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Buy this book on-line PADEL,RUTH: : THE MARA CROSSING.[Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2012. ISBN 9780701185558.
UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn but author's ink dedication+signature: 'For all migrants - Ruth Padel' to the title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Maggie Li,illustrated dw/dj and inner flaps,with white,blue and green lettering to front,white+brown lettering to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue eps.UK, small 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2-254pp [paginated] includes 11 sections/chapters inclues mixture of both poetry and prose, plus [unpaginated] half-title page,SIGNED title page,dedication,contents list/table, acknowledgements,title separator page,a poem (Ripples on New Grass),and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.
Home is where you start from,but where is a swallow's real home? And what does 'native' mean if the English oak is an immigrant from Spain?
In ninety richly varied poems and illuminating prose interludes,Ruth Padel's original new book weaves science,myth,wild nature and human history to conjure a world created and sustained by migration. 'We're all from somewhere else,' she begins,tracing the millennia-old journeys of cells,trees,birds and beasts.Geese battle raging winds over Mount Everest, lemurs skim precipices in Madagascar and wildebeest,at the climax of their epic trek from Tanzania,brave a river filled with the largest,hungriest crocodiles in Africa.
Human migration has shaped civilisation but today is one of the greatest challenges the world faces.In a series of incisive portraits,Padel turns to the struggles of human displacement - the Flight into Egypt,John James Audubon emigrating to America (feeding migrant birds on route),migrant workers in Mumbai and refugees labouring over a drastically changing planet - to show how the purpose of migration,for both humans and animals, is survival.
Poignant,though-provoking and utterly compelling,here is a magnificent tapestry of life on the move from the acclaimed author of 'Darwin: A Life in Poems'.
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