By Mike NewellXoxox Press, 2008
Working on seasonal wildfires in the 1970’s and 1980’s across Alaskan tundra and mountain ranges, wildland firefighter Mike Newell developed a deep appreciation for an arctic and subarctic landscape whose scale dwarfs all human effort. Returning each fire season, Newell found himself increasingly transfixed by the primal allure of the [...]
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Does the Land Remember Me: A Memoir of Palestine
Posted in Memoir, Middle East on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Aziz Shihab
Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns from Texas to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier. He finds an Israeli-occupied land no longer the one of his youth. This gripping book chronicles his month-long journey to capture a piece of the land that [...]
