A Country Without Names

A Country Without Namesnbsp;offers A Conspectus Of Human Activity From Its Earliest Imagined Days And The Formation Of Agrarian State Sedentism To Our Own Day. Its Tesserae, Gathered From Beyond The Boundaries Of A Single Country Or Culture, Constitute A Mosaic In Which Might Be Gleaned All The Fury And Fatuity Of The Pursuit Of That Gilded Phantasmagoria Of A Just And Beneficent State. Whilst A Certain Sombreness - Fromnbsp;flowering Midnights Dark Elegy For The English Pastoral Lyric, To The Fate Of Congos Patrice Lumumba In The Contemporary, And Near Contemporary, Political Parallels Animatingnbsp;under Jui-yi Shannbsp;- Imbues The Collection It Should Be Seen, However, As No More Than The Corollary Of An Unsentimental Probing Of Experience, In A Collection Which Is Both Paean For The Natural World And Indictment Of Those Human Qualities And Structures Which Threaten It.