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Away from It All.(Solomon Time; Among Stone Giants; Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded)(Book Review)
When Hurricane Zoe hit the Solomon Islands last December, it took several days before anyone could reach the most remote islands, Tikopia and Anuda, to assess the damage. But isolation this extreme was precisely what the former high-school teacher Will Randall sought on Randuvu, where he taught the islanders to raise chickens. Randall narrates his agrarian adventure in Solomon Time (Scribner), during which he happily fell into a pace of life that he says makes "schedules and timetables become irrelevancies, arrangements, meetings, deadlines inconsequential.”
The romance of the remote also seems to have infected Katherine Routledge, who, in 1914, became one of the first archeologists to investigate Easter Island. Among Stone Giants (Scribner), Jo Anne Van Tilburg's biography of Routledge, tells how the island's statues provoked her to rapturous imaginings of the ...
- ` Krakatoa: Day the World Exploded' by Simon Winchester; HarperCollins ($25.95).
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) April 21, 2003 700+ words
...percussive name, Krakatoa, that pretty much ceased to be in a single day. Simon Winchester's ``Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded'' takes a long time to get to that day. It doesn't follow the disaster-tale formula perfected by ``Into Thin Air...
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, 27 August 1883.(Brief Article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review December 1, 2003 700+ words
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, 27 August 1883. Simon Winchester. Viking. [pounds sterling]16.99. 432 pages. ISBN 0-670-91126-7. The eruption...
- One way to dig a hole; Volcanoes.('Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded--August...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 29, 2003 700+ words
...in the sort of aside that makes this book such a pleasure, is made from the sap of a tree, Isonandra GUTTA, which is found in Borneo, Java and Sumatra. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded--August 27, 1883. By Simon Winchester.
- THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANDPAS TOGETHER; Camillus vet still misses Bobby, the...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) May 25, 2009 700+ words
...smiled. They kept going. Andy walked into a patch of heavy brush. He had just gotten down to crawl beneath it when "the world exploded," as Andy puts it. The North Vietnamese had opened up their guns. In that instant, all childhood fantasies were gone...
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Science News April 5, 2003 700+ words
SIMON WINCHESTER More than 40,000 people perished as a result of the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Java nearly 125 years ago. Most of these people were killed as a result of the giant tsunamis it triggered. The blast was so intense that people felt it thousands of miles away. Pumice from
- Silent tribute Today, a city remembers the day its world exploded
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel KATHERINE M. SKIBA April 19, 1996 700+ words
Across the United States, Americans will pause in silence today in memory of those killed in the terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. It will be a profound silence because for some, the 366 days past have held little peace. The explosives delivered in a 24-foot truck did more than
- Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable...
- Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific Wozniak, Joan A. September 22, 2005 700+ words
Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge...van Tilburg, the author of Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge...scientific treatise of her studies. Among Stone Giants is not that book. Instead, van Tilburg...
- STALKED BY ALLSTATE: BEING AN AGENT FOR THE GIANT INSURER CAN BE TOUGH - EVEN...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 12, 1995 700+ words
...Texas Department of Insurance that the company was violating state laws that protect consumers from discrimination, his world exploded. With the flick of a computer switch, Allstate took away all his business. He was stalked and chased by private eyes...
