[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Brian's teaching
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:47:57 -0400
I know my brother's sub, in 2004 went rhough the Panama Canal not around the
Northwest passage.
But for most of the time he had no idea where they were.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
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From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:34 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Brian's teaching
Hi Tom,
I knew someone would bring this up -- traveling under the ice is pretty
amazing, but not the same as traversing the passage via waterways and ice
choked straights above at the surface. Also, the history of the arctic sub
adventures is, sadly, likely to remain classified for many years, so we may
never know the full extent of this phase of human exploration.
Brian Miller
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:53 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Brian's teaching
> Hi Brian,
>
> The bit about only seven through the northwest passage isn't really
> all that accurate.
> Nuclear Subs travel routinely from New London, Charleston, Norfolk,
> etc. to the Bering Sea, and hang out, under the Arctic ice cap.
>
> Dave
>
> At 06:40 PM 3/19/2007, you wrote:
> >Amundsen was also the first expedition leader to take a team to the
> >South Pole, beating Robert Falcon Scott's team by over a month, and
> >also surviving, unlike Scott.
> >
> >You can read about it in the incredible book I submitted to
> >Bookshare called, The Last Place on Earth, by Rolland Huntford --
> >it's dual biography of both Scott and Amundsen.
> >
> >The most famous ill-fated expedition in search of the northwest
> >passage was the Sir John Franklin effort of the 1845 which resulted
> >in every one of 129 men dieing. It was the moonshot of the 19th
> >century. Ironically, there have been eight successful voyages to
> >the moon, only seven through the northwest passage.
> >
> >I have a pretty extensive collection of books on arctic exploration
> >which I suppose I could submit if folks are keen.
> >
> >Brian Miller
> >00
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <mailto:agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Amy Goldring Tajalli
> >To:
<mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 4:06 AM
> >Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Brian's teaching
> >
> >Cindy,
> >
> >I am not Brian (obviously) but happen to notice this so thought I
> >would save some time; Look in Wikipedia under Northwest Passage and
> >you will find Amundsen as the one (first?) who succeeded and a list
> >of those who failed and died and/or lived. He also flew over the
> >North Pole (first) in an airship piloted by Umberto Nobile and the
> >two fueded about who should have gotten credit for that
> >accomplishment as Amundsen was the head of that expedition. You may
> >be familiar with part of that Story from the movie The Red Tent. I
> >am sure Brian will give you a more concise answer - you know I tend
> >to give much too much - but I could spend a week in Wikipedia just
> >with those two or following everything in the section on the
> >"Northwest Passage" and another month following connections from
> >there. Have fun.
> >
> >Amy
> >
> >P.S. Do get The Red Tent. It is a marvelous movie and as far as I
> >can tell or heard it is not far from the history.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Grandma Cindy"
<<mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> >To:
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> >Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:06 AM
> >Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Brian's teaching
> >
> > > Interesting. What us your dissertation on.
> > >
> > > Cindy
> > >
> > > --- Brian Miller
> > <<mailto:brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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"
> > <<mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> To:
> >
<<mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>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
> > <<mailto:brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>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"
> > >> <<mailto:juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> > > To:
> >
<<mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>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
> > >> > > > <mailto:juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> > > > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> > >> > > > Graduate Alumni Association Board
> > >> > > > <http://www.guidedogs.com>www.guidedogs.com
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
> > >> > > > Puppies are the joy at one end.
> > >> > > > Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
> > >> > > > Carolyn Alexander
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> > > > From: "Brian Miller"
> > >> <<mailto:brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> > > > To:
> >
<<mailto:bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>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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