On Migration: Dangerous Journeys and the Living World

by Ruth Padel

Book Overview

"Life began with migration." In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and sustained by migration.

'We're all from somewhere else, ' she begins. "Migration builds civilization but also causes displacement." From the Holy Family's Flight into Egypt, the Lost Colony on Roanoke and the famous photograph 'Migrant Mother', she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619021951
• ISBN13: 9781619021952
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.2"