Shelf life
Dirk Frankenberg '59, a University of North Carolina marine sciences professor, presents 38 eco-tours in ExploringNorth Carolina's Natural Areas: Parks, Nature Preserves and Hiking Trails (University of North Carolina Press).
Wickliffe W. Walker '68 is a member of the famed Explorers Club, and his new book Courting the Diamond Sow:A WhitewaterExpedition on Tibet'sForbidden River (National Geographic Society's Adventure Press) makes it clear why. Walker, who represented the United States in white water
canoe competition in three world championships and the 1972 Summer Olympics, details an almost two-decades long exploration of the Tsangpo River, called the Everest of the white water world.
Katharine Bjork Guneratne '85 shares unforgettable images from her experience in the field as the wife of anthropologist Upali Arjun Guneratne '85 in In theCircle of the Dance (Cornell University Press)."'Bjork writes about mixing mud and manure for her hut, cutting rice, and attending weddings and festivals in a tiny village in Nepal. Her sensitivity and her humility are disarming, and the result is a story as much about the landscape of human relationships as it is about the culture of Nepal.
Jean Hanff Korelifz '83 in her second novel, The Sabbathday River (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), intertwines infanticides, Scarlet Letter-like intolerances and modern culture clashes into a provocative, complex thriller. A Book of the Month Club selection, Sabbathday was released in paperback in February. In a chapter set in Hanover, a key character has a brief but revealing period as a Dartmouth student.
