Stanfords Children’s Book of the Month for August 2022 is The Accidental Stowaway by Judith Eagle.
By the celebrated author of The Pear Affair and The Secret Starling – Patch finds adventure on every deck of the ‘floating palace’ she accidentally stows away on.
Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes: childhood in the Derbyshire hills in the shadow of the Second World War, a kibbutz in Israel and, eventually, the Canadian Arctic.
Conflicted and bewildered by the silence created by his concealed family history, he sought places to which he could escape. Yet everywhere he discovered deep and troubling silences, until he reached the High Arctic, a world far removed from anything he had known. It became a chance to learn, all over again, what it can mean to be alive – yet, even here, he encountered voices that had been silenced by the forces of colonialism.
In defiance of silence, Hugh Brody discovers, through memory and the land, a profound humanity – as well as hope.
Here is an extract from Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic by Hugh Brody:
Continue reading Extract: Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic by Hugh BrodyStanfords Book of the Month for November 2021 is Allegorizings by Jan Morris.
Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris’ Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the Twentieth Century.
‘Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.’
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