Word: journeyer
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These multiple perspectives inform Cambridge, his fourth and best selling novel so far, recently reissued in paperback. A historical novel set in the early 19th century, the book narrates the journey of the Englishwoman Emily Cartwright to an unnamed Caribbean is land to look after affairs on her father's plantation estate. Part of the book is told from her point of view, part from that of an educated, African-born Christian slave named Cambridge...
...United Nations truck convoys. Desperate to escape a Serbian blockade, loads of as many as 180 people swarmed aboard the transport vehicles designed to carry sacks of food, unwittingly crushing to death the small and weak in the process. Others died of suffocation during the eight-hour journey to Tuzla. Horrified U.N. officials, already smarting under accusations of abetting the Serb aim of ethnic cleansing by evacuating Muslims, temporarily called off further convoys. There was nothing to dissuade them from their pessimism in the rejection by the Serb nationalist parliament in Bosnia of the Vance-Owen peace plan, approved...
...painfully against the cold steel sides yet able to gulp down the winter air as the convoy of refugees crawled its way from the front-line Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica to the relative safety of Tuzla. The unlucky ones -- five small children and two women -- died on the journey, their lives pressed out in the tight huddle of frightened humanity...
Dazed refugees who arrived in Tuzla spoke of the hellish conditions of the journey, with as many as 180 people packed into trucks designed to carry sacks of food. Some admitted to bribing army commanders to get on; others fought for places, pushing aside those too weak to retaliate. A little boy who survived a fall from one of the trucks en route ran screaming alongside the roaring convoy until a Serb army major hoisted him back on board. "When you see the refugees you only have to imagine what it's like for the people inside," said Simon Mardel...
...impresario Cameron Mackintosh (Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables) has been showing up night after night, pondering a transfer when the sold-out run ends May 23. Mackintosh, the wealthiest producer in theater history, launched his U.S. career with Side by Side, and is keen to take a sentimental journey, provided reviews allow it to be a profitable...