Word: exoticization
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Salt routes crisscrossed the globe. One of the most traveled led from Morocco south across the Sahara to Timbuktu. Ships bearing salt from Egypt to Greece traversed the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Herodotus describes a caravan route that united the salt oases of the Libyan desert. Venice's glittering...
Such resignation recurs throughout the book: things are not going to get better, anywhere. But individual poems shimmer with exotic rhythms and flash with tropical colors. Walcott's circular pilgrimage is painful and moving; it also traverses some enchanting scenery.
Life is tough for the Ulam tribe these days (80,000 B.C.). Their cave is under attack from the Wagaboo, a few rungs down the evolutionary ladder and plenty fierce. Worst of all, the Wagaboo steal the Ulam fire-the mysterious element that keeps them warm, broils their food and...
He also tells more than he knows. On the surface, his narrative is an old-fashioned adventure story, episodic, rambling, full of exotic surprises. Beneath all that activity, though, lie several conclusions that Charlie himself does not draw. Shaved of its excesses, Allie's critique of contemporary life is...
Other groups had less exotic displays and tended toward political interests.