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On Migration - by Ruth Padel (Paperback)

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  • "Life began with migration.
  • About the Author: Ruth Padel is a British poet and writer devoted to conservation, music and Greece.
  • 272 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Industries

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About the Book



Originally published: Great Britain: Chatto & Windus, 2012.



Book Synopsis



"Life began with migration." In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and sustained by migration.

"We're all from somewhere else," she begins. "Migration builds civilization but also causes displacement." From the Holy Family's Flight into Egypt, the Lost Colony on Roanoke, and the famous photograph 'Migrant Mother', Padel turns to John James Audubon's journey from Haiti and France, heirlooms carried through Ellis Island, Kennedy's "society of immigrants" and Casa del Migrante on the Mexican border.

But she reaches the human story through the millennia-old journeys of cells in our bodies, trees in the Ice Age, Monarch butterflies travelling from Alaska to Mexico. As warblers battle hurricanes over the Caribbean and wildebeest brave a river filled with the largest crocodiles in Africa, she shows that the truest purpose of migration for both humans and animals is survival.



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"On Migration: Dangerous Journeys and the Living World presents a beautiful fusion of Padel's prose and her poetry. . .[She] writes masterfully in both forms, and both should be read to grasp the book's dexterity. . .The poems underscore that she's technically nimble enough to write as successfully in the voice of a ship's barnacle as in the voice of an Ellis Island immigrant."--Weekly Alibi



About the Author



Ruth Padel is a British poet and writer devoted to conservation, music and Greece. She has published a novel, eight poetry collections including a lyric biography of her great great grandfather Charles Darwin, and eight works of non-fiction including a firsthand account of wild tiger conservation. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Council Member for the Zoological Society of London, and writes and presents BBC Radio 4's Poetry Workshop. She lives in London.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.8 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .65 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Industries
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Ruth Padel
Language: English
Street Date: September 9, 2014
TCIN: 1011234540
UPC: 9781619024335
Item Number (DPCI): 247-15-3087
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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