A collection of five fiction stories, rooted in factual events, that examines the social aspects of science during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Conflict and resentments break out in a small Adirondack town in the fall of 1916 when Miles Fairchild, a wealthy resident living in a "cure cottage" while being treated for tuberculosis, decides to start a discussion group with patients--mostly poor European immigrants--confined in the state-run sanatorium.
A collection of short stories that interweaves historical and fictional characters moving between past and present as they discuss ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams.
Spanning two centuries, a collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of the characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.
Conflict and resentments break out in a small Adirondack town in the fall of 1916 when Miles Fairchild, a wealthy resident living in a "cure cottage" while being treated for tuberculosis, decides to start a discussion group with patients--mostly poor European immigrants--confined in the state-run sanatorium.
Scholar-naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells becomes witness to the wild, disturbing beauties of the Arctic when he accompanies the crew of the Narwhal on their voyage to that last unexplored territory.
