AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Tad Lewin. Lothrop, $16 (48p) ISBN 0-688-12161-8
High-spirited and continent-hopping, this keenly observed tour of six world-famous marketplaces takes an everyday experience as an occasion to explore ethnic diversity. In Uganda, barefoot people walk to market "through the rain forest beneath the Mountains of the Moon," while at New York's Fulton Fish Market, "hard men in rubber boots...yell and argue ill the artificial day of fluorescent lights." The vigor of a Moroccan market is rivaled only by the "kicking, biting, and screaming" in the donkey parking lot. Lewin (Peppe the Lamplighter) photographs his …