[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Brian's teaching
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:42:52 -0400
Brian,
Thank you for not taking umbrage at my chutzpah and for your answer. I have a
problem with remembering Names (blame MS or age or a lazy mind. I could not
think of Frnklin's name and for some reason I never remember Scott's name and I
have seen loads of programs on him and his various exlorations and
competitions. I am sure there are many members of BookShare who would love your
books. It seems other than children'ts books I hear more discussions on
history and people therein than any specific area of reading. We all like to
find books for our to-be-read lists. Now if there were only world enough and
time enough.
Amy
still seeking Queen Beruthiel's cats
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Miller
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 7:40 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Brian's teaching
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
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----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
To: 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" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 <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" <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
>> > > > juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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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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