Michael Spooner Livres

Set during the smallpox epidemic of 1837, this is the powerful story of a mixed-race girl--half white and half Native American--fighting her way into adulthood against all odds.

Although the sand crabs try in many ways to get rid of Old Meshikee the turtle, they are not as clever as he and so fail to end his drumming.

„With the current flourishing of architectural design research, the time is ripe to consider the role of writing in defining a new relation to design, one not of opposition, negation, or subjugation, where writing documents, comments and critiques the inventiveness of design, but rather where writing is employed as a technique alongside drawing and other spatial and visual processes as a speculative design strategy. In confronting the limits of both architectural research and academic writing, words - fictive, poetic, philosophical - can play off images and in so doing reconfigure architectural design research. there is no finer an example of how exquisite such work can be than this project by Michael Spooner, which is witty, erudite, precise and highly imaginativ.“ - Professor Jane Rendell, VIce Dean of Research, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London A Clinic for the Exhausted commences from a vision of a landmark Australian architectural icon, RMIT University Building 8 by Edmond & Corrigan, apprehended as an ocean liner taking leave of its concrete moorings. Conceived as both a literary and a architectural project, A Clinic for the Exhausted ministers to an architecture of unforeseeable effect, and attempts to ascertain how one can architecturally act on behalf of the unknowable.

1000 Meilen durch Indianerland Missouri, 1844. Eines Nachts hört Daniel im Halbschlaf eine seltsame Stimme, die ihn auffordert, seinem Vater zu helfen, der in den Rocky Moutains in Schwierigkeiten steckt. Daniel hört auf den Ruf und schließt sich einem der vielen Siedler-Trecks an. Die Strapazen der Reise sind fast unerträglich und Daniel wird zudem noch von dem gefährlichen Outlaw Haggard verfolgt, den er bei einem Pferdediebstahl beobachtet hat. Doch er findet auch Freunde - den freigekauften Sklaven Johnny und die Halbindianerin Rosalie, die ihm so manchen Nerv raubt.