{"title":"Jeff Fearnside","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ships-in-the-desert-book-jeff-fearnside-9781951631154","title":"Ships In The Desert","description":"In this linked essay collection, award-winning author Jeff Fearnside analyzes his four years as an educator on the Great Silk Road, primarily in Kazakhstan. Peeling back the layers of culture, environment, and history that define the country and its people, Fearnside creates a compelling narrative about this faraway land and soon realizes how the local, personal stories are, in fact, global stories. Fearnside sees firsthand the unnatural disaster of the Aral Sea--a man-made environmental crisis that has devastated the region and impacts the entire world. He examines the sometimes controversial ethics of Western missionaries, and reflects on personal and social change once he returns to the States. \u003ci\u003eShips in the Desert\u003c\/i\u003e explores universal issues of religious bigotry, cultural intolerance, environmental degradation, and how a battle over water rights led to a catastrophe that is now being repeated around the world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49585661149457,"sku":"GOR013656867","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49896518156561,"sku":"CIN1951631153VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055177662737,"sku":"NIN9781951631154","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53250638774545,"sku":"NLS9781951631154","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1951631153.jpg?v=1751413868"},{"product_id":"husband-and-wife-are-one-satan-book-jeff-fearnside-9781949039276","title":"A Husband and Wife Are One Satan","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49948438692113,"sku":"CIN1949039277G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1949039277.jpg?v=1750805106"},{"product_id":"making-love-while-levitating-three-feet-in-the-air-book-jeff-fearnside-9781622881031","title":"Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air","description":"Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air:And Other Stories of Flight’s 13 short stories arelinked thematically by the recurring idea of flight, inits various definitions and senses. The characters aresometimes in flight from their situations, sometimesfrom other people, sometimes from themselves.  Stories range from contemporary to historical,from realistic to magical realist. The known andthe unknown often blur as the characters struggleto understand the unseen forces that move them..Ultimately, the crises that all the charactersencounter are psychological or spiritual in someway, however each may define that; as the title of thecollection suggests, the characters find themselveslevitating somewhere between their deepest desiresand an exquisite and terrifying nothingness.  No one in these stories “wins” in the traditionalsense; there are no tidy answers. But the stories aresubtly life affirming in how each character deals withthe difficulties of life. Each learns something abouthimself or herself, however fleeting that knowledgemay be, however small a step forward it inspires.Life isn’t static, and neither are these people.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51253098414353,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51253099659537,"sku":"NIN9781622881031","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1622881036.jpg?v=1751023927"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-jeff-fearnside.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}