[bookshare-discuss] OT: Brian's teaching
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
I see you're at the U of Iowa. What do you teach?
Recently there was a program on either the History or
the Discovery Channel about a group of late 19th or
early 20th-century explorers who were trying to find a
passage through the Arctic from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and got stuck. It sounds somewhat
similar--maybe that's where the novelist got his idea.
Unfortunately, there were no survivors from that
expedition.
Cindy
--- Brian Miller <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Shellie, this one is especially terrific -- I
> used to teach a course
> on arctic exploration, and I wish I had this novel
> when I taught as I would
> have added it to my reading list.
>
> Brian Miller
>
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> From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 2:00 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted:
> Afterlands
>
>
> > That one sounds really good.
> > You always pick some great stuff.
> >
> > Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 12:33 PM
> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Just Submitted:
> Afterlands
> >
> >
> > All,
> > I have just submitted for validation the
> following:
> >
> > Afterlands, a novel, by Steve Heighton, Haughton
> Mifflin, 2005, pp 400.
> >
> > >From the book jacket:
> >
> > THIS GRIPPING NOVEL OF ARCTIC survival, is based
> on one of the most
> > remarkable events in polar exploration. In 1871,
> off the coast of
> Greenland,
> > nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the
> Arctic explorer USS
> > Polaris, were cast adrift on a large ice floe as
> their ship began to
> > founder. Afterlands is the story of this small
> society of castaways a
> white
> > and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a
> Swede, an Englishman, and
> two
> > Inuit families as they try to survive a six-month
> winter ordeal,
> struggling
> > with the harsh elements and with one another, the
> group splintering into
> > factions along ethnic and national lines.
> >
> > Steven Heighten provocatively fills in the blanks
> of the documented
> history
> > of this event by focusing on the suspicions, the
> hunger-induced delusions,
> > and the unrequited longings among three members of
> the group: Roland
> Kruger,
> > an educated, witty, rebellious German seaman;
> Tukulito, or "Hannah," the
> > party's Inuit interpreter; and George Tyson, the
> American ranking officer,
> > who later wrote an account of the experience that
> solidified his
> reputation
> > as a hero while casting Kruger as the villain.
> Throughout the novel,
> > Heighten incorporates passages from Tyson's
> contentious account, then
> > daringly imagines the aftermath of the ordeal,
> following Kruger, Tukulito,
> > and Tyson as they attempt to move beyond their
> searing memories and resume
> > their lives in the larger world.
> >
> > Combining the high drama of Arctic survival and
> the psychological
> intensity
> > of modern theater, this beautifully written novel
> powerfully addresses
> > themes of belonging, nationalism, and love in
> times of crisis.
> >
> > ***
> >
> > This is an awesome book, and I hope someone picks
> it up soon.
> >
> > Brian Miller
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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