| Description |
358 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"During World War II, French villagers offered safe harbor to countless strangers - mostly children - as they fled for their lives. The same place offers refuge to migrants today. Why?"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Anthropologist Maggie Paxson, certainties shaken by years of studying strife, arrives on the Plateau to explore this phenomenon: What are the traits that make a group choose selflessness? In this beautiful, wind-blown place, Paxson discovers a tradition of offering refuge that dates back centuries. But it is the story of a distant relative that provides the beacon for which she has been searching. Restless and idealistic, Daniel Trocmé had found a life of meaning and purpose--or it found him--sheltering a group of children on the Plateau, until the Holocaust came for him, too. Paxson's journey into past and present turns up new answers, new questions, and a renewed faith in the possibilities for us all, in an age when global conflict has set millions adrift. Riveting, multilayered, and intensely personal, The Plateau is a deeply inspiring journey into the central conundrum of our timenthropologist Maggie Paxson, certainties shaken by years of studying strife, arrives on the Plateau to explore this phenomenon: What are the traits that make a group choose selflessness? In this beautiful, wind-blown place, Paxson discovers a tradition of offering refuge that dates back centuries. But it is the story of a distant relative that provides the beacon for which she has been searching. Restless and idealistic, Daniel Trocmé had found a life of meaning and purpose--or it found him--sheltering a group of children on the Plateau, until the Holocaust came for him, too. Paxson's journey into past and present turns up new answers, new questions, and a renewed faith in the possibilities for us all, in an age when global conflict has set millions adrift. Riveting, multilayered, and intensely personal, The Plateau is a deeply inspiring journey into the central conundrum of our time"--Amazon. |
| Contents |
Unanswered -- Days of awe -- Exodus -- First on the rope -- All the little crickets -- Hands and feet -- The hunt -- Hymn to spring -- La Burle -- Elsewhere -- Suffer the children -- Song of the Cheremsha -- Along came a spider -- Mashallah -- The fruit of the tree. |
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Paxson, Margaret.
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Paxson, Margaret. (OCoLC)fst01608557
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France) -- Emigration and immigration.
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Refugees -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon -- History -- 20th century.
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Refugees -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon -- History -- 21st century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
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Refugee children -- France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
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Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France)
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Anthropologists -- Biography.
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Anthropologists. (OCoLC)fst00810184
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Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
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Refugee children. (OCoLC)fst01092779
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Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
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France -- Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
(OCoLC)fst01207045
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| Chronological Term |
1900-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781594634758 (hardcover) |
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1594634750 (hardcover) |
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