'When this Scotsman looked upon the crab-covered shores of the tide country, he saw not mud, but something that shone brighter than gold. "Look how much this mud is worth," he said. "A single acre of Bengal's mud yields fifteen maunds of rice. What does a square mile of gold yield? Nothing." '
Amitav Ghosh, "The Hungry Tide".
This website was invented many years ago, when the author kept coming across interesting things in pockets whilst doing laundry. Like small, terrified reptiles. Blogging about raising children in the rainforest, moving them to the UK and watching them leave home one by one to have their own adventures has gradually been replaced by a return to grownup life for their mother, Nan Sheppard, who is an anthropologist, writer and public international law consultant.
Saturday, 5 April 2008
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Amen. I wish more people would realize that you cannot eat money.
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