Spirit Bird Journey

by Sarah Milledge Nelson

Book Overview

Sarah Nelson's teaching novel follows Clara, a Korean-American archaeologist, to an excavation in her ancestral homeland. The story recounts her experiences as a field archaeologist and as a young... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967579805
• ISBN13: 9780967579801
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

An insight provoking book

It is an interesting book. Even though Nelson is non-Korean, her imagination is not too far off from what I would say about the fictional life of prehistoric life of Korea. The book covers different era of prehistoric Korea. If you are associated with Korea in anyway, it will give you some difficult-to-get imagination what true Koreans could have been. Or your non-Korean girl,boy-friend will benefit a lot from it.

A Beautiful First Novel

This first novel by the distinguished archeologist is a wonderfully crafted narrative about roots, identity, ethnicity, humanism, and more. Both the frame story and the neolithic interior one flow back and forth seamlessly and render the themes timeless. The inside look at archeology as a vocation and the vivid descriptions of Korea, now and in neolithic times, and of the archeological sites and artefacts further enhance the value to the reader. Prof. Nelson has a great deal to tell us both about the past and also the road toward a hopeful future that can can embrace at once diversity and universal personhood.