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Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World

Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World

by Mark Fritz (Author)

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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 2000
ISBN 10: 0415926092
ISBN 13: 9780415926096

Media Reviews
To make real the usually hidden human dimension of the high politics we read about in the morning paper; to show people's stories to be interconnected and overlapping with others whose existence they can barely fathom; to provide food for empathy--all are ambitious and important tasks that Fritz accomplishes with flair.
- Current History
Fritz lays out his tales of refugees and refugee workers with a short-story master's feel for character and plot... while [the refugees'] hardships obviously matter to him, what captures his imagination and his skill is their personalities. His portraits of the uprooted encompass natives of lands as diverse as Germany and Iraq and Togo and Bosnia, but no one he writes about seems foreign; he puts us in his subjects' shoes by showing us how very much like us they are. (And he drives home the point that there is no longer anything anomalous about their experience, reporting that in the mid-1990s, roughly one out of every 100 people on the planet was forcibly uprooted from home.) He also has a gift for making tangled clashes...easy to follow without talking down in the process. Although Fritz's subject matter is cruel, his book is strangely delightful-- on one level an outcry against acts of inhumanity, but on another a celebration of our common humanity.
- Salon
Fritz has laced this easily read and absorbing book with vignettes of refugees' journeys across borders and into lands they had no idea they ever would see. So many news stories have passed before our eyes in the last decade that we need a book like this.
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A vivid account and thoughtful examination of history's largest human migration...All toooften, these are the stories that go ignored by the American media; one must praise Fritz for bringing them to light.
- Kirkus Reviews
unfolds like a series of loosely interconnected short stories. He writes with street-wise empathy for his dislocated subjects.
- Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Mark Fritz has won numerous prizes and awards for his writing, including the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Rwanda, and his dispatches were selected for Best Newspaper Writing: 1995. He is currently a national correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, based in New York.