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A history charm.(Literature)
MOMENTS ARRIVE WHEN, half-a-dream, we bump against a vivid thing that tantalises as it pleases. Whether it is a saintly face in a crowd, or a finely wrought work of imagination, I suggest the actual movement in the mind is the same. Attraction to the thing-as-given incites our trust that its undisclosed parts beckon us towards the good, the rich. In other words we are charmed.
Such was my experience, for instance, on the first occasion I fitted mask and snorkel, then flippered into the thoroughfares and alleys of a coral reef. Apart from the occasional oink and bubble of my suppressed breath, the experience was entirely to do with visual charm. I beheld the ...
- HISTORIAN REFLECTS ON HER LIFE THAT MAY BE...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) August 3, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Mary Abel Tiger's Eye: A Memoir By Inga Clendinnen. Scribner, 304 pages, $24. Grade: B Inga Clendinnen, Australia...childhood memories. CAPTION(S): Photo Book Cover / TIGER'S EYE: A MEMOIR
- Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Keary, Anne December 22, 2006 700+ words
...Australians at First Contact, by Inga Clendinnen. Cambridge, Cambridge University...cloth), $21.99 US (paper). Inga Clendinnen's Dancing with Strangers: Europeans...her practiced anthropological eyes on the cross-cultural history...
- PAPAERBACKS. (book review)
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Mckay, Carla January 25, 2002 700+ words
Byline: CARLA MCKAY Tiger's Eye by Inga Clendinnen (Vintage, [pound]7.99) TEN years ago the Australian scholar Inga Clendinnen fell ill in her early 50s. It started with bleeding gums and ended up with her, all but lifeless, waiting...
- American Pentimento: the Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Journal of World History Horna, Hernan June 1, 2004 700+ words
...what was fair, legal, or illegal in the eyes of God. They were God-fearing people...mermaids, and people with tails and one eye. According to the protocols and diaries...the skepticism of the Mayanist historian Inga Clendinnen about supposed Mayan
- AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - MAY 11, 2001.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News May 11, 2001 700+ words
...schoolboys charged after home invasion in Cabramatta; Tiger's Eye wins Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers. - NAB interim...is still creating more jobs, but not fast enough; Writer Inga Clendinnen recounts her experiences dealing with liver disease; New...
- John Cameron (ed.), Changing Places: re-imagining Australia.(Changing Places:...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Campbell, T.W. December 1, 2004 700+ words
...do not help. In May 2004 the noted historian and author Dr Inga Clendinnen visited the Australian National University, Canberra. Dr...language that quickly brought an unhealthy glaze over the eyes. Reading the book certainly was not a pleasure. Essayists...
- Mistakes.(War Sonnets)(Poem)
- Magazine article from: Arena Magazine Hill, Barry April 1, 2005 700+ words
...Mistakes We have to ask ourselves, would we have done it? Inga Clendinnen 1 My love said don't kill it in the kitchen. I almost thought...2 More effective was my next press to its quiet neck, Its eyes stretching to a slit as I wished for a dog that, (I understand...
- Telling Lies about Hitler--The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial....
- Magazine article from: Capital & Class McCulloch, Andrew March 22, 2003 700+ words
...libelled--that is defamed, lowered in the esteem in the eyes of that legal fiction, the reasonable man--are in a strong...achieve his terrible aims. Another chink is suggested by Inga Clendinnen: 'There are many difficulties in the way of understanding...
