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Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey Into History
'He writes history like nobody else He thinks like nobody else He sees the world as a whole with its limitless fund of stories' Byan Appleyard Sunday TimesWhere have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us'Human history is a tale not just of constant change but equally of perpetual locomotion' writes Norman Davies Throughout the ages men and women have endlessly sought the greener side of the hill Their migrations collisions conquests and interactions have given rise to the spectacular profusion of cultures races languages and polities that now proliferates on every continentThis incessant restlessness inspired Davies's own After decades of writing about
European history and like Tennyson's ageing Ulysses longing for one last adventure he embarked upon an extended journey that took him right round the world to a score of hitherto unfamiliar countries His aims were to test his powers of observation and to revel in the exotic but equally to encounter history in a new way Beneath Another Sky is partly a historian's travelogue partly a highly engaging exploration of events and personalities that have fashioned today's world - and entirely sui generisDavies's circumnavigation takes him to Baku the Emirates India Malaysia Mauritius Tasmania Tahiti Texas Madeira and many places in between At every stop he not only describes the current scene but also excavates the layers of accumulated experience that underpin the present He tramps round ancient
temples and weird museums summarises the complexity of Indian castes Austronesian languages and Pacific explorations delves into the fate of indigenous peoples and of a missing Malaysian airliner reflects on cultural conflict in Cornwall uncovers the Nazi origins of Frankfurt airport and lectures on imperialism in a desert oasis 'Everything has its history' he writes 'including the history of finding one's way or of getting lost'The personality of the author comes across strongly - wry romantic occasionally grumpy but with an endless curiosity and appetite for knowledge As always Norman Davies watches the historical horizon as well as what is close at hand and brilliantly complicates our view of the past
European history and like Tennyson's ageing Ulysses longing for one last adventure he embarked upon an extended journey that took him right round the world to a score of hitherto unfamiliar countries His aims were to test his powers of observation and to revel in the exotic but equally to encounter history in a new way Beneath Another Sky is partly a historian's travelogue partly a highly engaging exploration of events and personalities that have fashioned today's world - and entirely sui generisDavies's circumnavigation takes him to Baku the Emirates India Malaysia Mauritius Tasmania Tahiti Texas Madeira and many places in between At every stop he not only describes the current scene but also excavates the layers of accumulated experience that underpin the present He tramps round ancient
temples and weird museums summarises the complexity of Indian castes Austronesian languages and Pacific explorations delves into the fate of indigenous peoples and of a missing Malaysian airliner reflects on cultural conflict in Cornwall uncovers the Nazi origins of Frankfurt airport and lectures on imperialism in a desert oasis 'Everything has its history' he writes 'including the history of finding one's way or of getting lost'The personality of the author comes across strongly - wry romantic occasionally grumpy but with an endless curiosity and appetite for knowledge As always Norman Davies watches the historical horizon as well as what is close at hand and brilliantly complicates our view of the past
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