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Far and away reporting from the brink of change : seven continents, twenty-five years

Psychologist, lecturer and activist Andrew Solomon's essays about places undergoing seismic political and cultural shifts, around the globe and across a generation. A testament to the importance of travel and bearing witness, they encompass South Africa and Brazil, China and Romania, Guatemala and t...

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Main Author: Solomon, Andrew, 1963- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2016.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Social change.
Social movements.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dispatches from everywhere
  • The winter palettes
  • Three days in August
  • Young Russia's defiant decadence
  • Their irony, humor (and art) can save China
  • The artists of South Africa: separate, and equal
  • Vlady's conquests
  • "Don't mess with our cultural patrimony!"
  • On each palette, a choice of political colors
  • Sailing to Byzantium
  • Enchanting Zambia
  • Phaly Nuon's three steps
  • The open spaces of Mongolia
  • Inventing the conversation
  • Naked, covered in ram's blood, drinking a Coke, and feeling pretty good
  • An awakening after the Taliban
  • Museum without walls
  • Song of Solomons
  • Children of bad memories
  • Circle of fire: letter from Libya
  • All the food in China
  • Outward opulence for inner peace: the Qianlong Garden of Retirement
  • Adventures in Antarctica
  • When everyone signs
  • Rio, city of hope
  • In bed with the president of Ghana?
  • Gay, Jewish, mentally ill, and a sponsor of gypsies in Romania
  • Myanmar's moment
  • Lost at the surface.

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