Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, political commentator, translator, and editor. His books of literary essays include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing and Oranges & Peanuts for Sale. His political articles are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. Weinberger is the translator of Bei Dao, Octavio Paz, Vicente Huidbro and Jorge Luis Borges and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. His work has been translated into thirty languages, and appears frequently in the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He lives in New York City.

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Essays

128 pages
Paperback, 17 x 15 cm
Published April 2012
ISBN 9781920882839

Eliot Weinberger’s essays are like encyclopaedias in miniature, crammed with curious details that make you wonder at the strangeness of creation, and the ability of humans to make it even stranger. Wildlife is a collection which celebrates birds and fish, dogs and flies, ticks and mole-rats, and those two legendary creatures the tiger and the rhinoceros – both highly prized, both now almost hunted to extinction.

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