Clerks of the Passage

Clerks of the Passage PDF Author: Abou Farman
Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing
ISBN: 9780987831743
Category : Emigration and immigration
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This is a book about the movement of people across borders. Its roots are real and full of characters and heroic stories of the sort one might expect from migration tales. These stories turn into a larger meditation on movement, conveyed with humour and a subtle irony. Clerks of the Passage takes us on a journey in the company of some strange and great migrants, from the 3.5 million year-old bipedal hominids of Laetoli, Tanzania, to an Iranian refugee who spent seventeen years in the transit lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport, from Xerxes to Milton to Revelations, from Columbus to Don Quixote to Godot.