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Cargando... Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropicspor Alexander Frater
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An interesting account of travels through countries located in the tropics. Starting with Vanuatu where the author was born. Could be used for Vanuatu in a read-the-world challenge, which is useful because it's both more available and easier to engage with than Grace Mera Molisa's [b:Black Stone|4444929|Black Stone|Grace Mera Molisa|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1220260722s/4444929.jpg|4493140], the only other ni-Vanuatu book I've found. Pretty much what it says--tales from the tropics, not so much a memoir as little memoirs, or pensees, or recollections. The book is framed by stories of bells associated with his grandfather's church. More stories than not take place in or around Vanuatu; others range farther afield. Some of Frater's travels were for work, some for pleasure, and some the circumstances of his birth and family life. Some chapters cohere more effectively than others; some seem very loosely constructed. It's sometimes languid, sometimes torpid. Read a chapter at a time, in a hammock. When the book arrived in the mail months ago, I skimmed through it, thinking "hmmm ... looks like it might be kinda dull" and put it aside. I was wrong. There was potential for a real dragged out story, had Frater confined himself to Vanuatu (the South Seas nation where he was born and raised - his father and grandfather were missionaries there). However, he does fully succeed in tying-in his experiences in other Torrid locations (Africa, Burma, etc.) along the way such that the parts make the intended whole. When this book is good it's fascinating, and when it's not quite up there, it's at least interesting. Highly recommended. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Part memoir, part travelogue, Tales From the Torrid Zone is rooted in his birthplace, the tiny tropical republic of Vanuatu, where Alexander Frater's father ran the hospital and his mother, in her front garden, built the first school. From this obscure South Seas group he ranges over the hot, wet, beautiful swathe of the world that has haunted him ever since - he dines with a Tongan queen in a leper colony, makes his way across tropical Africa (and two civil wars) in a forty-four year-old flying boat, delivers a new church bell to a remote Oceanian island, and visits scores of countries to learn about their history, politics, medicine, flora, and fauna (including the remarkable role of the coconut in tropical life). But, as becomes plain, the torrid zone is not just a geographical phenomenon, it's also a state of mind."--BOOK JACKET. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)910.913History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel History, geographic treatment, biography - Discovery. exploration Geography of and travel in areas, regions, places in general Torrid ZonesClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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