Andrey Nabatchikov Nabatchikov itibaren Koppampatti, Tamil Nadu 621012, Hindistan itibaren Koppampatti, Tamil Nadu 621012, Hindistan

Bunun gerçekten iyi bir kurgu parçası olduğunu düşündüm, biraz muhteşem ama Amerikan yaşamı ve göç olgusunun çok basit bir analizi değil.

Charles Lyell, the father of modern Geology (although I disagree). Lyell was the student of James Hutton and through them the uniformitarianism vs catastrophism argument was born. Lyell is incredibally important to modern sciences and Sir Charles Darwin himself states in "The Origin of the Species" that if you have not read Lyell's book, to immediately put down Origin and read Principles first. Without Lyell's concept of Deep Time (or geologic time) evolution (and all of geology for that matter) cannot exist

I love all of Jane Austen's works. Each time I read one of her novels, I find something new. My favorite is either Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion.

The tragic story of a kid and his way through life.

weird but good lol

This is a far more complex and subtle book than I gave it credit for when I began to read. Fifty Miles from Tomorrow starts out as an almost run-of-the-mill memoir (albeit about growing up Iñupiat in Alaska), yet ultimately it becomes a multi-layered examination of cultural protection and change. Hensley grew up practicing the subsistence patterns that had existed among his people, the Iñupiat, for thousands of years, but ultimately left Alaska to go to high school in Tennessee, to attend college in Washington, D.C., and to lobby for the rights of Native Alaskans to control the land they had never ceded to the federal government. As a state representative, lobbyist, and legislator among the Inuit's own four-nation federation, Hensley became adept at working the system, at recognizing the webs of Western political power and using them to protect Native land. Ultimately, however, he turned his attention to protecting Iñupiat language, culture, and spiritual practice, believing that land meant little if there was no culture to flourish upon it. ( In one of the deftest moments of the book, his spelling of all his relatives' names shifts from English-Iñupiat to Iñupiat alone, just as he articulates his hope to see his culture revived. It's a beautiful touch.) This would be a wonderful book to team with Vine Deloria's The Trail of Broken Treaties, or other memoirs / prescriptions for Native survival to come out of the 1960s. Hensley's path is different, yet fueled by many of the same desires articulated by Native activists in the lower 48. It's incredible to consider the way in which BIA boarding schools not only denied students knowledge of their *own* culture, but of a wider Native experience at the hands of the federal government - denying, in concrete terms, Hensley and his fellow generation of Native Alaskans an understanding that they were not the first to fight the battles they faced, nor alone in refusing to let their culture die. A great book.

I read this because Paul Auster and Jonathan Lethem both love him. I didn't quite see what all the hype was about, though the book did have its moments.