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4 reviews
Michael Ondaatje, Linda Spalding, ...

Vintage Canada, 2002

Great Conversation
The act of reading has been mistakenly called solitary. It is all about dialogue and this book has it in spades. Michael Ondaatje and fellow editors from Brick Magazine, a literary journal, invited over 70 past contributors to submit essays singing the praises of lost, long-ago, out-of-print or underrated books that mattered. In other words, it is a collection of love stories, all personable ...

Who Named the Knife: A True Story of Murder and Memory

1 review
Linda Spalding

Anchor, 2008

Powerful and though provoking memoir
In this true-life story, Linda Spalding is chosen to be a jury member. The person on trial is 18-year-old Maryann Acker. She is accused of two murders, one in Hawaii and one in California. The key witness is her husband, William Acker. Linda goes all through the trial, except on the last day she is five minutes late because her dog was sick. They tell Linda she is excused from the jury for being ...

Riska: Memories of a Dayak Girlhood

1 review
Riska Orpa Sari, Riska, Edited by Linda Spalding Orpa Sari

University of Georgia Press, 2000

Unique insights into a disappearing culture
The book cover includes a comment from a reviewer who says, "You'll never forget Riska." The reviewer is right. The author opens her heart and her life to describe the challenges of growing up in isolated parts of Borneo and then moving to Bali as a young adult in search of a "better" life. In doing so, Riska realizes that there are trade-offs inherent to big changes and disruptions in our ...

Brick 71 Summer 2003, A Literary Journal
Linda Spalding

Brick, 2003

DAUGHTERS OF CAPTAIN COOK

4 reviews
LINDA SPALDING

BLOOMSBURY, 1989

A great novel which takes a fresh look at the great themes o
Daughters of Captain Cook is an enduring addition to the tradition of The Great American novel. Spalding's considerable descriptive gifts set the novel in a darkly exotic Hawaiian island where her vivid characters struggle to manage the tensions of marriage, sibling rivalry, sexual jealousy and loss. Hawaiian history and bizarre royal customs clarify and complicate the plot as it unfolds ...

A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakey's Last Angel into Borneo

1 review
Linda Spalding

Seal Press, 2003

Good Points Made Poorly
This book deserves credit for pointing out the mistakes made by Galdikas in Tanjung Puting National Park. These include swarming a natural habitat with tamed apes that can never become wild again but pass on human diseases to the wild population and outcompete them for food in the area. It also reveals how OFI "volunter-programs" and "study tours" were little more than overpriced package tours ...

Who Named the Knife
Linda Spalding

McClelland & Stewart, 2007

Like Ruskin for a new age, Spalding brilliantly interweaves her own life and her subject?s in this story of a sensational murder case. In 1982, as Linda Spalding was about to leave Hawaii and embark on a new life in Canada, she was called to jury duty, sitting for the trial of a young woman charged with murder. Maryann Acker was Mormon, eighteen years old, and married to a petty crook and hustler who had hauled her into a life that led ...

Brick 67

Brick, 2001

In its 25-year history, Brick has grown from a grassroots magazine to one of the most respected literary journals in the world. Focused on literary nonfiction of various genres and subjects -- the writing life, travel, film, memoir, interviews with authors, and excerpts from their works -- Brick is an ongoing conversation between readers and writers. This issue features original essays by Guy Davenport, Donald Richie, and Jim Harrison; an ...

A Dark Place in the Jungle: Science, Orangutans, and Human Nature

14 reviews
Linda Spalding

Algonquin Books, 1999

Good Points Made Poorly
This book deserves credit for pointing out the mistakes made by Galdikas in Tanjung Puting National Park. These include swarming a natural habitat with tamed apes that can never become wild again but pass on human diseases to the wild population and outcompete them for food in the area. It also reveals how OFI "volunter-programs" and "study tours" were little more than overpriced package tours ...

The Follow : A True Story
Linda Spalding

Key Porter Books, 1998

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