"Life began with migration." In a magnificent tapestry of life on
the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion,
wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and
sustained by migration.
"We're all from somewhere else," she begins. "Migration builds
civilization but also causes displacement." From the Holy Family's
Flight into Egypt, the Lost Colony on Roanoke, and the famous
photograph 'Migrant Mother', Padel turns to John James Audubon's
journey from Haiti and France, heirlooms carried through Ellis
Island, Kennedy's "society of immigrants" and Casa del Migrante on
the Mexican border.
But she reaches the human story through the millennia-old journeys
of cells in our bodies, trees in the Ice Age, Monarch butterflies
travelling from Alaska to Mexico. As warblers battle hurricanes
over the Caribbean and wildebeest brave a river filled with the
largest crocodiles in Africa, she shows that the truest purpose of
migration for both humans and animals is survival.
General
| Imprint: |
Counterpoint
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2014 |
| First published: |
September 2014 |
| Authors: |
Ruth Padel
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-61902-433-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-61902-433-0 |
| Barcode: |
9781619024335 |
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