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Lewis and Clark were under no illusions about being the first to discover the Rockies. Everywhere they went they found traces of Indian tribes. We leave Saddle Camp shortly after dawn, while the snow is still firm, and walk 4 miles up to the Smoking Place, a peak with a 360[degree] view that was sacred to the Indians and was graced then--as now--with stone cairns. The Nez Perce who guided the expedition's return in June 1806 insisted they stop at the peak and smoke a pipe. Lewis was enraptured: "From this place we had an extencive...
...Instead of his usual hobo's plainsong, Guthrie broke into an anthem that might have been written by the National Association of Manufacturers: "Roll on, Columbia, roll on/Roll on, Columbia, roll on/Your power is turning our darkness to dawn/So roll on, Columbia, roll on." Guthrie ardently wired up the dawn of Manifest Destiny to hydroelectric power: "Tom Jefferson's vision would not let him rest/An empire he saw in the Pacific Northwest/Sent Lewis and Clark and they did the rest/So roll on, Columbia, roll on." The beautiful, wild river made Guthrie see factories and dams and mines that would...
...digital video, Atanarjuat has the clarity of a dream. The northern sky is so bright it could give a viewer sunburn. In the film's long chase scene, when Atanarjuat runs naked across the snowy wastes to escape Oki, cinematographer Norman Cohn catches the majestic subtleties of Arctic dawn, noon and sunset...
...glowed faintly on the control panel, but Haji paid them no heed. He has been sailing these waters since his youth; subtle changes in the shape of the coast and the position of the stars are all he needs to know exactly where he is. Just before dawn the Marco Polo reached the eastern coast of Selayar and dropped anchor...
...freedom brings responsibility, and Chen?whose father is a thwarted scholar and the book's most compelling figure?never takes his good luck for granted. In his studies he remains true to his roots as a hardworking peasant, rising before dawn to pore over piles of flash cards, "relishing the real taste of pretty words and beautiful phrases such as nostalgia, willow bay, nip and tuck, nape of the neck and tiptoe," and struggling his way through Jack London and James Michener. By the heartwarming tale's end, the bumbling country boy Chen Da is well...