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Author | : Audrey Schulman |
Publisher | : Europa Editions |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-02-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1609459024 |
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“Two Americans have life-altering experiences in Africa a century apart in this environmentalist adventure novel” by the author of Theory of Bastards (Kirkus Reviews). In 1899, Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across British East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he becomes the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in nightly attacks. Plagued by fear and alienated by a secret he can tell no one, Jeremy takes increasing solace in the company of his African scout. In 2000, Max, an American ethnobotanist, travels to Rwanda where she searches for an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical. Stationed in the mountains, she shadows a family of gorillas—the last of their group to survive the local poachers. But their precarious freedom is threatened as a violent rebel group from the nearby Congo draws close. Told in alternating perspectives that interweave the two characters and their fates, Audrey Schulman’s novel deftly confronts the struggle between progress and preservation, idiosyncrasy and acceptance.
Author | : Audrey Schulman |
Publisher | : Europa Editions UK |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1787701263 |
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In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across British East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he becomes the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in nightly attacks on their camp. Plagued by fear, wracked with malaria, and alienated by a secret he can tell no one, he takes increasing solace in the company of an African man who scouts for him. In 2000 Max, an American ethnobotonist, travels to Rwanda in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical. Stationed in the mountains, she shadows a family of gorillas—the last of their group to survive the merciless assault of local poachers. Max bears a striking gift for communicating with the apes. But soon the precarious freedom of both is threatened as a violent rebel group from the nearby Congo draws close. Told in alternating perspectives that interweave the two characters and their fates, Audrey Schulman's newest novel deftly confronts the struggle between progress and preservation, idiosyncrasy and acceptance. Evoking both Barbara Kingsolver and Andrea Barrett, this enthralling fiction, wise and generous, explores some of the crucial social and cultural challenges that, over the years, have come to shape our world. The engaging story and memorable characters make this fine novel an ideal book club selection.
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Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Pennsylvania |
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Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : John Augustus Smull |
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Total Pages | : 938 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Pennsylvania |
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Total Pages | : 1098 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Pennsylvania |
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Total Pages | : 1108 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Business |
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Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1908 |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
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Author | : David Meyer |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1772822639 |
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An ethnographic and documentary study of the subsistence-settlement patterns and social organization of the Red Earth Cree of east central Saskatchewan with particular emphasis upon a “deme” (discrete intermarriage arrangement) they shared with the Shoal Lake Cree. The author argues that demes are characteristic of hunter-gatherers but that environment, the events of the contact period, and modern government have disrupted its practice among Northern Algonkians.