false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178049735m/753313.jpg 753313 7 No one limns the opposing pull of inner and outer worlds more eloquently than Andrea Barrett. Her naturalists, explorers, scientists, and healers are driven to work and above all to <I>know</I>; they categorize, theorize, and collect the phenomena of the natural world with an urgency that feels like physical need. But they are motivated equally by desire and loneliness, and the theme of domestic life runs like a countermelody through each of the six lovely, deeply memorable stories in <I>Servants of the Map</I>. The narrator of the title story, a cartographer in the Grand Trigonometrical Survey of India, is a timid, home- and family-loving man, but the Himalayas strike him with the force of a revelation. The heroine of the lyrical "Theories of Rain" is a creature of strong feelings and appetites, driven to ask questions about the world around her in the same spirit as she longs for a neighbor and mourns the brother separated from her in childhood. Her scientific curiosity is scarcely different from her desire: "Through that channel of longing, the world enters me." <p> Fans of Barrett's earlier books (the sublime <I>Ship Fever</I> and <I>Voyage of the Narwhal</I>) will delight in tracing the stories and characters that wind in and out of these three books, producing the sense of something lovely, ongoing, and whole. In the final story, Elizabeth finds consolation in her work caring for tubercular patients--"as if, in the order and precarious harmony of this house and those it shelters she might, for all that gets lost in this life, at last have found a cure." The same might be said of science, and of Barrett's art. <I>--Mary Park</I> 92273 1902 Servants of the Map: Stories total:231|5:67|4:104|3:46|2:10|1:4| 231 913 356 39 753313 0393323579 9780393323573 193 32 3.95 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178049735m/753313.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/753313.Servants_of_the_Map_Stories 3 2 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Wed Nov 21 06:59:37 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 07:00:16 -0800 2007 Servants of the Map was a recommendation from here - if so, thanks to whoever mentioned it!

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