Beginner's Tarot Boxed Set by Kathleen Mccormack
Chetham's elegiac book about the towns along the banks of the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River was written on the very eve of their destruction. After great controversy, the Chinese government has begun construction of the world's largest hydroelectric dam in the Three Gorges section of the Yangtze, a place renowned for its beauty. For over two thousand years, the Yangtze has been the great transport route linking the coast with the west and southwest and providing irrigation for the farms that fed China. Once the dam is completed in 2009, the water level will rise as much as 350 feet in a hundred-mile stretch of the river. The water will submerge over a dozen large cities, almost 1,500 villages and towns, and innumerable historical and cultural sites. Over a million people are being moved, voluntarily or otherwise, altering not only their lives, but the lives of a multitude of others whose existence is intertwined with the river. Before the Deluge captures a sense of the daily life, traditions and history of the people who live along the Upper Yangtze's Three Gorges area. It chronicles the region's past and present with an eye on the disruption of an existing way of life. Perhaps most importantly, it captures a world that is rapidly vanishing under the rushing waters of one of the world's largest rivers.
McCormack, Kathleen: - Kathleen McCormack gives lectures and conducts seminars on the tarot in England. She is also author of Beginner's Tarot Boxed Set and The Tarot Decoder, both published in North America by Barron's. Originally from Australia, she was the first person to teach tarot at three different universities in Sydney.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780764174421 |
| ISBN 10 | 0764174428 |
| Title | Beginner's Tarot Boxed Set |
| Author | Kathleen Mccormack |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Barron's Educational Series |
| Year published | 2001-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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