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Searching for Orwell
A backwater town in Upper Burma was the site for Orwell’s Burmese Days, a book that takes no prisoners KATHA, Burma There are worse travel strategies than to visit places with evocative names. There’s Timbuktu, Congo and Okavango in Africa; and Salvador de Bahia, Darien and Patagonia in Latin America, names which purr with history and poetry. But Asia’s resonant place names beckon to me above all others. There’s Sumatra, Java and Borneo; Malacca,...
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Exploring Your Personal Odyssey
A creative writing workshop that helps people tell their personal stories ___ Monday October 11, 2010. 08.30-17.00 Sponsored by Neilson Hays Library
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles Lecture on Alfred Russel Wallace __ Friday July 16, 2010 18.00-19.00 National University Singapore Sponsored by National Parks Board-Singapore http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php?entry=/talks/20100716-wallacetalk.txt ___ Charles...
Almost Famous
Almost Famous A master class in creative non-fiction ________ Sponsored by Neilson Hays Library, Bangkok, Thailand Thursday June 7, 2010. 08.30-17.00 neilson.library@gmail.com Tel: +66...