Sentences with phrase «explored slices of history»
Geraldine Brooks has a way of infusing vivid color, texture, sound, and aroma to little - explored slices of history, breathing new life into facts cull
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Last April, New York published the first of what we hoped would be a recurring event: an anniversary issue (the magazine debuted on April 8, 1968) that celebrated our birthday by exploring a slice of this city's history.
Throughout, Tiffany (an agricultural journalist living in Melbourne) explores the themes of man against nature, and the nature of man against man, but she also captures a big slice of social history, illustrating the incredible hardships of the time - the great depression, extensive years of drought, the memories of one war still present and the impending onset of another - stories that are at one level uniquely Australian but at another level, totally universal.
Each room serves as a little slice of history, and it's fun and utterly depressing at the same time to witness Edith slowly fill in the family tree in her own journal while exploring the memories of those who came before her.