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Horizon's Lens: My Time on the Turning World
In a lyrical memoir and meditation on the nature of time and place, Elizabeth Dodd explores a variety of landscapes, reading the records left by inhabitants and by time itself. In spring in the Yucatán peninsula, she marks the equinox among the ruins of the Maya. In summer in the Orkney Islands, she considers linguistic and historic connections with Icelandic sagas. In tal...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
September 1st 2012
by University of Nebraska Press
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I enjoyed this book immensely and on a number of different levels. Although it was written by an academic and published by an academic press, reading it was quite a different experience than what I've typically encountered in books issuing from this source. In fact, I would go so far as to conjecture that, if there were more books of this quality being published, academic presses would likely not be in their current difficult situation.
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