{"id":12750,"date":"2017-12-12T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=12750"},"modified":"2017-12-12T13:10:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T20:10:53","slug":"whats-on-your-reading-list-christine-siddoway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2017\/12\/whats-on-your-reading-list-christine-siddoway\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s on Your Reading List, Christine Siddoway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We asked Professor of Geology Christine Siddoway<\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>What\u2019s on Your Reading List?<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I am rereading a favorite book: \u201cFull Tilt,\u201d an account of a solo cycling trip from Dunkirk to Delhi, undertaken in the late 1950s. The author, Dervla Murphy, in her early 20s at that time, departed Ireland and rode her bicycle across Europe and the Balkans, then via the Middle East to Afghanistan \u2014 regions that we now associate with conflict, suppression of human rights, and desertification. It\u2019s a book that I sometimes give as a \u201cfare well\u201d gift to a female student who I\u2019ve come to know well, upon her graduation. Dervla celebrates cultural differences and, to the extent she was able, as a citizen of the Commonwealth in the 1950s, dispels stereotypes that cause suspicion and mistrust between people of different backgrounds. I\u2019m contemplating whether the book might have new relevance at present, in this time of divisiveness among populations in the U.S. and globally.<\/p>\n

My copy of \u201cFull Tilt\u201d is a hardcover, first edition from 1959. There is a library card pocket inside the back cover, and the flyleaf is embossed \u2014 these give glimpses into the trajectory of the book itself, to me, via a library in Panama City, Panama, and a personal collection in New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We asked Professor of Geology Christine Siddoway What\u2019s on Your Reading List? I am rereading a favorite book: \u201cFull Tilt,\u201d an account of a solo cycling trip from Dunkirk to Delhi, undertaken in the late 1950s. The author, Dervla Murphy, in her early 20s at that time, departed Ireland and rode her bicycle across Europe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-12750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-2017","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12752,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions\/12752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}