Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor (Southern Biography Series)

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Great story of Florida's history and a little-known governor.......1999-05-15

This book tells the story of one of Florida's little known governors. Ossian Hart was loyal to the Union before, during, and after the Civil War. The book outlines politics in Florida from the early Seminole wars to the end of Hart's term as governor. Ossian Hart was a champion of the rights of blacks, especially their voting rights. There are many quotes and footnotes to support this history. Governor Hart was a very interesting man. This book should be required reading for anyone in college in Florida and indeed for anyone interested in Florida's history. Canter Brown has obviously done his research.

OSSIAN BINGLEY HART: FLORIDA'S LOYALIST RECONSTRUCTION GOVERNOR

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OSSIAN BINGLEY HART: FLORIDA'S LOYALIST RECONSTRUCTION GOVERNOR
Canter Brown
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In this cross between a travel adventure story and an espionage novel, Sydney Wignall tells how he became an ad hoc spy for a renegade faction of Indian intelligence operatives in 1955. Wignall had set out to climb the highest mountain in Tibet, but was recruited to investigate Chinese military activity in the region. After being caught, he spent months in a rat-infested, sub-freezing cell as he underwent interrogation. When international pressure forced his release, his captors "released" him and two companions in a nearly impenetrable wintertime wilderness and said "Go home." Yet Wignall survived--and managed to smuggle out vital information. It is an exhilarating story that only now can be told.

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In 1955, Sydney Wignall organized the Welsh Himalayan expedition to climb Tibet's highest mountain, Gurla Mandhata. But Wignall and two of his companions were more than just mountaineers; before setting out, Wignall had been recruited by a covert faction within Indian intelligence to report on Chinese military operations in newly invaded Tibet. Wignall and his band of unlikely spies were soon captured and imprisoned by the Red Army, thus beginning an ordeal that would draw on their last reserves of physical and emotional strength. Subjected to rat-infested, subfreezing cells and months of torturous interrogation, Wignall and his colleagues refused to allow their spirits to be broken. Ultimately, international pressure convinced the Chinese to release the three spies. But instead of being flown safely home, they were ordered to return via the Seti Gorge in the middle of winter, a deadly Himalayan pass considered suicidal even in summer. Their bodies wracked with frostbite and dysentery, their final trek to freedom is an amazing testament to their will to survive. (6 X 9, 304 pages, b&w photos, maps)

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The Best Book I Have Ever Read, On ANY Topic.......2006-06-15

This is the best book I have ever read, on any topic. My husband and I had to move to a new house with two extra bedrooms and a finished basement - just so we could accomodate all our books. So I don't say lightly that this is the best book I have ever read.

This is a great survival story, but, more than that, it is an amazing human drama. Other reviewers have done an excellent job of describing the plot, so I'll just say that Sydney Wignall's writing is clear, detailed, and emotionally charged. This book is amazingly powerful.

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Amazing story.......2006-05-11

A truly amazing story with right dosage of travelogue, high altitude mountaineering, History of India, Nepal, China & Tibet's along with the behind the scenes patriotism of Indian army and of self centered Nehru & Menon. A must read for who truly believe in the cause of Tibet's Liberation!

Factual & Damning.......2002-07-13

This book goes into the period just after the Chinese 'liberation' of Tibet and the war with India due to their land grabbing.
The author has written out of personal experience, and his lack of writing skills must be excused. Sometimes the narrative might get kinda boring, but the work has to be read as a historical gem rather than an interesting story.
Goes into good detail about the crimes committed by the Chinese against the Tibetans.
A very good read.

A thrilling read !.......2002-04-08

As a Indian I was naturaly drawn to read an account of a brit mountaineer who was engaged in a spying operation for the Indian army...

The feat of endurance is graphically elucidated by the author and is replete with descriptions of the freezing cold and the hardy spirit of the mountain people

Revisit to an Old Situation.......2001-08-30

Forty years ago when I was an undergraduate I had an abiding interest in the "Roof of the World." the Himalayas and the Sinkiang and Tibetan areas. I was introduced to it by reading Heinrich Harrar's Seven Years in Tibet. I wentback and reread the accounts of Franc and Jean Bowie Shor which had appeared in the National Geographic in the late 40s. Also when I was a child I had read Lowell Thomas's account of his 1949 visit to Tibet in the Saturday Evening Post. Later when I took a job as a cartographer with the Army Map Service for a while I was assigned the area to keep up with. Nepal and India particularly. By then the high Asia area had been long closed to western travelers by the Red Chinese. For a few years in the late forties just after WW II there was a period of open borders when the Chinese Civil War was being settled and the areas mentioned were still friendly to westerners. Even in the midst of the war the American OSS had sent an expedition to Lhasa to explore opening a land supply route to China from India. While I was still studying geography, the Indo Chinese War of 1962 broke out along the narrow neck of India where then East Pakistan juts northward and almost cuts off the Northeast Frontier provinces. The war had been provoked by Indian government posturing, whose foreign minister V.K. Krishna Menon, a left wing appeaser, disagreed with the Army and their intent to reinforce themselves. The dispute with China had been provoked by Indian vague border claims inherited from the British in the area of Ladakh, which is way to the west of Tibet and south of Sinkiang. This "border" was shown on most maps with a dotted line which meant that it was a claim not a line of control. Neither the British or the Indians had ever patrolled or garrisonned Ladakh. The whole area is a cold barren plateau about as infertile as the Mohave desert. The only reason to want it is that the Chinese had constructed a road across the claimed area from Sinking to Tibet in order to facilitate their occupation of the latter. Although this is a mighty roundabout way to get to Lhasa from China proper, considering the expense of building a road across the folded mountains of the "Hump" it made sense. When the Indians started posturing and barking about this intrusion into their claimed lands, the Chinese swiftly invaded directly south from Tibet through Sikkim and gave the Indian Army a bloody setback. Having proved their point they then withdrew. Now comes the setting for this story. Among several nations who were sympathetic to the Tibetan's aspirations was the US and the CIA. That story of their support is covered elsewhere. However, the long snaky shaped nation of Nepal lies between India and Tibet. On the northern flank and part of Nepal is a bump on the map which is the Kingdom of Mustang. There are books about it also. This area being lower in altitude and the border being porous was an ideal location for air strips supplying the Tibetan resistance and a jumping off point for land expeditions against the Red Army. Though all this had to be kept quiet, the Mustang border was widely recognized if undemarcated so the Red Chinese could not for international political reasons move in there permanently. Now we come to the story told in this book. Before the development of high flying reconnaissance aircraft such as the U2 there were few planes available that could fly over the area clandestinely and not be spotted. As mapping runs require a regular pattern of repetitive flights, the activity is both apparent and readily vulnerable to attack. In any case the use of US planes was not possible and there were no air bases near either. So the only way to find anything out was to sneak and peek. The author was a British mountaineer who mounted a small expedition to Mustang. While passing through India he was secretly contacted by Indian Army intelligence and asked to dash over the border and check out a town which contained a Chinese garrison. While doeing so he was captured, jailed, and then set free to hike over the mountains in the winter. The book recounts his experiences in some detail and having been written many years later when most of the other players are long dead, has been able to be frank in his opinions.

Spy on the Roof of the World A True Story of Espionage and Survival in the Himalayas

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Spy on the Roof of the World A True Story of Espionage and Survival in the Himalayas
Sidney Wignall
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Spy on the Roof of the World: A True Story of Espionage & Survival in the Himalayas

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Spy on the Roof of the World: A True Story of Espionage & Survival in the Himalayas
Sydney Wignall
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one of the best books I've read.......2004-10-19

I read this book cover to cover in one sitting while in Nepal. I've told everyone I've met that they have to read it. You'll love it!!

outstanding Information !!!.......2004-06-21

The story of the Welsh Himalayan expedition, organized by Sydney Wignall in 1955 to climb Tibet's highest mountain, Gurla Mandhata. To protect the lives of those involved, it was over 40 years before this riveting true story could be told. Wignall & 2 of his companions had been recruited by Indian intelligence to report on Chinese military operations in Tibet. The unlikely spies were captured & imprisoned by the Chinese Red Army. The Chinese released the 3 spies, & their trek to safety across a deadly Himalayan pass in the depth of winter is an amazing testament to the will to survive. B&W photos.

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this book is about the little known but crucial subtleties of estate planning and how to avoid the pitfalls that have caused disasters for even the richest and most famous individuals. It provides a check list for the successful individual and a state-of-the-art guide for the professional planner. Dozens of real-life examples, charts and illustrations, make this resource easy and entertaining to read.

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A Useful, Readable (Oxymoron?) tax guide.......2000-10-20

Many people of moderate wealth can learn tax planning from this book in a simple and accessible way, from anecdotes combined with excellent brief tax explanations. Younger (30 to 40) folks can benefit the most because they have more financial years to gain from good decisions made today.

As a manager of separate individual stock market accounts, I have been interested in financial planning, but skeptical. This book really reaches me because it offers simple real life examples where I see the point and recognize client situations which can benefit from the solutions.

Dunn uses high profile individuals for many of his cases, drawing from news reports and other sources. When you hear about very good and woefully bad decisions made by folks such as Sam Walton, Warren Buffet, Jackie Kennedy and many others, the magnitude of savings from good decisions really comes home. You will see good reasons to get some competent help.

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In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the "gently mad" on an irresistible journey to the great libraries of the past -- from Alexandria to Glastonbury -- and to contemporary collections at the Vatican, Wolfenbüttel, and erudite universities. Along the way, he drops in on eccentric book dealers and regales us with stories about unforgettable collectors, such as the gentleman who bought a rare book in 1939 "by selling bottles of his own blood."

Taking the book's grand title from the marble lions guarding the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, Basbanes both entertains and delights. And once again, as Scott Turow aptly noted, "Basbanes makes you love books, the collections he writes about, and the volume in your hand."

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A bibliophage is a person who devours books.......2007-09-21

This is an engaging compilation of book talk topics. Anecdotes abound. The London Library celebrated its one hundred fiftieth anniversary in 1991. Its counterparts are the Library Company of Philadelphia, the New York Society Library, the Boston Athenaeum. It is not a club. There is silence maintained in the London Library reading room. Some writers do their writing there. Penelope Fitzgerald found Novalis's letters in the London Library.

Umberto Eco has a personal library of thirty thousand volumes. The success of THE NAME OF THE ROSE enabled him to become a serious book collector. The books arts community located in western Massachusetts is described. The author uses the title 'Profiles in Bibliophagia' for one of the sections of his book.

Antiquarian bookselling is more established in Europe than in the United States. The most prominent American bookseller of the twentieth century was Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. The very best dealers are scholars. Emigre booksellers helped create some of the great research libraries in America.

The Boston Public Library, a McKim structure, is the most notable building in Back Bay. Alfred Kazin and Richard Hofstadter began their friendship at the New York Public Library. Harold Bloom credits that library with starting his book passion. The library was a refuge for many immigrant scholars. Resident writers have included Joseph Lash, James Thomas Flexner, Nancy Milford, Edna St.Vincent Millay, Susan Brownmiller, Robert Caro. Nicholson Baker has written dismissively of the destruction of card catalogues and the replacement of them by various kinds of electronic access.

Colleges and universities continue to be judged by the strength of their libraries. Harvard may be the only library that has kept up with inflation. Other schools are buying less than they used to. The author recounts how the library at York University, (Canada), was built. About one hundred thousand books were bought from a dealer of second-hand books in Boston. Works in French were obtained from a store going out of business. York University also bought books along with the the California system of higher education. The same librarian doubled the library collection at Boston College in ten years.

Premier research institutions demand strong libraries. University libraries were able to enhance their collections under Title II, a federal program in effect from 1965 to 1982. Research universities have used book depositories for low-circulation books to avoid deaccessioning them. Cornell and the University of Michigan have joined forces to create the Making of America digital library.

The author describes the Strand and Argosy book stores of New York City. Serendipity is a term originating in a piece by Horace Walpole. It is the name of a distinguished book store in Berkeley.

Photographs ornament this excellent work.

Bibliomaniac Strikes again.......2006-09-07

If you love books than you will love Nicholas Basbanes. In this installment of Basbanes ode to all things printed and bound he delves into (among other things) the world of libraries, their noble traditions as well as a few shameful failings. Implicit in every page of this and all his books is a genuine love of his topic, and this mixed with his broad scholarship and pleasant narrative make him a joy to read.

Love books? .......2006-02-25

I still have not been able to read A Gentle Madness, but from previous reviews, I can get the sense that there is a similar theme to this one.
As for Patience and Fortitude--for any book lover, you immediately become overwhelmed by Basbanes' and his interviewees' passion for books. Moreover, the more you read about some of the great collections covered in this book, the more you want to see for yourself. For me, the most intriguing element of the book was the section on the long forgotten libraries of Mt Athos, some of which maintain extensive collections from Byzantium.
I was equally interested to read how the major libraries of the world assemble collections, and attempt to maintain them, while filling the need for more computer savvy customers.
I hope to read the other books by Basbanes, but if this is the standard for the others, I am sure they will be equally as enjoyable.

Librarianship 101 meets The Book Fan.......2005-07-24

Perhaps being a librarian meant I was always going to cast a jaundiced eye on this book but "A Gentle Madness" was so good I had to take the bait. A history of the printed word, a class in comparative librarianship and one of the history of libraries, along with "famous book collectors I have rubbed elbows with" leave little new to cover. I don't really care what the author had for lunch when he dined with Umberto Ecco and there is a lot of "me" in this books. Of course, his own column leads him to all sorts of authors but I would have preferred an objective discourse without including his own (less that original) musings on ancient libraries and the problems of libraries in the 21st century. He speaks only to the very top level librarians at usually the top libraries in the world. There is no discussion of state university libraries who face regular budget cuts, the staff who wrestle with their directors' obsessive acquisitiveness or those who face the demand of diminishing funds to heat and light the buildings not to mention keep staff. He thinks it horrid to spend money on computers and not books, while forgetting that access to those books is through the computer. For all those readers who never thought about what libraries actually do or how many dollars are spent to do it, this is a must read. We who slave away behind the scenes won't find this topic new, but there are millions of people who probably gave little thought to rare books and their delights and who should read this as an introductory to the gentle madness.

Los Angeles Central Library fire -- Biblioteca Alexandrina.......2005-07-16

I have not finished reading "Patience & Fortitude," although it is still on my wish list as a book I would "love to have." I *have* read enough to feel justified in making two comments here, one on a matter Basbanes discusses as the worst library disaster in American history, and a scandal which occured two years after he devoted the epilogue of this book to the Biblioteca Alexandrina, widely touted as "the new 'Library of Alexandria.'"

Basbanes devotes a page and a half to discussing the diastrous fire at the Los Angeles Central Library in 1986, but he omits mention of the scandalous background which transformed a small fire into a major disaster.

The Los Angeles Fire Department had issued numerous citations to the Library Department over a period of several years because of the reckless disregard for elementary fire safety in the building. Famously, bare electric light bulbs were within inches of one stack of books which was piled almost to the ceiling. I had occasion to see "behind the stacks" of the Science and Technology department one day, in the area where patent information was stored, and I was shocked: material was stacked on top of every bookcase in sight, and the place was packed with heaps of books and documents, many of which were destroyed in the 1986 fire.

The Los Angeles City Council was well aware that the central library was a fire trap, but they refused to do anything to upgrade the library facility. Then-Mayor Tom Bradley preferred using City tax money to finance his jet-setting lifestyle of junket after junket to the Far East rather than spend money to bring the Central Library up to even the bare minimums of the Fire Code. The consensus among critics was that the City Council and the Mayor were waiting for the Central Library to burn down so that their campaign contributors could cash in on the building contracts which would be awarded after the inevitable fire.

As it turned out, the fire was a huge windfall for the real estate developers and building contractors who bankrolled our last Mayor, for the City financed the new structure by selling off the air space above it to real estate developers who then applied the "space" they had purchased to erect skyscrapers around the new library to heights which would have been prohibited had the new library not been built. The result was a glut of office space, much of which went empty for a decade or more, and a skyline which no longer included either City Hall or the Central Library, formerly the tallest buildings in their neighborhoods by municipal ordinance. In 2004 it was revealed that the new skyline also made the neighborhood of the new Central Library the #1 target of al-Qaeda in Southern California, ahead of even Disneyland -- a fact which the City and the falsely so-called "Department of Homeland Security" kept secret from the residents and businesses of Los Angeles for three years.

Basbanes was not writing a political diatribe, but I think he did the readers of this book a grave dis-service by allowing them to think that a lone arsonist was solely responsible for the disaster which was the 1986 fire. Tom Bradley and the City Council deserve the blame for creating the conditions which turned a small fire into a hectacomb of books which destroyed a gem of Art Deco architecture. Basbanes quotes Lawrence Clark Powell, former librarian of UCLA, to the effect that the building itself was insignificant. On the contrary, the interior was covered with murals and much statuary and other art graced the building -- much of it totally lost now.

If such compelling information is omitted from the discussion of a library with which I am very familiar, I wonder how much crucial information has been left out of sections about libraries with which I am unfamiliar.

Basbanes cannot be faulted for omitting mention of the scandal which has destroyed the reputation of the Biblioteca Alexandrina, to which he devotes the epilogue of "Patience & Fortitude" -- the events took place two years after the first edition of this book was published. One hopes that future editions will devote considerable space to the scandal.

How unexpected the shocking story turned out is demonstrated by the fact that it happened less than a month after Umberto Eco, whom Basbanes interviewed, gave a speech at the BA. The timing was ironic, for the scandal hinged upon a book which Eco had discussed at length in "Foucault's Pendulum," which prompted him to lead the international crusade against the institution which had played host to him so recently.

In December 2003, less than a month after Eco's speech there, the Biblioteca Alexandrina launched a prominent exhibit of "Monotheism," and the book which they choose to place alongside the Hebrew Talmud was not the Septuagint -- the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, which had been written in Alexandria -- but "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

For those unfamiliar with it, "The Protocols" is, as Eco had pointed out years earlier in "Foucault's Pendulum," an anti-Jewish Tsarist secret police forgery purportedly containing the details of a plot by "the Learned Elders of Zion" to conquer the world. The book fueled Russian pogroms and Nazi genocide of the Jews, and today it is used by neo-Nazi and radical Moslems alike to stoke hatred of the Jews. As an anti-Jewish book it is sold by neo-Nazi groups in the 21st century and is a best seller in Moslem countries, helped in no small part by the authority of the Biblioteca Alexandrina.

What makes the display of the "The Protocols" such an outrage is that there is no longer any question that the book is a total fabrication. Not only was it a Russian forgery, but it was an almost word-for-word copy of a 19th century German plagiarism of a French novel satirizing Napoleon III and the Second Empire. Its roots may be traced to a novel by French Author Eugene Sue, who outlined a *Jesuit* plot to take over the world. The evidence of this is incontovertible -- today's text of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is a "Jewified" version of 19th century French novels which originally made no mention of Jews, Zionists or otherwise.

Nevertheless, the Biblioteca Alexandrina chose to display "The Protocols" next to the Talmud, and no amount of back-pedaling by director Yousef Ziedan changes the fact that more than $100 million of international funding was ultimately used to propagate a hateful anti-Jewish forgery as a legitimate "religious" text of Judaism (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000183.html).

Basbanes ends the first edition of "Patience & Fortitude" on the hopeful note that, "the Biblioteca Alexandrina ... has the promise of genius." Sadly, it proved its moral bankruptcy less than two years after this book was published. Basbanes owes it to the world to write a revision of "Patience & Fortitude" describing how the high hopes which so many of us had for the "the new 'Library of Alexandria'" were utterly dashed.

I give this book only four stars because I am know that Basbanes omitted information which I think he should have revealed, and I suspect that he did it more than once. If future editions fail to discuss the scandal at the Biblioteca Alexandrina my opinion of the book will plummet.

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Outstanding selection of 41 attractive and fascinating designs for embroidering, doing appliqué work, painting on fabric, and more: dragons, cranes, fish, lotuses, peonies, chrysanthemums, other popular motifs. Stitch and color information.

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A pictoral volume of not only old time barns of all shapes and sizes, but also a few pages each of windmills, bridges, outhouses, odd mail boxes, stores, places of worship, and schoolhouses.

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the real book about the vitamin.......2000-02-03

this amazing work of the world's authority on the b6-vitamin is a must in every physician's desk!.it shows the extraordinary work of that remarcable vitamin-b6.many interesting case histories in the book are realy amazing. Read and learn a remarcable book on the subject that is explained in a easy to understand way, and in enlightment.a true book on the subject.

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An engaging biography.......2004-10-01

This is an engaging biography of a great pianist and teacher. Olga Samaroff Stokowski was a virtuoso of world class who concertized widely in the United States and Europe from 1905 to about 1926. She was also a music critic, an author, a lecturer, a radio broadcaster, and, for nearly twenty-five years, one of the most influential piano teachers in the United States. The roster of her students sparkles with brilliant names-Rosalyn Tureck, Eugene List, Alexis Weissenberg, Raymond Lewenthal, Leah Effenbach, Maurice Hinson, Claudette Sorel, the great William Kapell, and many others.

As the first wife of Leopold Stokowski, Olga Samaroff did much to help launch his brilliant conducting career, first in Cincinnati and later in Philadelphia. After she and Stokowski were divorced in 1923, she joined the faculties of the Philadelphia Conservatory and the Juilliard School, where her musical influence was deep and wide.

Kline is particularly good at describing Samaroff's teaching methods and her indefatigable work as a spokesman and organizer for the cause of music education. She portrays her as strong and ambitious, hard-working, sophisticated, generous, and immensely talented, with an outgoing personality and great stores of enthusiasm and energy. She emerges from these pages not only as an admirable woman, but a thoroughly likable one as well.

There are some problems-passages in which the author's meaning is not clear, some factual discrepancies, and an index that does not fully reflect the text. It is unclear, for example, whether Samaroff was music critic of the New York Post for three years (p. 145) or just a year and a half (p. 140). If Stokowski was born in 1882, as Kline tells us (p. 55), how could he have been only 58 years old when he married Gloria Vanderbilt in 1945 (p. 211)? Kline describes an incident that occurred in 1917, when Samaroff was playing the second Saint-Saens Piano Concerto with Stokowski conducting, and he stormed off the stage in the middle of the performance, leaving her alone at the piano (p. 104). Kline later refers to the "humiliation of her memory loss on stage" (pp. 105, 107), without adequately explaining how memory loss played into this bizarre episode. There are many references in the book to the distinguished Bok family of Philadelphia, who were friends of both Samaroff and Stokowski, but the index contains not a single reference to the Boks.

These (and other similar) problems should have been corrected during the editing process. But they should not prevent readers from enjoying this book about a great woman and a great musician.

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" . . . Zsuzsanna Ozsvath bring[s] forth Radnoti's life, his thought, and his passion with a depth of insight that is rare in a scholar. Brilliant, penetrating, and passionate, Ozsvath's book sets a new standard of excellence in Holocaust studies." --David Patterson, The University of Memphis

In the Footsteps of Orpheus considers the life and work of Mikl--s Radn--ti, one of Hungary's greatest twentieth-century poets. It examines Radn--ti's artistic development and premonitory poetry and illuminates the intellectual ambience in which he lived. Ultimately, it follows the poet's route into the forced labor camp and on the death march, exploring both the circumstances of his murder and the impact of the atrocities he suffered on his creative imagination.

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