[bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: Brian's teaching
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:06:13 -0400
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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>> > > > 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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