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Landscapes of Silence - From Childhood to the Arctic (Hardcover, Main)
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Landscapes of Silence - From Childhood to the Arctic (Hardcover, Main)
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This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist
and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal
memory and distant landscapes: childhood in England in the shadow
of the Second World War, the Derbyshire hills, a kibbutz in Israel
and the deep Canadian Arctic. Growing up on the outskirts of
Sheffield, Hugh Brody ate roast beef and Yorkshire pudding but was
always given to understand that the real, the perfect food came
from his mother's home, Vienna. He attended Hebrew classes three
times each week but was sent off to a Church of England boarding
school. Conflicted and bewildered, he sought places to which he
could escape - but everywhere he discovered deep and troubling
silences. He takes us on his first journeys to the Arctic, a world
so far removed from anything he had known as to be a chance to
learn, all over again, what it can mean to be alive. As he reveals,
the realities of the far north were a joy, but even there he found
abuses of the people and the land - and voices that were deeply
silenced by the forces of colonialism. In these landscapes, human
well-being appears to be both possible and impossible. Yet in
memory, in the land, in the defiance of silence, Hugh Brody sees a
profound humanity - as well as hope.
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