Michelin NEOS Guide Indonesia, 1e (NEOS Guide)

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Experience Indonesia with this new NEOS Guide. Designed to evoke emotions, NEOS focuses on encounters, sensations and ambiance and has an important section dedicated to people and savoir-vivre, enhanced with sketches and watercolors capturing the atmosphere of Indonesia. Perfect for today's generation of travelers looking for "real" and emotional journeys, the NEOS collection features lively descriptions and rich anecdotes as well as maps, itineraries and information on hotels and restaurants.

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Magnificent tale from the end of the world

Tierra del Fuego
Sylvia Iparraguirre , and Hardie St. Martin
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ASIN: 1880684721

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Tierra del Fuego is more than a suspenseful seafaring tale in the tradition of Captain Hornblower; it is also a chilling psychological and cultural tale, reminiscent of Heart of Darkness or Lord of the Flies, that probes deeply into human nature. Based on the true story of the Yamana Indian, Jemmy Button (parts of which are recorded in Chapter 10 of Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle), the novel explores Captain Robert Fitzroy's abduction of Jemmy Button and his attempt to "civilize" him in England and return him to his country as a bearer of "enlightened society." His experiment leads to tragic consequences. The novel deals with European arrogance and exploitation, but avoids falling into the cliche of "the Noble Savage." Jemmy (the "Other") remains strange and the attempt to co-opt him fails.

Tierra del Fuego has already won two major awards for the Spanish edition: The Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Award for the best work of fiction written by a woman and The Best Book of the Year Award at the Buenos Aires Book Fair.

An outspoken human rights advocate, Sylvia Iparraguirre has already gained considerable fame in Argentina where she was involved in several magazine projects criticizing the military dictatorship in Argentina. Tierra del Fuego is her second novel. She has also published two collections of short stories, one of which, In the Winter of the Cities, won the Municipal Prize for Literature.

Hardie St. Martin currently lives in Barcelona. In his long and distinguished career as an editor and translator, he has translated Juan Gelman, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Hernandez, Blas de Otero, and others. He is the editor of Small Hours of the Night by Roque Dalton (Curbstone, 1996).

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REVIEW QUOTES.......2001-09-04

TIERRA DEL FUEGO has received two major awards: The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award for the best work of fiction by a woman and The Best Book of the Year Award at the Buenos Aires Book Fair.

"This brilliant and beautifully wrought work deserves to become a classic." --The Texas Observer

"TIERRA DEL FUEGO has won two major Latin American awards, and justifiably so: Iparraguirre has crafted an entrancing novel from the skeleton of facts we know about this ghastly episode in English colonial history." --The Bloomsbury Review

"This tale is brilliantly told..." --National Hispanic News

"Iparraguirre has constructed a well-documented novel, with strong humanistic feeling, where personal traits and the twists and turns of the plot are skillfully woven through the genre of a novel blended with a historical chronicle. It is a fresh look at those barbarous ancestors who were destroyed by civilization."
--World Press Review

why only 5 stars ?.......2001-02-17

My name is Gerhard, I live in Germany: this book is just great! Maybe you should extend your rate up to 10 stars. If so, please note, that my ranking is TEN stars for this remarkable novel. I hope that sooner or later this book will be available also in German, to a broader the audiance . Again :what a book. Regards GHE

Magnificent tale from the end of the world.......2000-09-27

This fascinating novel is based upon the true (and famous) story of a native of Tierra del Fuego known to the English as "Jemmy Button." He was a Yamana Native American who, along with two other natives, was taken by Captain Robert Fitzroy from the Yamanas' home at the tip of South America and transported aboard the Beagle to England, where the Yamanas were educated and instructed in the ways of British culture and language. They eventually became celebrities, meeting and impressing the royal family.

Button was later returned to Tierra del Fuego by FitzRoy (this time on the voyage of the Beagle that included a young naturalist named Charles Darwin). The Yamanas were left in Tierra del Fuego with materials to construct an English house, as well as utensils and other items of European domestic life; and with the expectation that these properly instructed savages would serve as a vanguard for the expansion of British civilization in their remote land.

Instead, the house-building materials quickly fell to ruin, and the "civilized" Yamanas eventually became involved in an armed conflict with English missionaries. The resulting trial of Button in the Falkland Islands serves as the focus of this story, which is told through the eyes of a fictional Argentine, John William Guevara - a man who carries the name of his criolla mother, rather than his English father.

The distinguished Argentine writer Sylvia Iparraguirre has done far more than weave an interesting historical novel - she has constructed a moving story of the ambiguities of a son's love for his father, of a second-generation immigrant's doomed attraction to the plains of Patagonia, and of the inevitable and irreconcilable conflict between cultures, not merely between those of the Yamana and the British, but also between those cultures and the Argentine.

I highly recommend this book. I read it in the original Spanish. If you want to read the English translation, you should be very careful to order that version. Those who are interested in the topic may also wish to read Chapter 10 of Darwin's "Voyage of the Beagle," and Bruce Chatwin's "In Patagonia," as well as "Savage: the Life and Times of Jemmy Button," by Nick Hazelwood.

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well written, worth pondering: ...author!!

Tierra del Fuego

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Tragic Clash of Cultures

Savage: The Life And Times Of Jemmy Button
Nick Hazlewood
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ASIN: 0312252137

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A tale of tragedy, catastrophe, and the triumph of the human spirit.

In 1830 a Yamana Indian boy, Orundellico, was bought from his uncle in Tierra del Fuego for the price of a mother-of-pearl button. Renamed Jemmy Button, he was removed from his primitive nomadic existence, where life revolved around the hunt for food and the need for shelter, and taken halfway round the world to England, then at the height of the Industrial Revolution. He learned English and Christianity, met King William IV and Queen Adelaide, and made a strong impression on many of the major figures in Britain, eventually becoming a celebrity. Charles Darwin himself befriended the Fuegian and later wrote about their time together on The Beagle, voyaging back to the southern tip of South America. Their friendship influenced one of the most important and controversial works of the century, On the Origin of the Species.

Upon his return to Tierra del Fuego, Jemmy found that life could never be the same for him there. The Beagle's captain deposited the young man on a lonely, windswept shore and charged him with the tasks of "civilizing" his people and bringing God to his homeland. At first ostracized and attacked by other Fuegians, Jemmy later became the target of zealous and ambitious missionaries. Thirty years after his return, a missionary schooner in Tierra del Fuego was attacked, with nearly everyone on board killed, and Button himself was accused of leading the massacre.

Button's life story illustrates how the lofty ideals of imperialism often resulted in appalling consequences. Thoroughly researched and remarkably well written, this fascinating and poignant story is ultimately about survival, revenge, murder, and the destruction of a whole race of people, blurring the boundaries of civilization and savagery.

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Looking for the "why".......2005-01-23

It is said that narrative is the lifeblood of history, and Savage succeeds in taking a number of forgotten documents and weaving an interesting narrative out of them. Neither dry nor slow, the author takes us to from a so-called civilized England to the nether lands of so-called barbarity. We meet the influential Charles Darwin and spend time with the obscure Jemmy Button. During our voyage we watch well-meaning people succumb to starvation and surprise massacres. Through it all we compare and contrast two ways of life, and see first hand that, as Rudyard Kipling said, when comparing the Western worldview to that of the Eastern, the two often do not meet.
After finishing this well written work last night at 5:00am, I began asking myself why it was written, and still don't have a solid answer. Did the book have an overriding purpose, other than to tell us what happened long ago in an age that no longer exists? Was it written foremost to show a clash of civilizations from another era? Was it to examine the dangers of colonialism, whether under the British flag or that of a church group? Was it written simply to relate an interesting historical footnote?
Too, in reading what I thought the author might be saying, I came away with different conclusions. Though considered brilliant and able, I think Darwin missed the mark, and don't hold him in the esteem the author seems to. The debate over his theories goes on and on, yet it need not rage between religious groups and so-called Darwinists. Modern science, with its study of an intricate DNA almost requires me to have as much faith in a non-planned evolution as I might in intelligent design. As well, I came away with a higher view of the missionary endeavor, especially that of the later missionaries, than the author might. I live in Argentina as a missionary, and lament deeply that religious workers to these southern shores brought, albeit unknowingly, deadly diseases and colonial expectations. Yet they also brought skills, help and the desire to learn the language and some of the tribal culture. They did not bring bullets, thrive in ignorance or promote mass destruction. Might they, even with their faults, be called the "better angels" of western culture, especially in the face of others who came only to get and to force the nationals to fill labor yards or cemeteries? I know first hand from missionary accounts of oil companies that subjected tribes to such labor in Colombia that the tribesmen would go swimming just to down themselves. I know of oil companies that abused tribesmen in Indonesia with long hours and little pay so the tribesman could buy overpriced radios and other western items. This exploitation would not be recognized until later by the children of those abused. Missionaries however, for all their faults, are not usually associated with this type of cruelty. The author, in pages 301-303 of the 2000 hardback edition, nails it on the head in explaining what went wrong in the mission's earlier years and presents a casebook example of poor missiology. Yet in a wider scope good missiology prevailed around the world. Biblical Christianity helped end slavery in England; it helped stop widow burning in India. I remember my friend David who worked with tribes for 20 years in the jungles of Ecuador. Due to his work tribesmen no longer viewed twins as evil, that is, when twins were born they were no longer pierced through by spears. Yes, I digress, but there is a wider story out there that thankfully is not as colonial as was the Patagonian Missionary Society. Yet even this society, with weaknesses that shame me, did try to help the tribes and not parade them through European zoos as other groups did. The idea that the natives should have been left alone ended when Magellan circumnavigated the globe. Given the two options, I would prefer missionary limitation than determined western exploitation. In reading Savage I think that history bears this out.
So...have I meandered? Yes. But this is in part due to the book. The Pulitzer Prize winning author Barbara Tuchman once wrote that the "why" of history often becomes apparent as history is being written, that the "why" should not be forced into the writing. I found Savage to be well written and it brought history alive, yet still wonder what it is meant to relate. What was its overriding "why"? Until I know, I can only guess, and meander.

well written, worth pondering: ...author!!.......2002-03-18

Jemmy Button was not a decisive figure in human history. Indeed, he would have lived out his life and died totally forgotten were it not for the chance of his being taken to England, and returned home on the immortal voyage of the Beagle. As such, he pops up from time to time in works on Darwin and evolution, and has always left me wondering, Darwin went on to fame and authority, what ever happened to Jemmy Button? Until now, for me at least, the question has been left hanging.

In this absorbing book, Hazlewood lets Darwin go his way, and tracks Button and the fascinating story of intentions -- good or pig-headed, as you will -- gone bad. This is not a dry academic publication. The same day I got this book, a friend lent me three detective novels -- one Jeffery Deaver and two James Pattersons -- but once I got my nose into Savage, I could hardly pull it out. From my previous reading, I had a picture of Captain Fitzroy as an unpleasant character, being forced to right his wrongs through no good will of his own. Hazlewood's research shows me that I seem to have been led astray. His Fitzroy is far more sympathetic than the one I had known.

An inferior artist leaves you gasping at his craft. Hazlewood is such an expert writer that you may read the entire book without really noticing the skill and work that must have gone into the creation of this book: fluent writing, careful research, and fine construction throughout.

Had Fitzroy never packed Jemmy Button off to England, perhaps the Fuegian Indians would have disappeared from this world without a trace. At least through the work of the missionaries, whatever their motive, a record has been left of their language and some of their culture (BTW, I disagree with the previous reviewer who said we are closer to the Yamana than to the Victorians; a romantic notion that hardly bears up to a moment's consideration.) This book leaves you with a lot to think about.

Permit me to quote Alfred Russel Wallace in exposition of the book's title: "The white men in our colonies are too frequently the true savages."

Tierra del Fuego.......2001-11-26

This book is billed as a story about Jemmy Button, but Jemmy is only a starting point for this fascinating tale exploring what civilisation is, how good intentions can do wrong, and cultural misunderstanding.

Jemmy Button came from Tierra del Fuego, the land at the very south of South America. Along with 3 others from this area, he was taken away from his primitive existence (and you can be as PC as you like - it was primitive) to England. The reasoning behind this was if Jemmy and his compatriots could be taught English and `Civilisation' he would be able to go home and teach others the benefits of good living. Well of course, it didn't quite work out that way. Jemmy and some of his compatriots were returned home (one died in England), but they were not forgotten.

As time progressed, missionaries entered the picture. Their belief was that if they could track Jemmy down, they could use him as an interpreter and go-between to help convert the Tierra del Fuegian barbarians, and bring them to the life of Christ (and make them wear clothes - this was important to missionaries). The majority of the book is taken up with the story of the various attempts of missionaries, all of them misguided and ultimately doomed to fail. As with many a story about indigenous communities, this one ends with genocide brought about by a combination of accident (introduced disease, alcohol) and intent (settlers would go out and shoot the `vermin' that stole their sheep).

While well researched and full of detail, I thought this was a rather dry account of this period of English colonialism. However, it is an important one that has yet to receive the exposure it deserves. Students of colonialism or the demise of indigenous cultures (and some would argue they are each the same) should definitely find a copy of this book and read it.

another five star review.......2001-11-11

The reviews that are already submitted do an excellent job of describing the scope of the book so I won't do it again.
Normally I would be satisfied to see that other reviewers have given the marks that are deserved and would not bother to write yet another review.
This book is not normal, however. I was struck by Hazlewood's ability to paint all of the characters as rational and intelligent but also products of their times and cultures. The story unfolds in a nonjudmental way...and then leads the reader to be a witness to untold horrors and great tragedy.
Well worth the read.

Tragic Clash of Cultures.......2001-09-06

Charles Dickens wrote, "Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it." I do not know if Dickens knew about the missionary aims of the Patagonian Missionary Society, but there he surely would have found confirmation of his opinion. In _Savage: The Life and Times of Jemmy Button_ (Thomas Dunne Books), Nick Hazlewood has written an amazing and sad story about missionaries, colonialism, and a tragic clash of cultures. Sparking the story, a shocking tale of repeated good intentions and bad results, was the high Tory captain of the HMS _Beagle_, Edward FitzRoy. FitzRoy thought it would be grand to take Fuegian specimens back to Britain. One of them, swapped for a button, became Jemmy Button, and Darwin got to see him on the _Beagle_'s trip in 1831 to take him back home (so he had influence in Darwin's _The Descent of Man_). FitzRoy's hopes were futile, as Jemmy turned native again.

In 1845, the Patagonian Missionary Society, one of the many Protestant vanguards of British colonialism, made an effort to land on Tierra del Fuego and begin proselytizing. The mission lasted a week, because the natives merely stole from it, without improvement of their souls. In 1850, a similar attempt lead to the deaths of the missionaries. Newspapers warned the Patagonian Missionary Society off any future effort, but the public loved this British bravado, and the Society was emboldened to try a new venture. It would use one of the Falkland Islands as a staging ground to which Fuegians could be ferried, civilized, converted, and returned. To this end, Jemmy was found and was kidnapped once again, along with members of his family. They became homesick and resentful, and were cycled back home, with another nine Fuegians picked up. The Society's reports were glowing, but glossed over the frequent problems. One of the basic ones was that the Fuegians had little concept of property rights, and when they liked something, they took it, and they resented any subsequent searches. When this group was returned, eight missionaries were murdered. The Society blamed the work of Satan, but as one letter to the papers said, the massacre "...was produced by the recklessness of the society and their agents, and therefore I must conclude that Satan is much maligned in this matter."

Hazlewood has told this astonishing and distressing story with a novelist's fluency. In the end, the efforts toward the Fuegians could not have been more futile. Ranchers and sheep-farmers soon began invading their island, and brought devastating diseases or simply hunted them down and shot them. No pure Fuegians survived. Those with intentions of greed harmed them as much as those with intentions of improvement under the guise of imposition of a strong culture over a weak one. Such were the benefits of civilization to the savages.

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Excellent narration about real events

Three Men Of The Beagle
Richard Lee Marks
Manufacturer: Knopf
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ASIN: 0394588185
Release Date: 1991-04-16

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Culture Clash.......2006-06-01

The story that Charles Darwin tells in his excellent VOYAGE OF THE H.M.S. BEAGLE is only the first act of a three-act drama. In it, Captain Robert Fitzroy of the Beagle picked up a 14-year-old Yahgan Indian boy whom he called Jemmy Button after the mother-of-pearl button from his uniform that he uses to pay for him. He added a girl he called Fuegia Basket and an older Yahgan he called York Minster. After the five-year voyage of the beagle, Fitzroy took the three to England where much was made of them. (They even got an audience with Queen Victoria.) Then they were taken back after their moment in the sun and left back in the wilds of Tierra del Fuego.

In the second act, savagery re-asserted itself. York Minster ran off with Fuegia, with whom he had formed a close attachment; and Jemmy was robbed by his tribe of all the presents he received from British well-wishers. Around the same time, British Evangelicals decided to target the Indians of Tierra Del Fuego for conversion. Several attempts were made, resulting in misunderstandings and even a major massacre. Jemmy Button was thought to be responsible for the biggest of these massacres and was arrested and tried in the Falkland Islands, but was finally acquitted for lack of direct evidence.

Finally, Christianity took hold when Thomas Bridges, a minister who not only spoke that Yahgan tongue but had created a Yahgan-English dictionary, arrived and settled at what is now Ushuaia. But while the Indians began arriving at the mission, it was noticed that their population has begun to shrink rather drastically. Jemmy and Fuegia had died, and it is learned that York Minster had died earlier. One would bet that a naked aboriginal population would have a difficult time surviving in a sub-arctic climate under the best of circumstances, but now the die-off accelerated until not a single Yahgan -- even a half-breed -- was left after the 1960s.

Who were the three men of the Beagle referred to in Marks's title? Jemmy was one of them because of his leadership role in his tribe. The other two were Charles Darwin and Captain (later Admiral) Robert Fitzroy.

Back in England, Darwin lived a comfortable life. He held back announcing his claims about evolution until it became evident that a rival, Alfred Russel Wallace, would beat him to publication. So Darwin came out with THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES in 1859, more than 20 years after the Beagle voyage. Fitzroy, still Darwin's friend, opposed Darwin's conclusions, as he was always the more religious of the two -- despite the seeming contradiction that Darwin had originally desired to become a clergyman. As Darwin's star grew in the firmament, Fitzroy's waned, until one day in a fit of despondency he slit his throat with a straight razor.

We tend to forget Fitzroy, but he also contributed something that affects all of us on a daily basis: He almost single-handedly invented the weather forecast by his clever use of barometer readings across the British Isles in conjunction with telegraphic communications.

Richard Lee Marks has written a fascinating book about the clash of cultures between European civilization and a savage society, followed by a clash of cultures within England itself -- between the religious and scientific cultures. That clash is still going on today.

Excellent narration about real events.......2002-10-03

Interesting depiction of Darwin, Cap. Fitzroy and the indian Jemmy Button.
Also you will find the most primitive tribes and the most courageous and resolute missionaries.
It is possible to find a lot of things in this history: abnegation and faith, adventure and hope, but also emotions and sadness... over all: reality!

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Memorable!
An enjoyable book
Jemmy
Chi of St. Louis Park, MN

Jemmy
Jon Hassler
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ASIN: 0449703029
Release Date: 1988-11-27

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Since her Chippewa mother is dead, seventeen-year-old Jemmy's alcoholic father has insisted that she quit school to care for her younger siblings. But on her way home on her last day of school, she gets caught in a fierce snowstorm, and is rescued by Otis and Ann Chapman, who have moved to rural Minnesota from the city. Otis is a well-known painter, and he sees in Jemmy the model he needs to complete a mural of the Maiden of Eagle Rock. Jemmy soon finds that the Chapmans have rescued her in more ways than one...and that there's a whole world outside of her family's dreary existence, a world she can conquer, if only she has the courage to fight....

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Half breed girl.......2005-03-02

A 16 year old half American half Native American girl named Jemmy strives to find friends in a mostly white school. Along with trying to help support her brother and sister with her dad. Her father asks her to quit school so she can work around the house, do all the shopping, and try to get a job. So she does end up quitting. She ends up getting a job as a model for a painter. She is the model of a Native American girl who commits suicide because her heart has been broken. She goes to these nice peoples house every Saturday. She is paid very kindly.

I really really liked this book. Not only because it was multicultural, but because the author put a lot of feeling into it. Sometimes because the story sounded so real that I actually pictured the scenes in my head. It was a really awesome book.

Memorable!.......2004-08-31

I read this book when I was 7 or 8...and I still remember it (15 years later!)! This was one of my favorite books as a little girl.

An enjoyable book.......1999-06-18

I read this book because I am such a fan of Jon Hassler and have completed all his adult novels. Desperate for more of his writing, I read Jemmy. The previous reviewer summed it up much as I would. This book is strongest on character development and exploration of relationships among the characters. Readers who want plenty of action and a fast pace might be disappointed. But the book should appeal to readers who like thoughtful stories. The book is upbeat and positive, with clean language and a good message.

Jemmy.......1997-10-13

Jemmy is a book about a half-breed girl who is going to reservation school. Her dad says that she has to stay home from school to take care of her two siblings. Then she meets Otis and Ann. Otis, Ann, and Jemmy have good experiences and bad. Otis and Ann help her out when she needs it the most. I think that every one should read this book beause it shows a whole different perspective on many parts of life. For example, if your socioeconomic status is lower then the average American, this book will likely give you more insight, more hope, and perspective how you can change. If you are on the higher end of the socioeconomic spectrum, it will help you learn not to take your life for granted and that it may change in a heartbeat. I like Jemmy because I'm from a big city, and it widened my perspective on what small town life is all about. If you like suspense and a lot of action, I would not suggest this book for you. This is a fairly slow, mellow book that will open your eyes with its great plot. When you get attached to a character in this book, like almost everyone would, it tears your heart out when you see something happen to them. It will bring a 90 degree smile to your face when someone changes. Despite all of the good things that this book has to offer, there is a downside to this book, it is slow moving. There is a feeling of happiness, but also a great sadness. If you are into character development, this is the book you have been wanting, for it dishes out that and tons tons more. This book is for ages about 10-17, but almost every one would enjoy it, except the mediphores, vocabulary, and slow moving plot and slow action, may turn away younger children. If you read anywhere from 50-75 pages a day, you could get this book done in 3 days or less. If you read 30-49 pages a day, this book will take you 3-5 days to finish. If you are like me and like to read 10- 29 pages a day, it would take less than a week and a half. If you read less 0-10 pages a day, it would take you from 1 week and a half to a whole life time. In interviewing classmates, they gave it a 7 out of 10, because it had good detail and there was always something exciting happening. They also liked most of the characters. The author, Minnesota native Jon Hassler, was born in 1933, started teaching in 1955. He wrote such books as Staggerford in 1977 he also wrote Simon's night, The Love Hunter, The Green Journey, and North of Hope. Another young adult novel is Jemmy, Four miles to Pinecone On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give this book a strong 8. into character development, this is the book you have been wanting, for it dishes out that and tons tons more. This book is for ages about 10-17, but almost every one would enjoy it, except the mediphores, vocabulary, and slow moving plot and slow action, may turn away younger children. If you read anywhere from 50-75 pages a day, you could get this book done in 3 days or less. If you read 30-49 pages a day, this book will take you 3-5 days to finish. If you are like me and like to read 10- 29 pages a day, it would take less than a week and a half. If you read less 0-10 pages a day, it would take you from 1 week and a half to a whole life time. In interviewing classmates, they gave it a 7 out of 10, because it had good detail and there was always something exciting happening. They also liked most of the characters. The author, Minnesota native Jon Hassler, was born in 1933, started teaching in 1955. He wrote such books as Staggerford in 1977 he also wrote Simon's night, The Love Hunter, The Green Journey, and North of Hope. Another young adult novel is Jemmy, Four miles to Pinecone On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give this book a strong 8.

Chi of St. Louis Park, MN.......1997-09-29

It's a good book that shows that there are many values in life-you just have to find them. It also shows that you can accomplish many things-you just have to know how. Jon Hassler also uses the eagle as a metaphore of Jemmy-that she glides and soars through life. I recommend this book to many! It has a great storyline!

Savage: the Life And Times Of Jemmy Button

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The Adventures of a Little Donkey (1815).

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The Adventures of a Little Donkey (1815).
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Der Mann, der für einen Knopf verkauft wurde. Die unglaubliche Geschichte des Jemmy Button.

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Der Mann, der für einen Knopf verkauft wurde. Die unglaubliche Geschichte des Jemmy Button.
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El Fueguino (Narrativas Historicas)
Arnoldo Canclini
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The History of Jemmy And Jenny Jessamy (Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women)

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The History of Jemmy And Jenny Jessamy (Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women)
Eliza Haywood , and John J. Richetti
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The author of over eighty novels, plays, and volumes of poetry, Eliza Haywood is one of the most prolific and high-profile female authors of the eighteenth century. Her last novel, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, is original for its unsentimental realism in its depiction of marriage and courtship among the leisure classes of the mid-eighteenth century. In his new introduction, editor John Richetti examines how Haywood's amusing and engaging prose explores the subtleties of eighteenth-century courtship.

Out of print since the early nineteenth century, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy is now available in an edited and fully annotated modern edition.

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