Michael McCurdy Bücher

Ein Klassiker der französischen Literatur, neu illustriert von Quint Buchholz: Kurz vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg beginnt der Schäfer Elzéard Bouffier, in der verödeten, zerstörten Provence Bäume zu pflanzen. Einfach so, um die Welt wieder schön zu machen, pflanzt er Tag für Tag, jahrzehntelang. Und schafft es tatsächlich, dadurch vielen Menschen ein Stück Lebensfreude zu schenken. Die Bilder des preisgekrönten Malers und Illustrators Quint Buchholz unterstreichen die hochaktuelle Thematik, die in dieser Geschichte liegt: Ein Außenseiter, der es schafft, mittels Geduld und festem Willen ans Ziel zu kommen und die Natur nachhaltig zu verändern.

Ever since the publication of Ishmael in 1992, readers have yearned for a glimpse into a dimension of spiritual revelation the author only hinted at in that and later books. Now at long last they have it in seven profound but delightfully simple tales that illuminate the world in which humans became humans. This is a world seen through animist as friendly to human life as it was to the life of gazelles, lions, lizards, mosquitos, jellyfish, and seals — not a world in which humans lived like trespassers who must conquer and subdue an alien territory. It's a world in which humans have a place in the community of life — not as rulers but as equals — with the paths of all held together in the hand of god.This is not an ancient world or a lost world. It exists as surely today as it ever did — for those who have eyes to see it. Tales of Adam, delightfully illustrated by Michael McCurdy, is a book that will come to be shelved alongside The Prophet , Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and The Alchemist .