Principles and Applications of Aquatic Chemistry

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Presents aquatic chemistry in a way that is truly useful to those with diverse backgrounds in the sciences. Major improvements to this edition include a complete rewrite of the first three background chapters making them user-friendly. There is less emphasis on mathematics and concepts are illustrated with actual examples to facilitate understanding.

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Aquatic Chemistry text for introductory course.......2002-04-20

I used this text for a one-quarter introductory Aquatic Chemistry course. The tableau method to solve equilibrium problems was positively received only by about half the students. Other texts used for this course are Pankow and Stumm and Morgan. (None of them were free of difficulties. Stumm and Morgan still serves as the best reference; but readability is a problem for an introductory course.) Morel does a good job in the treatment of metal ion kinetics.

The worst book ever.......2000-09-24

There aren't many good things to say about this book (except that I got rid of it). You have to read it with the authors around you to get a clue what they're talking about.

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Easy reading!

Genesis 1 literlaism wilts

Balancing the Young Earth vs. Evolution Debate

honest seekers

worthwhile to read and to share

Paradigms on Pilgrimage: Creationism, Paleontology and Biblical Interpretation
Stephen, J. Godfrey , and Christopher, R. Smith
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In this book the two authors recount the pilgrimages of understanding that have led them from the young-earth, "scientific creationist" position they were taught in their youths to new perspectives on what it can mean to believe in God as Creator. Dr. Godfrey describes the field work he has done as a descriptive paleontologist and the successive paradigm shifts that his discoveries led him through as he sought new ways to understand what he had been taught in light of the evidence he was uncovering. Dr. Smith describes how the integration of his background and training in literary studies with his work in biblical interpretation similarly led him to a new way of understanding the Bible, especially the early chapters of Genesis. The book as a whole presents an alternative way of understanding how the Bible and natural history relate to one another. Dr. Godfrey and Dr. Smith have both given seminars and presentations on the topic of this book in church and academic settings. This book will be of personal interest and practical use to college students and college-educated adults who have evangelical or fundamentalist backgrounds and who are seeking to integrate the study of the Bible with a commitment to academic and scientific inquiry.

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Easy reading!.......2007-07-05

This book took me a couple of days to read at a leisurely pace. I found the material very interesting and easy to read. Basically, this book explains how these two men (a theologian and a paleontologist)came to the conclusion that the bible's interpretation of history is not literal. A thorough treatment of this process is described in this book. Throughout they rationalize how there faith still remains intact. Although, I didn't agree with these authors, I found there points very interesting and worthy of consideration. My only criticism is that they conclude that creationism is completely unscientific. They obviously don't have all the facts; especially considering some of the recent advances in readioisotope dating and other models that astrophysicists and geologists have made. In my opinion, if the bible can't be taken literally then the whole of it is unreliable. There cannot be any rationalizations. As a scientist myself, I don't feel threatened and thus compelled to comrpromise my beliefs because I don't have all the answers.

Genesis 1 literlaism wilts .......2007-01-04

There are many books which usefully show how science and hermeneutics are complementary in learning about God and his world, most come from those who have worked out why and how this is so and present their conclusions. This book is fascinating because it follows the process of slowly-developing understanding in two people, both well-indoctrinated young-Earth creationists - one a palaeontologist and one a biblical scholar and pastor. They eventually achieve a much fuller and more coherent understanding of what it means to believe in God as creator.

Both authors come from Christian communities where a living faith in Christ is inexorably bound up with a literalist view of Genesis 1, so that admitting the veracity of any scientific insight on origins is almost apostasy. But little by little the impossibility of giving credence to elements of the creationist position loosened that nexus. Purpose in creation was distinguished from process.

For Dr Godfrey, the fossil evidence became glaringly irreconcilable with the pontifications of flood-catastrophists, starting with fossil footprints and moving to how suites of organisms occurred together, evidently at different time to other suites. Successive paradigm shifts are well described. Liberation comes as he understands that while the Bible teaches that "God sends the rains", this has never been an impediment to scientific understanding of the hydrological cycle by Christians, and there appears to be no bogey of "atheistic meteorology" promulgated in the US churches. Why should evolution be any more atheistic than meteorology? - or inimical to perceiving God as sovereign creator?

For Dr Smith, his work in literary studies and biblical studies led him to new understanding of the early part of Genesis and its literary conventions. He also explains how comparison of the creation accounts of Genesis 1 and 2 in Hebrew make it clear that promoting either as a chronological or scientific account does violence to the meaning. His realisation that the cosmology of Genesis is observational or phenomenological rather than objective underlines all this.

Following the personal accounts, Dr Smith deals with some questions raised in them. First, if the Bible is written in an observational mode which does not hold water scientifically, how can it be reliable in forming our understanding of God? And what are the implications of perceiving science and scripture as complementary, especially in relation to biological evolution? These chapters are useful in the book, but better expositions are to be found elsewhere.

A conclusion "Genesis cosmology and its implications" in 15 pages goes through the Genesis 1 creation account drawing upon many relevant passages from the Bible and insights from elsewhere. The chapter finishes by drawing out implications for scientists and for students.

The book gently leads the reader from one side of the creationism dispute to the other at a level easily comprehensible by the kind of students likely to be hung up on such issues, and does so with a valuable balance of science and hermeneutics. Personally I would have liked to see a little more pushing of epistemology bridging the gap. But it will be a good book to have on campuses and in churches with intelligent readers.

Ian Hore-Lacy
6/1/06

Balancing the Young Earth vs. Evolution Debate.......2006-11-28

If you are looking for a book that reinforces evolution, this is the book for you.

If you are looking for a book that reinforces the Biblical creation, this is the book for you.

This book will change your mind about the Creation vs. Evolution Debate.

This book is a refreshingly honest and personal view of the Young Earth Creationists versus Evolutionists debate. The authors use paleontological evidence (many examples were personally witnessed) and Biblical backing to illustrate an emotionally and intellectually challenging journey. The narrative is chronological and thoughtful; it follows the logical thinking of a person brought up as a Young Earth Creationist and studying to be a paleontologist.

I met one of the authors during a college lecture series on Darwin, and was amazed (and relieved) to find a scientist who was willing to consider the Bible as evidence for science and to search for the science in his personal faith.

If you are tired of the typical Science vs. Religion Debate and want to find a common ground, start here with Paradigms on Pilgrimage.

honest seekers.......2006-10-20

These are 2 personal stories on why the evidence of nature and Scripture convinced them that the Young Earth Creation methodology was flawed. They show you how they were (in some sense) finding what they did not expect to find and how these resulting in shifting paradigms on how they viewed the scientific study of nature and the interpretation of Scripture.

Highly recommended. I would read anything by these authors.

worthwhile to read and to share.......2006-09-29

This is a part of my continuing interest in the Creation-Evolution-Design (CED) debate. It is however a bit off my usual reading schedule, it is in the genre of personal stories, of transition from young earth creationism (YEC) to something else. I don't usually read personal stories or books with substantial personal involvement, i prefer to spend my time on science and ideas rather than with people's personal struggles. This was an online recommendation that i took seriously and am frankly glad i did. It is not a spectacularly argued book, careful but not with great flashes of insight, more understated and calmly through the years type of analysis. It has as a goal not to discourage people from reading the whole thing, not to push hot buttons and have people just put the book down in disgust and move on. It has a goal of personal involvement and sympathetic identification with the authors as they tell you their journeys in the field, and as such it is very well done. Don't read this for big ideas in the CED debate, for great pieces of refutation you can take to the online boards, it isn't that type of a book. What it is, is a gentle, kindly story of two rather smart and sensitive men studying how their youthful background ought to interact with their adult callings and their studies of both God's World and God's Word over time and with increasing maturity and sensitivity to nuance.

I'd recommend this to every YEC, to anyone who struggles with the issues in CED, to anyone who reads Genesis and asks real hard questions. It is designed for this audience, it is very sympathetic to their concerns and sensitivities, and ought not to upset even the most hard boiled YECist. I'd just read it front to back, in order, not because the chapters are in a logical and necessary order requiring this, but because the author's have given some real thought to how important ideas interact and structure the book to be such a journey. It really is best just read as a novel, then go back and highlight and read for detail. Just breeze through the first time for the passion and the pain the authors wish to transfer to the reader as their story of their studies.

Outline and pull-quotes

Introduction:
"Many believing Christians have experienced crises of faith, and personal rejections when they have chosen to accept an account of origins that is based on reasoned interpretation of centuries of scientific observation, because this account does not coincide with a literal interpretation of Genesis." pg 11
"but this way to a middle position has been made perilous by the bitter polarization between proponents of 'either/or" positions on both sides."
"in its place they have embraced understandings that are more modest, tentative, and nuanced, but ultimately also more satisfying, durable and empowering." pg 12
"of how the Bible's moral teaching can be considered reliable when its cosmology and other scientific claims must be recognized as derived from a primitive, observational perspective."
"after demonstrating that this account's cosmology is indeed phenomenological(it describes how things appear, rather than how they actually are), the authors explore the implications"pg 14
"This occurs when people who are not familiar with the Bible mistakening equate creationist claims, which are ultimately untenable with the Bible's actual teachings." pg 16
"Although it felt as if they were abandoning their faith, as a step of faith they began to trust the fruits of the vocations to which God had called them, rather than the dogmatic pronouncements that had always provided such security up to that point. The end result has been to trade security for adventure in the continuing life of faith." pg 17

Part 1: Creationism and Paleontology, by Stephen J. Godfrey
Chapter 1: The dog skeleton and my grandmother's toothbrush
"to answer this question first by engaging the book of Genesis, rather than the theory of evolution. I was raised in an evangelical Christain home. We considered the concept of evolution a rival to the Bible's explanation of the origins of biological diversity. We equated it with man's attempt to deny the existence of God."
"evolution proclaimed an "ateleology," or absence of inherent purpose in the created world. Therefore, by implication and overt affirmation, anyone who espoused a belief in evolution necessarily had abandoned belief in the existence of God and had a strictly naturalistic and mechanistic view of the universe."
"The appeal of evolutionary theory to the atheist, we were taught, lay in its apparent ability to absolve man of his moral responsibility to an almight God who had created all that there is." pg 23
"my trust in the Bible as a book of divine origin hinged at that time upon the expectation that when it spoke on matters relating to science, its statements would be accurate by today's standards, rather than reflecting the observational perspective of the culture in which it was composed. Establishing objective scientific accuracy in a book from ancient times would prove that the author had been given some supernatural or divine insight with the natural realm, and this would be a sign to indicate that when the Bible spoke on matters relating to morality, it drew on the same supernatural, authoritative source." pg 31-2

Chapter 2: Those fossilized footprints in kansas
"It would be difficult for me to overstate the impact these simple fossilized fooprint impressions had upon me. In retrospect, I don't think anything else I have ever seen has so profoundly changed my life." pg 39
"Many years later, as I read more widely on the history of the development of geology, I discovered that some nineteenth-century geologists had suggested that the Flood had been a quiet one, leaving no significant geological effects. They had been pushed to suggest this alternative in an attempt to preserve the historical reality of the story, while admitting that they were unable to identify global effects of Noah's Flood. Having never seen this alternative suggested in any creationist literature, I was impressed with the ingenuity of these nineteenth-century geologists." pg 43
"Once i entertained the notion that the earth migh be old, I had to call into question all the rest of the 'scientific creationist' paradigm. Why? Because it was all based on a single lynchpin claim about the age of the earth. ... matters of eternal importance were on the line. After all, the paradigm was based on the explicit statement that the truth of the entire Bible hinged on the scientific accuracy of a literal rendering of the first chapters of Genesis" pg46
"Footprint fossils spoke to me personally as silent witnesses to the great antiquity of this planet." pg 52

Chapter 3: same place, different times-or same time, different places?
"any given organism will only be found with certain other organism, and only in certain areas." pg 57
"the proof that the answer is 'same place, different times' lies in the observation that the vast majority of fossils are preserved at or very near to where they lived." pg 61
"I knew now that in their vast majority different kinds of organisms had lived at different times on earth." pg 71

Chapter 4: what did it mean to create?
"How many times had God created new kinds of organisms, and when had He done so?" pg 73
"I would have been content to believe that God had miraculuously created every species instantaneoulsy at different times in the geological past, except that I could not help but notice the lines paleontologists were drawing connecting fossils so as to describe evolutionary lineages." pg 74
"Perhaps a created kind could encompass all the species that we currently place within a genus, or even all the species and genera within a taxonomic family. ... So maybe no originally created kind boundaries had been bridged. ... As appealing as this second possibility was, I recognized that to embrace it would be to take another significant step away from my creationist origins." pg 79
"it seemingly removed God from being a necessary link in the creative process?"
"First, there were bridging morphologies between major groups of organisms, such as dinosaurs and birds. Second, it was also true that similar organisms were more likely to occur close together in geologic time than they were to be separated by vast amounts of time." pg 81
"I felt as though God as a proximal agent in the creation of life, was being removed from the creative process. This belief was too fundamental a conviction for me to waltz away from without emotional consequences." pg 82

Chapter 5: atheistic meteorolgoy of divine rain?
"I wondered what part a person of faith should consider God to play in sending rain. Furthermore what part, if not all, of meteorology should we not bother studying, because therein lies the domain of God, a realm beyond scientific study."
"for our lack of consistency when it came to biblical interpretation. I realized at that time that we were content to let natural processes account for precipitation, but when it came to the origin of biological diversity, we were adamant that no natural processes could or would ever be found to account for something the Bible attributed to the actions of God." pg 84
"If none of these came to us from a close reading of the Bible, but rather from a careful study of nature, then we should reasonably expect to have to study nature at least as closely to learn anything about the mechanisms that generated biological diversity, especially in the light of the fact that the Bible is also silent on the natural mechanisms of evolution." pg 85
"So how have Christians reconciled meteorology with the Bible's clear message that God is responsible for the production of rain? " pg 86
"For me, the question of the origin of biological diversity no longer necessarily carries with it any theological baggage. It is simply a scientific question. Put it another way, the question of orgins is only as theological as the origin of rain." pg 88
"it would be intellectually lazy, and unscientific, to claim that it simply must have happened as a result of direct, supernatural intervention by God." pg 89

Part 2: Creationism and Biblical Interpretation
Christopher R. Smith

Chapter 6: Limericks and Epics
"The result was that the mainline Christian theology I had learned to that point was quickly supplemented by an amalgam of fundamentalist, evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic perspectives." pg 96
"I continued to approach the Bible in the way typical of the broad movement within which I had come to a personal faith in Christ, as if it could be read meaningfully a verse here and a verse there. ... shaping principle... They were unresolved because because they were unresolvable with the paradigm for biblical interpretation I shared with my Christian community, in which isolated verses or passages were read literally and non-contextually." pg 99-100
"Nevertheless, I continued to believe that Genesis 1 was a exact description of the events of the first six days of the physical creation. If I had had to account for light without the sun on the first three days, I would have appealed to some supernatural agency." pg 101

Chapter 7: Meredith Kline and the "Framework" View
"I sat back in awe as he spoke: he was brilliant, and a meticulous scholar, but his deep faith and Christ-like character shone through everything he said and did. This was a rare combination. I felt it set a standard toward which I should aspire."
"His theological commitments, strong as they were, were not primary, he was first and foremost a biblical scholar, and he carried out his scholarship specifically through a careful reading of the text." pg 106
"The was probably the first time I had seen that if we want to interpret the Bible accurately and credibly, we need to approach it on its own terms, that is, by understanding and respecting the literary conventions according to which it was written." pg 108
"what does the Bible say about how God sustained the creation while it was in process? Was this through supernatural agencies, or through natural providence?" pg 109
"This did not sit well with me, as the premise of supernatural agency was the key to my literal reading."
"He first made the case that the opening creation account in Genesis must be considered 'poetry'." alliteration, assonance, parallelism pg 110
"There was a amazing depth of meaning I had never appreciated before in the account of the days of creation. This passage was not so much a description of how we got here as an explanation of why we were here. It had a moral purpose, challenging humans to acknowledge God's' supreme lordship, despite their pretensions to self-determination and self-sufficiency." pg 111
"to portray Jesus as coming at the beginning of the seventh seven of generations after Abraham, the generation of sabbath or jubilee? pg 112
"that i did not necessarily have to make a stark choice between a creationist paradigm (unscientific but moral) in which people are accountable to God for how they treat others, and an evolutionary one (scientific, but amoral), in which life consists of a ruthless quest for domination." pg 114
"We need to witness and participate in the 'Sabbath enthronement of God' as the culmination of creation." pg 115-6
"(by non-literal I mean one in which words and phrases are not necessarily descriptions, even figurative ones, of historical events.)"
"My main point was that the prevailing belief about natural history had changed first, in response to the 'spirit of the age' or Zeitgeist that emphasized 'progress'". pg 116

Chapter 8: was Adam created before or after the animals?
"The only conclusion I could come to was that he did not understand himself to be writing history, contrary to our characteristic expectations of his work. The implications were profound. It was not necessary to struggle to match up the Genesis narratives with the events of natural and human history! Something else was going on in the pages of this inspired ancient book." pg122
"The final effect is the portrayal of Jesus as arriving at (indeed, as constituting) the beginning of a time of spiritual rest and renewal in the life of the nation (corresponding to the concepts of 'sabbath' and 'jubilee' in the Old Testament), Genealogy provides the canvas on which this portrait is painted, but what we have before us is clearly closer to art than history." pg 123
"the the purpose especially of these early chapters was to explain the brokenness of human existence as the cumulative result of alienation from God." pg 125
"how God's crative activity, as described solved a twofold problem ('the earth was without form and void') by making a place for everything and then putting everything in its place."
"we are God's stewards and vice-regents, meant to superintend creation, but specifically meant to do this in service to God, in whose sabbath enthronement we must participate." pg 126
"Like me, they had always been taught that the source of our confidence in the inspiration and authority of the Bible is that long ago everything really happened just as it describes, because it is speaking from a divine eyewitness perspective. But if a greater familiarity with the text discloses that the Bible is not always making historical statements-indeed, in some places connat be making them-the waht is the source of our confidence in it and especially in its' moral program? Whe not read any other collection of edifying tales, and be guided by their cumulative morality instead?" pg 128-9
"what is the source of our confidence in the Bible, if it doesn't make amazingly accurate natural scientific statements long before this was humanly possible?" pg 129
"But the solution, I saw more clearly than ever, was not let any religious or philosophical positions become confused with reasoned descriptions of scientific observations." pg 133
"The Bible is written from an observational perspective." "To me, there seems to be a providential purpose in the Bible's observational descriptions: they allow it to travel into every culture as the word of God." pg 134
"that the Bible's entire cosmology that is, its description of the universe around us, is consistently observational."
"In time I came to be amazed at how pervasive this observational 'cosmology' was in the Bible, but even more so at how indifferent I and others had been to it while at the same time being very concerned about reconciling the Bible's 'cosmogony' or its description of how the universe came to be, with scientific descriptions. Why the double standard? Why did we not bat an eyelash at observational cosmology, but insist on the literal truth of what migh be a similiarly observation cosmogony?" pg 135-6
"their descriptions must rathe be intended essentially as literal, given the limiations on the observations they and their contemporaries could have made. The biblical authors do not appear to have been granted supernatural insights into the non-apparent facts of cosmology." pg 136
"This leaves open the question, of course, of how the biblical writers, if they truly were inspired by God, could have been 'wrong' at least by contemporary scientific standards, as they described how the world came to be." pg 138

Chapter 9: it says somewehre, 'God rested'
"They all attribute to a supernatural casue(the action of God) results which, the more closely one studies them, appear more and more to have come about through natural process. ... This does not mean that God is not the actor; it simply means that God has not chosen to use a radically different proces to bring about what is nevertheless a divine product." pg 139
"on something other than the inevitably disappointing premise that it bears magical signs pointing to its divine origin." pg 140
"but that the God who superintends and overrules human affairs has demonstrated His unchanging character consistently through time and has revealed more and more of his purposes while reaffirming the earlier-revealed ones." pg 143
"the significance of 'intertextuality,' that is, of the new meanings texts take on when they are read in the presence of other texts."
"Has God really promised us that his word can be recognized as his word even without faith?" pg 145
"If God were going supernaturally to override ordinary human weaknesses in the compostion process in order to signal a divinely inspired product, this would have been an awfully good place to intervene!" pg 146

Chapter 10: fishing in the middle of the lake
"If it's the same lake, that is, the work of the same God being viewed through different faculties (reason and faith), there ought not to be any essential differences in what the nature of this work implies about the character and action of that God." pg 153
"What are the issues, then, that we must take up as we consider whether natural history as sketched by biological science today is theologically compatible with the history of creation and redemption as narrated in the Bible?" pg 154
"imitative of God's creative activity in restraining the wildness of the unformed universe and creating order and harmony." pg 156
"So we should understand that God views all life as valuable in itself and for its own sake." pg 157
"But Jesus exhibited the qualities of both justice and mercy, in keeping with the self-disclosure of God throughout the Bible." pg 158
"The Genesis creation account itself is one of God shaping and ordering an already existing chaotic mass, rather than one of strictly ex nihilo creation" pg 159
"We see in these chapters that what is unique about humans is not the process by which they come about, but rather the purpose for which God makes them."
"human possession of a soul...human reception of a divine commission to superintend the earth...human capacity for relationships..."pg 161
"From the biblical perspective, however, 'better' does not mean more complex or capable; it means more in keeping with God's intentions, which are for rightly-ordered relationship among all creatures."
"the human race develops into a civilization whose cultural achievements are increasingly more complex, but in which relationships become more and more disordered." pg 169
"the biblical understanding of the curse is that it consists primarily in disordered relationships, in the fracturing of God's shalom." pg 171
"I do not believe we can understand the human condition rightly if we do not posit an essential disordering of relationship with God, others, and self that has had cumulative devastating effects on our physical, social, mental, emotinal, and spiritual health, effects that are leading us to have an equally devastating effect on the world around us." pg 172

Conclusion
both authors

Conclusion: Genesis cosmology and its implications

"the original audience of the Genesis creation account would have heard and understood it in the way just presented." pg 177
"a 21st-century cosmological understanding. His reading was suffering from the proverbial 'paradigm effect'. Therefore, in rereading the creation account, he made a conscious effort to forget what he knew about the structure of our solar system and the universe beyond." pg 178
"it brightened everything up considerably, but he realized that if he had not known that this diffuse dawn and dusk light came from the sun, there would have been no reason for him to believe that it did" pg 181
"But the simplest explanation is that it means the light that appears in the sky before the sun rises and remains in the sky after the sun sets, fading waay until it can be seen no more." pg 182
"One way to summarize our argument is this: if you feel that you must believe in a young earth on the basis of a commitment to a literal reading of Genesis, you must also believe in a flat earth on that same basis."
"So all those who are called to scientific enterprise should pursue that calling without fear or doubt, but rather with joy and enthusiasm. "pg 193
"That is, the Genesis author does not demonstrate knowledge far beyond what he could have had in the time and culture in which he lived. Like his contemporaries, he had little idea how vast and complex the universe actually is."
"contrast two statements: Because the Bible is scientifically accurate, it's the word of God. Because the Bible is the word of God, it's scientifically accurate. .. the expectation that the 'word of God' will reflect the divine omniscience of its ultimate Author." pg 194
"the Genesis author does not seem to be aware of the limitations of his own knowledge. In other words, not only does he not know, he does not know that he does not know. While his descriptions of creation and cosmology is phenomenological, he believes it to be objectively accurate." pg 196
"All-or-nothing thinking rarely leads us to the truth, which we typically find nestled in a more elsuvie and nuanced place." pg 197
"Whike the human authors of the Bible would have had limitations when it came to their knowledge of the natural world, they would not necessarily have had similar limiations when it came to knowing God, relationally and experientially."
"Rather, real people, immersed in real places and times, have left us a record, inspired by God himself, of how they came into a life-transforming relatinship with their Creator." pg 199

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It makes you think.....and laugh........1999-10-07

I came across this volume by accident,never heard of the book nor its authors, never seen a review.Why no reviews? The book is a pearl. It is Roald Dahl, Woody Allen, Edgar Allan Poe and then some... Maupassant perhaps? The most delightful book Ive read in a long time. It contains a series of vignettes, short stories really, about the various and assorted characters, aunts, cousins, grandparents etc. of a large and very expansive family over the last century or so. There are photographs of them all, some of the pictures very amusing to boot. There's uncle Henry, Philippe, Big Mort, Aunt Tilly, Borge and of course Aristide who managed in his lifetime to drink a bottle of red wine from just about every chateau or domaine in France. This story, "Plonk" is about the finest wine story I've ever read. The book straddles a fine line, at times outright hilarious, yet always believable. Now and agin I wondered if this was fact or fiction, at times it difficult to decide, which just makes the whole enterprise that much more delightful. There is also a number of black sheep. Alphonse, who in the early part of the Century escapes his native France and sets up a meat canning factory in Arizona and becomes the "Goulash Baron of All the Americas". The period is very well invoked and the story unfurls with surprising twists and a bittersweet finale. There"s Philippe who gets lost in a labyrinth of his own making. Theres Aunt Tiily who uses her womanly wiles to solve the Cuban Missile Crisis, Uncle Henry, who at the ripe age of 68 enters the Olympics in Berlin in 1936. There's Borge, who manages to fool Luftwaffe Marshall Goering, and in the process save a stash of cigarettes and coffee. A very funny book.

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