On migration : dangerous journeys and the living world / Ruth Padel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Padel, Ruth, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings.

Animal migration.

Plants--Migration.

Plants.

Physical Description:

254 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : Counterpoint, [2013]

Contents:

Migration Made the World 1

First Cell 10

Dance of the Prokaryotes 11

Revelation 12

Breaking the Bond 14

Go and Stay 15

Allele 23

Cell Begins Her Travels 24

Spinning the Plasma 25

Flight of the Apple 27

Go and Come Back 29

Dunlin 42

Where Clavicle and Wishbone Fuse 43

Children of Storm 44

Swallows Hibernating at the Bottom of a River 46

Rift 47

The Boy from Haiti 48

The Watcher 49

Finding the Way 51

When You're on Your Own 68

1 Osprey 68

2 Hummingbird 69

That Bird Migration Records the Movement of Earth's Crust 71

Star of the Different Road Back 73

Choice 74

The Hostile Planet: Sky, Sea, Land 75

Nocturne 83

The Ampullae of Lorenzini 86

Barnacle's Love Song to Humpback Whale 87

In Praise of Eight Million Fruit Bats 89

The Miracle of the Fish-Counter in Budgens 90

Ethogram for a Painted Lady 92

Blade Runners of Madagascar 93

Road Closed to Save Mating Toads 94

Chemical 95

There is Always a River 97

Song of the Herbivores 105

Zebra Go First 106

Dream of the Zebra Foal 107

Wildebeest Calf 108

Vulture Optics 109

The Mara, Rising 111

How Does a Zebra Decide? 112

Pregnant Gazelle 113

History's Push and Pull 115

The Wild One 128

Homo ergaster and the Red Horizon 130

Riders from the East 132

Leaving Troy 133

The Mission 136

The Appointment 139

Kywash 140

Directions for the Plantation of Ulster, 1610 143

The Colossus 144

Landscape with Flight into Egypt 145

Strangers 147

Migrant Mother 161

The Letter Home 162

What You Told Me about Islands 164

1 The Two Flames 164

2 Blown Ruby 165

The Music of Home 166

Music from the Deep 169

The Two-handled Jug 170

the Freud Museum 171

Entry of the Sabbath 172

Godfearing 173

Pieter the Funny One 174

Sphinxes on Thames 177

The Broken Mirror 179

Lodestone 186

Gun 187

End of the Line 188

Sea Catch 190

The Mirror of Nature 191

Rabbit on the Moon 193

The Camden Telescope-Making Class 195

Letter, to a Portuguese Cosmologist 196

Advertisement: The Lunar Registry 198

Sharing Space 200

Farming the Wind 201

The Marshes of Eden 202

Children of Storm 205

The Desert and the Sea 218

Ghost Ship 219

Orestiada 220

Wetbacks 222

Maltese Fishing Boat and Broken Net 223

The Place without a Door 225

Immigration Counter and the Gates of Ivory 226

The Apple Orchard in Ghosts 228

The Prayer Labyrinth 229

Purple Ink 231

Carpet Karaoke 232

Dancers with Bruised Knees 234

The Wanderings of Psyche 237

The Wood Where Birds Die for Christ and Rise Again 246

Only Here On Earth 247

Matisse Writes a Postcard after the War 248

Prayer on an Orphic Gold Leaf 249

Open Door: after Rumi 250

Time to Fly 251.

Notes:

Orginally published: Great Britain : Chatto & Windus, 2012.

ISBN:

1619021951

9781619021952

OCLC:

828768816