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A Million Years with You: A Memoir of Life Observed
A Million Years with You A Memoir of Life Observed Author:Elizabeth Marshall Thomas One of our greatest literary naturalists turns her famed observational eye on herself in this captivating memoir. — With their intelligence and acute insight into other cultures and species, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas?s many books have won a wide and loving audience. In A Million Years with You, this legendary author shares stories from her li... more »fe, showing how a formative experience in South-West Africa (now Namibia) in the 1950s taught her how to pay attention to the ancient wisdom of animals and humankind. As a young woman, Marshall Thomas joined her family on an anthropological expedition to the Kalahari Desert, where she conducted fieldwork among the Ju/wa Bushmen, later publishing her findings as The Harmless People. After college, a wedding, and the birth of two children, she returned to Uganda just in time for Idi Amin?s bloody revolution. Her skills as an observer and a writer would be put to the test on many other occasions, working with dogs, cats, cougars, deer?and with more personal struggles. A Million Years with You is a powerful memoir from a pioneering self-taught woman, an icon of American letters.« less