DeBuys
Image credit: photo by Ben Moscona
Værker af William deBuys
Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range (1985) 76 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1949
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- El Valle, New Mexico, USA
- Erhverv
- writer
conservationist - Organisationer
- Valles Caldera Trust
- Kort biografi
- [excerpted from author's website]
Conservationist and writer William deBuys is the author of ten books. He has been a Kluge Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress (2018), a Guggenheim Fellow (2008-2009), and a Lyndhurst Fellow (1986-1988). He was the founding Chair of the Valles Caldera Trust, responsible for administering the 89,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mexico (2001-2004). He lives on the farm he has tended since 1976 in the remote village of El Valle in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains. - Oplysning om flertydighed
- Full name: William Eno DeBuys
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I wasn't entirely sure about the writing at first, as it struck me that the author was sometimes trying to be a little too poetic to make up for otherwise being pretty -- sorry for the word choice! -- dry. But he absolutely won me over by the end, and ultimately I found this to be informative, absorbing, and thoughtful, with a nice balance between broad overview and intimate detail. Recommended for anyone with an interest in the US's desert states, the changes they've been through, and the ones that are still ahead.… (mere)