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
> > > > Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> > > > Graduate Alumni Association Board
> > > > 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"
> <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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