When I finally received an offer, I accepted it without hesitation, without seriously questioning why. For the better part of the past decade, my applications were rejected-yet the continent continued to beckon. But that siren was unfortunately guarded by the human resources departments of various Antarctic organizations. When I discovered there were jobs there, it felt like a door had opened to this mysterious land, that had always called to me like a siren in the sea. Antarctica had been on my radar for as long as I can remember. “Why willingly put yourself in an environment where it is cold enough to make your teeth split?” (Read Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s memoir, The Worst Journey in the World.)īeing asked this question repeatedly, including by my mom, forced me to stop and think. “Why subjugate yourself to living where you won’t see the sun for six months straight?” “Why go live at an isolated station far from friends and family, where the internet is only available eight hours a day?” When I told people I was traveling to the South Pole to live for a year on Antarctica, I received a mixed bag of responses.
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The sensitivity and thoughtfulness, the rich knowledge of and love for the natural world and specially the deserts she admires and is awed by, are so obvious. The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky is written by Ellen Meloy and published by Vintage. Meloy's narratives and dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. The 'Anthropology of Turquoise' is perhaps best described as a non-fiction novel and travelogue on the natural history. Also transporting the reader to harsh reality are life's ugly bits like nuclear test sites and the politics of border crossings. Interspersed are interesting anecdotes about small creatures such as anoles and cacti. She then explains piquant tales of turquoise seas, the Yucatan Peninsula and the ruins of plantations in Bahamas. She uses the many-faceted story of turquoise, "the stone of the desert", revered for centuries by Navajo and Persians alike and turquoise "the colour of yearning", Meloy declares. This book is a brilliant weave of natural and human history. p352Ĭlear-eyed and candid, Meloy, a naturalist and writer, uses a clever mix of humour and narratives about the paradoxes of life in the American desert. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF TURQUOISE: MEDITATIONS ON LANDSCAPE, ART, AND SPIRIT. They're the smartest kids in their class, and they forge an intimacy when Connell picks his mother up from Marianne's house. Connell is popular in school, good at soccer, and nice Marianne is strange and friendless. 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It's 2011, after the financial crisis, which hovers around the edges of the book like a ghost. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". 78 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Kim No. "The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road." Accolades The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India. It is set after the Second Afghan War (which ended in 1881), but before the Third (fought in 1919), probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel popularized the phrase and idea of the Great Game. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. Perhaps more than any of his other works this dramatizes humanity's fragile place in the universe, a theme that obsessed him from the first and that he desperately tried to communicate to his contemporaries" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 1-105). He brings horror to very familiar doorsteps. "The dramatic effectiveness of the novel lies in the detailed realism with which Wells destroys Richmond, Kingston, and Wimbledon. Wells's best-known work, a catastrophe novel narrated by two unnamed brothers as southern England is invaded by Martians. Housed in a custom clamshell box by James Tapley, with the exterior featuring wraparound artwork of the Martian invasion, and the inner front cover featuring a different illustration of same. Hint of sunning to spine, small diagonal crease to rear endpaper, with some faint, scattered foxing to endpapers and right edge of textblock contents are otherwise clean, with hinges sound an uncharacteristically bright, Near Fine copy. First Impression, Currey's state A, with the 16pp publisher's catalogue at rear dated "Autumn mdcccxcvii." Octavo (19.75cm) original grey cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover viii,303, + 16pp of publisher's ads at rear. |