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Title: Reindeer Moon by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ISBN: 0-671-74189-6 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a wildly beautiful novel
Comment: Simply one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Easily the best invocation of what life may well have been like for our hunting and gathering ancestors, and a stupendous illustration of of animistic modes of experience, and of the reciprocity between human beings and the living land. Brilliant insights into the sensorial worlds of other animals -- wolves, mammoths, and others -- as well as into mysteriously beautiful styles of thought and awareness still common among many indigenous, oral peoples. An anthropological and deeply ecological classic -- and yet its a novel! Its not for those who like their nature sentimental and sweet, but if you care about the wild otherness so rapidly dissappearing from our world, don't miss this astonishing book.
Rating: 5
Summary: I was blown away!
Comment: Hands down one of the best books I've read to date. I was assigned Reindeer Moon for an introductory Anthropology course a few years back, and what a treat it turned out to be! Wonderfully realistic and multidimensional characters as well as supurb attention to detail are what make this novel impossible to put down. I read Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel prior to this and was dissapointed that her main character was portrayed almost like an angel; she could do no wrong. But Thomas's Yanan is so real; complete with character flaws, impure thoughts, and feelings of uncertainty. A rich cast of characters and amazing attention to detail is what made this book soar to the top of my "favorite novels" list. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Story, But Kind of Stressful
Comment: This is not the kind of book I normally read, but I could stop myself from reading it once I began. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas truly knows how hook a reader. I felt pain and sadness, at the deaths of Yanan's lodge members, but also their joys. The other does a seamless job of moving the story back and forth from the really world [if you can call it that], to the sprit world, and somehow make me [a strong non-fiction reader] believe. I will worn the reader, that this book did not leave me feeling relaxed, I found that I was stressed and restless after reading it. I would call the book a good read, one I wouldn't want to have missed out on, but I wouldn't call it an enjoyable read.
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Title: A History of Dogs in the Early Americas by Marion Schwartz ISBN: 0300075197 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Animal Wife by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ISBN: 0671733230 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire by David Christian ISBN: 0631208143 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ISBN: 067972446X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Life along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield ISBN: 0520232143 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 06 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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