[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Brian's teaching
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:29:40 -0800
Actually, I m not with the University of Iowa anymore -- that is, I am not
teaching there right now. I currently work for the U. S. Department of
Education. I am a U-Iowa alum, however, and I taught both Spanish and
History there, as well as completing my master's in education, a teaching
credential, and most of my doctorate (which I am still working on, which is
why I still have the U-Iowa address).
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 5:22 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] OT: Brian's teaching
> 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
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
> > > and Judson, guiding golden
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> > > Carolyn Alexander
> > >
> > > ----- 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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