Examines the events, trends, personalities, and politics in Guyana and in California that enabled Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple to flourish and to enact a bizarre mass death.
Mem and her mother see it as a journey to nowhere since there won't be any houses or neighbors, just endless forest. Their journey is filled with the uncertain danger of wild animals, raging storms, and cruel strangers.
'Journey to Nowhere puts faces and real-life circumstances on all the statistics that you read about but that remain abstract to a lot of people. It doesn't really tell you...
Journey to Nowhere
"In the spring of 1939 six-year-old Eva Unger [now Figes, author] came to settle in London. Her middle-class Jewish family had managed to escape Nazi Germany, leaving behind friends, relatives...
Journey to Nowhere
Journey to Nowhere