Established by Elda Unruh in memory of her husband, John D. Read this book together with We, the Navigators by David Lewis.At their winter meeting, the Bluffton University Board of Trustees approved new endowed scholarships and worked on best practices for governing the institution. Without charts, compasses, sextants, printed logs, or prior knowledge of the existence of places like Hawaii, Polynesians navigated the "empty space" of the Pacific with breathtaking expertise. This book is an exploration and celebration of the seamanship and navigational technologies of Polynesian people. Voyage of Rediscovery: A Cultural Odyssey Through Polynesia by Ben Finney (1994). Snyder's account is both a staggering indictment and an eloquent elegy. Many people in the West remain innocent of the full horror of World War II because they know little of what happened in Eastern Europe. Pyne's far-ranging intelligence is perfectly at home in a land where many visitors, faced with the vast stillness, continue to hope for more animation.įisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea by Anna Badkhen (2018).īadkhen's chronicle of the time she spent crewing on fishing vessels in Joal, a village on the coast of Senegal, is a broadly aware, wise, and deeply sensitive evocation of the trouble gathering on the horizons of this and other obscure places.īloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (2010). Pyne (1986).įor me, this is the most learned, insightful, and engaging history of Antarctica. The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. The encounter reshaped Arsenyev's life and thinking and emphasizes there is more to local geography than the visitor can easily see. This memoir, which was made into a movie by Akira Kurosawa in 1975, tells the story of a respectful encounter between a Russian officer and an indigenous resident of Russia's far east.
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