Americans have always been a people on the move. Journeys in Time maps twenty journeys that have shaped our national past. These are stories of change -- of pilgrims and pioneers, soldiers and children, explorers and adventurers building new lives and finding new worlds. From a cabin boy who sailed with Columbus to a Union soldier and a young migrant farm worker, these journeys changed the lives of those who took them.
Best Books of 2016 BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTIC From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel—a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last century. James Gleick delivers a mind-bending exploration of time travel—from its origins in literature and science to its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick vividly explores physics, technology, philosophy, and art as each relates to time travel and tells the story of the concept's cultural evolutions—from H.G. Wells to Doctor Who, from Proust to Woody Allen. He takes a close look at the porous boundary between science fiction and modern physics, and, finally, delves into what it all means in our own moment in time—the world of the instantaneous, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.
Gives details of the four past lives that the author remembers most clearly and explains how she has tried to trace them all. In particular she remembers a life in Japan, which she has desperately sought to verify and uncover.
Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Shortly after her husband’s death, Blackburn became fascinated with Doggerland, the stretch of land that once connected Great Britain to Continental Europe but is now subsumed by the North Sea. She was driven to explore the lives of the people who lived there—studying its fossil record, as well as human artifacts that have been unearthed near the area. In Time Song, Blackburn brings us along on her journey to discover what Doggerland left behind, introducing us to the paleontologists, archaeologists, fishermen and fellow Doggerland enthusiasts she meets along the way. She sees the footprints of early humans fossilized in the soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand years ago. She visits a cave where the remnants of a Neanderthal meal have turned to stone. In Denmark she sits beside Tollund Man, who seems to be about to wake from a dream, even though he had lain in a peat bog since the start of the Iron Age. As Doggerland begins to come into focus, what emerges is a profound meditation on time, a sense of infinity as going backward and an intimation of the immensity of everything that has already passed through its time on earth and disappeared.
In this fascinating book, Hubbell journeys into the remarkable lives of the little-known creatures that really run the world--the animals without backbones, including one of the most elusive and enigmatic of all, "Aphrodite" the sea mouse.
Journeys is a collection of poems written between 1974 and 2019. The poems are personal in nature and take readers on an interesting journey through time. Journeys represent the past, the present, and the future. This anthology is intended to captivate its readers by taking them on a journey that begins in the ghettos of Bull Bay, Jamaica, and ends up (for now) miles away in the creative capital of the world—Providence, Rhode Island. Journeys will captivate its readers by bringing the richness of one woman’s desire to escape the ravages of poverty. Journeys delve deeply into love, hope, resilience, wanting, and everything in between. It has a rich Caribbean feel that lures readers to the exotic paradise island of Jamaica with white-sand beaches to the harsh realities that are not advertised (race, class, and violence). Journeys’ highlight sheds light on issues of race, gender, and class among other social constructs. The book glimpses into the black woman’s experience and her constant struggle and fight to use her voice and to be heard amidst the noise. Every poem in Journeys is sure to either soothe readers’ soul or prick their social conscience to activism for social justice. Journeys will not disappoint readers. The poems are happy, sad, lonely, and hopeful. They draw from the poet’s lived experiences as a young girl growing up on the island to that of a mother, wife, sister, friend, teacher, and legislator. Journeys will inspire readers everywhere. It will provide support, affirmation, guidance, consolation, and laughter. Journeys is a work of the heart and a timeless treasure that everyone should have in their collection.
Journeys is a sampling of the poetry of Virgil Zee. His poems will take you into the realms of imagination and fantasy as well as deep within the heart, soul, and mind.
