A Book of Migrations

  • A Book of Migrations
    By Rebecca Solnit

    On a little glass shelf above the chimp, the lacy bones of a tiny white-handed gibbon's upright and humanlike skeleton presided, like a fanged angel with arms that reached its ankles. The suspension of the human skeleton gave visible ...

  • A Book of Migrations
    By Rebecca Solnit

    ... of Roddy Doyle's novels. It was the city's central artery, the Liffey, that held my attention, though, and I found a version of it in stone on the walls of the Custom House. Enormously long, gleamingly white, and heavily adorned ...

  • A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
    By Rebecca Solnit

    The author describes her experiences traveling in Ireland, and shares her impressions of the countryside

  • A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
    By Rebecca Solnit

    Recounts the author's travels in Ireland, with reflections on the microcosm of Irish history, with its invasions, colonization, emigration, nomadism, and tourism

  • A Book of Migrations
    By Rebecca Solnit

    A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism.