On Migration: Dangerous Journeys and the Living World

by Ruth Padel

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"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', she...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1619021951

ISBN13:9781619021952

Release Date:August 2013

Publisher:Counterpoint LLC

Length:254 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.8" x 8.2"

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