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Art critic John Ruskin enthusiastically proclaimed her potential as one of the best artists of the nineteenth century, but Lilias Trotter's devotion to Christ compelled her to surrender her life of art, privilege, and leisure. Leaving the home of her wealthy parents for a humble dwelling in Algeria, Lilias defied sterotypes and taboos that should have deterred any European woman from ministering in a Muslim country. Yet she stayed for nearly forty years, befriending Algerian Muslims with her appreciation for literature and art and winning them to Christ through her life of love.
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Amazing pioneer missionary.......2007-04-14
I just finished reading this book and was so impressed with the astonishing results this woman achieved because of her total surrender to God's plans. An accomplished young artist from an upper class Victorian family, she left the comforts of England and went into Algeria, a country inhabitated by Arabs who were mostly Muslim. It was a slow but steady start, because of language problems, government interference (because of suspicions about missionaries motives), and just the differences in the different ways of thinking and lifestyles of the Algerian people.
Lilias spent several decades of her life doing the "basics" in securing the beginnings of a life long ministry among a people hungry for deep spiritual lessons, but finding ways to do this required much patience, thought and forgiveness. And on top of all this, she is dealing with a new language, both spoken and written.
The majority of this book is taken from Lilias's copius journals, letters and writings where she kept records of what she was involved in day by day.
I learned a lot about what the foreign missionary effort entails, and especially when you're the first to go into an area with some brand new ideas where life is so different. But she won them over slowly with her love. As time went on, she had much help from other women and men who worked with her in this cause.
The last couple of decades her health was not good, but she just kept on plugging away, even writing from her bed the last two years.
She wrote some beautiful booklets that have profound lessons of faith and obedience in them. "Parables of the Cross" and "Parables of the Christ Life" are just two of them.
She gleaned such meaningful lessons from nature, things that the ordinary person would hardly think of. She could see great lessons from a grain of wheat, a peach, a bee, etc. She looked deeply into the whys and wherefores of the lessons that nature has to teach us.
Lilias really had a heart for these people and she felt that God gave her that heart and she was to do what she could as well as she could for as long as she could. She was true to that effort.
One thing I wished this book had was a map of the area that showed all the little towns and outposts that were mentioned in the book, and were developed over many years and many travels.
This book is a good read, even though you are dealing with some new words and another way of thinking. You will learn a lot and wish you had known this woman who was totally devoted to God.
This Biography of Lilias Trotter is Unique and Definitive.......2004-02-29
As the premier art critic in Victorian England, John Ruskin was the arbiter of taste. In 1883 he revealed a hard-to-believe prejudice: "For a long time I used to say . . . that except in a graceful and minor way, women could not draw or paint." Ruskin then discounted this view, based on his reaction to the art of a young woman named Lilias Trotter: "I'm beginning lately to bow myself to the much more delightful conviction that no one else can" draw or paint.
In a 1960s book, RUSKIN TODAY, Sir Kenneth Clark mentioned Trotter as someone lost to history. But Clark hadn't turned over every leaf, as has biographer Miriam Rockness, who discovered Trotter through bequeathed volumes of her out-of-print illustrated books.
A bright, talented daughter of a prominent stockbroker in London, Lilias Trotter (1853-1928) was comfortable in the company of privilege. At age 21 she was among guests, including George MacDonald and Bishop Wilberforce, invited to a religious retreat, the forerunner of the Keswick Conferences.
Spiritually stirred by this and the preaching of Dwight Moody, Lilias grew discontent with the in-vogue "charity from a distance." For more than 10 years in London, she devotedly worked to help establish a hostel for working women, the forerunner of the YWCA.
During this time, while on vacation in Venice, her meddling mother asked Ruskin to look at Lilias's watercolor paintings --- a request that led to art lessons, weekend invitations, and extended conversations and correspondence between the Miss and the Master, who claimed she could be the greatest painter of her generation if she would "give herself up to art." To the dismay of many, Lilias turned her back on Ruskin's challenge: "I cannot give myself to painting in the way he means and continue still to 'seek first the Kingdom of God.' "
When Lilias was 35, this whole-spirited commitment dramatically "called" her to mission work in northern Africa. With two female colleagues --- none knowing Arabic, none robust enough to pass physicals required by established mission boards --- she sailed for Algeria, where she lived a life of saintly proportions until her death, at age 75.
Two-thirds of Rockness's biography delves into the Algerian years. Learning Arabic was the first of many challenges: Muslim resistance to a Christian message, French resistance to British interlopers, male resistance to a female witness. And yet under Trotter's leadership, the original missionary band and later recruits translated portions of scripture, distributed literature, befriended women and children, opened cafés for men, and hosted summer camps for nomadic families.
There are no imagined conversations in this book; there's no mistaking it for a novel. This is history, relying largely on journals, with some analysis and helpful foreshadowing. Ever aware of Lilias the artist, Rockness faithfully describes the palette of the desert so well that it's hard to distinguish Lilias the missionary from Lilias the artist.
In time Lilias envisioned a "new approach to Arab literature": writings that would speak to Algerians, instead of what Trotter called the "hitherto translated stories of Jacks & Bobs whose surroundings are as foreign to children of the east as their names" and finding an affordable means of color printing, so as to attract people who delighted in color. To meet these goals, Lilias wrote and illustrated nature parables that may soon be back in print, thanks to Rockness's persistence.
Some of the biography's most interesting material comes toward the end. In her last decade, Trotter won the respect of a group of Sufi (male) mystics. "The artist in her responded to the artist in the Sufis," notes Rockness. "Yet she never lost her spiritual focus." Confined to bed in the last two years, she wrote THE WAY OF THE SEVENFOLD SECRET, explaining to them seven "I Am" claims of Jesus --- as she managed what had become an extensive mission outreach.
Trotter's printed word and art can indeed inspire a new generation. But only those who knew her can appreciate "perhaps her most palpable legacy": her love. As an obituary noted, "No wonder that Catholics and Jews and Moslems, as well as Protestants, are mourning her loss, for love, in the end, wins love."
--- Reviewed by Evelyn Bence
A real life of faithfulness.......2002-01-14
There are few things that inspire me more than a true story of a child of God who is faithful in the face of success and apparent failure. I see the reality of this woman's walk with God to be the challenge and encouragement. The accounts of her passion, travels, and encounters challenge my perspective on missions. I don't believe I had a real grasp on missions until I read this book. The quotations of her own journals and other writings bring a special feeling of knowing Lilias by the end of the book. This is a book I highly encourage all believers to read.
Christian artists and creative types will love this book.......2000-11-10
I am a voracious reader of non-fiction (particularly Christian non-fiction), but out of thousands of books I have read, this biography captivated me like no other. Perhaps because I am a writer and artist, I could identify with Lilias and her passions. Ultimately, however, this is a story of adventure, sacrifice, surrender and uncompromising dedication to Jesus Christ, all set against the exotic backdrop of Algeria. I can't wait to meet Lilias in heaven and tell her how she inspired me. Of course, I also look forward to meeting the authors someday because they brought Lilias to life. The narrative is as lovely as Lilias' art!
An intriguing and thought provoking story, a good read........1999-04-30
This book does indeed weave a challenging and interesting tale of a pioneeer missionary, who for the sake of the gospel left a comfortable and gracious victorian life for a life of sacrifice in the northern deserts of Africa, among Muslim tribemen.It is carefully crafted and includes some prints of Lilias' own artwork, which from what can be seen, is lovely.I wish a book could be devoted to more prints and more about Lilias' travels!
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Sir Francis WalsinghamÂ's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was EnglandÂ's first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil ElizabethÂ's rival Mary Queen of Scots and outwit Catholic Spain and France, which had arrayed their forces behind her.
Though he cut an incongruous figure in ElizabethÂ's worldly court, Walsingham managed to win the trust of key players like William Cecil and the Earl of Leceister before launching his own secret campaign against the queenÂ's enemies. Covert operations were WalsinghamÂ's genius; he pioneered techniques for exploiting double agents, spreading disinformation, and deciphering codes with the latest code-breaking science that remain staples of international espionage.
In the taut narrative of a spy novel, Budiansky recounts how this legendary spymaster invented the art and science of modern espionage—and in the process set Elizabethan England on the path to empire.
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Let us look elsewhere for guidance........2007-10-04
Mr. Budiansky proposes that Elizabeth's spymaster Francis Walsingham offers us an example for conducting modern espionage. Yet the fact is, Elizabethan England was for all practical purposes a police state. Catholicism was deemed treasonous, and Walsingham's spies combed the countryside for practitioners of the "old religion," i.e., the faith that had been the taproot of English civilization for a thousand years. Catholics were barred from serving in Parliament, attending university, worshipping at Mass, and generally living the life their immediate forebears took for granted. And yet Budiansky holds up this tragedy as a model. Let us look elsewhere for guidance.
Disappointing Flop.......2007-06-07
After such a promising title, I was disappointed to make it more than half-way through this book and still have little mention of the title character and no information that seems pertinent to the supposed theme of the book. It is possible that toward the end Budiansky decided to actually make a point with his narrative, but between his abysmal sentence structure and his *sesquipedalian* use of gratuitously long words that broke up the even flow of reading, I personally was unmotivated to find out.
Entertaining History of Walsingham.......2007-01-15
Stephen Budiansky's "Her Majesty's Spymaster" is a very readable popular history of Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth I's personal secretary and informal chief of intelligence. Written in a breathless novelistic style, Budiansky captures the atmospherics and endless intigues of the Tudor period in a way designed to capture the interest of the average person without background in the era. He succeeds in making the religious struggles and dynastic wars of this distant period accessible to the modern reader.
Walsingham was unusual in his time in that he served in a high position in government without having come from the nobility. His rise from what would now be termed a middle class upbringing was based on education, talent, and good service. Walsingham turned out to be a superbly capable spymaster who could get and keep secrets and protect the fortunes of his Queen and country. Walsingham was especially effective in managing the English rivalry with France, including the dangerous problem of the status of Mary Queen of Scots, and the running conflict with Spain.
Budiansky is less than effective in making the case that Walsingham gave birth to modern espionage. Walsingham learned his craft from his mentor and predecessor, Lord Burghley, and his success was due less to inventing new methods of espionage than to making fewer mistakes than his contemporaries in executing already widely-known tactics and techniques.
This book is recommended to the casual reader looking for an introduction to the intrigues of the Elizabeath period. The close student of the history of the period will find no information that has not been covered in more detail elsewhere.
Budiansky does not accomplish his goal.......2006-12-04
The author tries to bring both the biography of Walsingham and a discussion of the birth of espionage together in the same book and succeeds at neither. It is a fine read if you would like a general overview of the time, but, after reading the title and reviews, I was hoping for a detailed biography of Walsingham or much detail on how he created the group of people who became his information gatherers. Instead, it is a general overview of Walsingham's life with references to the work that he did. There are some interesting facts that the author brings forward that the reader might not find elsewhere , but the majority of the reading is rehashed from biographies of Elizabeth I. If you want details and a better understanding of Walsingham the man, and his life work and actions, you will need to look elsewhere.
Entertaining but incomplete.......2006-11-25
I was hoping that this book serves as a biography for Sir Francis Walsingham but instead, it proves to be a career dossier on Walsingham. The book read like a historical novel of Walsingham's activities as Elizabeth I's ultimate spymaster. That review written by Lisa Jardine hit many marks right on the nail despite of her rather snobbish approach. The author centered much of the book around the Walsingham's most famous case against Mary, Queen of Scots. However, since the information proves to be pretty basic, you will not find any new insightful information here.
It seem regretful that the author missed his opportunity to write a good biography on Walsingham instead of writting a slightly generic book on his role as a spymaster. His relationship with Burgley, Dudley and with his own family proves to be very lightweight. There are hints of interest scattered all over this book and I guess for that reason, it may be worth your time to read it.
Overall, the actual rating may be closer to 2.80 stars if I had a choice.
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Title: Bloody Questions; The Elizabethan Settlement, and England's protracted Reformation.(Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage)(God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot)(Book review)
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Title: Budiansky, Stephen. Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage.(Book review)
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How have Arab political ideas and institutions evolved since the 1967 War? How have the Arabs contended with the external influences to which their wealth has exposed them? What are the implications of the rise of Islamic fundamentalism? Fouad Ajami seeks to answer these and related questions in his illuminating study of the constraints and possibilities facing the Arab world today. The book documents the political and intellectual response to the defeat of 1967 and surveys the choices facing the Arab world as exemplified by the case of Egypt. It seeks to explain the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism and locates its roots in the failures of the dominant political order, and the stalemate of secular political ideas. This revised edition of Ajami's acclaimed study has been updated and renews the book’s status as an indispensable guide to the politics of the Arab world.
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ONE MAN'S PAINED AND PASSIONATE LOOK INSIDE THE ARAB PSYCHE.......2007-05-03
I was both intellectually enlightened, and emotionally stirred by this excellent book. Fouad Ajami gives an insider's perspective on what it means and feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Pan-Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war. The author understands and well articulates the driving passions/influences, internal and external, which shaped and continue to move Arab life and politics. Until reading this, I had no idea what a seminal, and world view shattering event the defeat at the hands of Israel was to the Arab world at large.
Ajami is so articulate, so beautifully spoken, that I would seriously read him, even if he had nothing to say that interested me. I've read elsewhere of the intense and passionate beauty of Arabic as a language. This author, I think, somehow succeeds in communicating that passionate poignance through English prose.
If you're looking for a detached, theoretical overview of Arab society and politics: this is not it. If, however, you'd like to step inside one man's world and get a glimpse of reality as seen through his eyes and life experience... have at it...and enjoy.
A predicament surely!.......2006-06-12
Though written in 1980 and before, the book provides much insight into that region of the world. Historically, nothing changes, therefore the book is relevant. Mostly about Egypt, Ajami gives especially the American reader some background on how Egypt was viewed by the Europeans. His description returned me to the many newspaper and journal articles about Egypt, Egypt's leaders, friends and foes during the times of Nasser and Sadat.
I found the chapter on Islam especially enlightening, and it appropriately entitled "The rulers' Islam, Islam of the ruled." Many interesting quotes from various sources make this chapter maybe the most important one and surely very relevant for the present.
Offering Arab views inaccessible to Westerners, and some erroneous conclusions.......2005-07-17
Lebanese American Fouad Ajami is clearly an authority on Arab issues. His book is one of rare stock in the West as it summarizes social and political literature that is widely circulated in the Arab world but is not accessible to Western readers.
Ajami's peculiar writing style that flows in an entertaining manner adds flavor to the book. This is coupled with a kind of analysis that is in line with Western methodology but that sticks, at the same time, to viewing things from native Eastern eyes.
The only take against Ajami's work is his overgeneralization of the Egyptian Arab model arguing that it is enough for someone to understand Egypt, the mirror of the Arab world, in order to understand the rest of the Arab countries.
While this point is debatable, it does not confirm with the book's main argument that pan-Arabism that reached its climax under late Egyptian President Nasser, was merely a fantasy and an artificial front behind which Arab military dictatorships hid and under whose banner they repressed their peoples. If Arab nationalism was a mere fantasy, why did Ajami take Egypt as the mirror of 21 other nations?
Furthermore, Ajami's fascination with Egypt, despite its friendly dictatorship under Husini Mubarak sounds more of an apologetic rhetoric. If Egypt was as promising as Ajami believes, how come it never modernized 10 years after the printing of this book and is still considered one of the tyrannical regimes that breed popular frustration and ultimately terror groups.
In any case, other arguments pertaining to the reasons behind failure are accurate. These include Ajami's criticism of progressive secular thought of the so-called Arab revolutionaries that was never able to take off and thus conceded to and depended on the power of regressive traditional powers.
A well executed study of the problems of the Arab world.......2001-11-26
Fouad Ajami's objective for the book is simply stated in the title. His aim is to thoroughly analyze The Arab Predicament, with a specific focus on the problems of the Arab states since 1967. However, what does Ajami mean when he says, the Arab predicament? I believe his best definition of this is found on page 250. He states that the Arab predicament is the failure of an Arab order because of the lack of a cohesive political, social, and economic system that "makes people and societies behave justly or rationally". He asserts that this has led Arabs to turn back to the force they have the most trust in, their religious identity. Over the course of the book, Ajami analyzes in detail the reasons for this change, focusing on three overall themes that are roughly separated into the three parts of the book. The first theme is the complete failure of the `progressive' states and later with pan-Arabism. This in chronicled in the first part of the book titled One's world as it really is. The second theme of the book is the detachment of Egypt from the rest of the Arab world and Egypt as a predictor for things to come in the Arab world. This is found in the second part of the book labeled Egypt as state, as Arab mirror. The third part of the book seeks to clarify a theme that is an undercurrent of the two previous chapters: the Arab world's relationship with the West. This final chapter, called Fractured tradition: the claims of authenticity, the realities of dependence, explains the conflict between modernization and tradition, and how the Arab world is coping (or more precisely, failing to cope) with the impact of the modern world on the Arab states and its political, cultural, and economic systems.
I do believe Ajami has achieved his objectives that he sets out in his introduction to The Arab Predicament. He explains the fall of Nasserism and Ba'thism, he explores the path Egypt has taken since the Six Day War and why they have taken it, and he explores the conflict between Islamic fundamentalism and modernization, and the problems that the ruling elites and the Arab governments have contributed to this conflict by not giving their people an outlet for political expression. I think the author has deliberately tried to give an unbiased study of the problems of the Arab world, as he uses the thoughts and ideas of varied thinkers and writers, from anti-Western Muhammad Jalal Kishk to the romantic thinking Ba'thist founder Michel Aflaq.
Overall, I think there are very few bad points to The Arab Predicament. I think the study of the topic has created some profound points throughout the book, especially Ajami's explanation for the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism found in the last chapter and its relationship with the inaccessibility of political channels to the people of the Arab world. However, I do think there are a few minor negative points towards the book. First, although I enjoy Ajami's writing style, I am sometimes confused as to whether he is stating an opinion or simply explaining the mindset of another author or writer that he has cited in his text.
In regards to the material covered in the book, the Palestinian issue is mentioned only in passing, as if it is only another outside agent in the Arab world. In some sense this is true, since Ajami already points out the strength of the state in the Middle East (which Palestine does not have). Along with this, it would be helpful if Israel's situation had been more strongly explained and contrasted with the rest of the Arab states, as their presence is a major factor in the Middle East. Also, although the book seems to be written for the specialist reader, it would be helpful to give a little more explanation of most important events, such as the Six Day of 1967 or the October War of 1973. Even if the explanation is not put within one of the chapters, it would be helpful if his Note to the nonspecialist reader gave greater detail to some of the seminal events of the Middle East in the last half century (or at least from 1967).
The Arab Predicament provides great insight into some of the modern problems of the Arab world. Fouad Ajami goes into great depth exploring various issues, and his insight and ability to see the problems of many different viewpoints help him to create a great inquiry of the problems of the Middle East, almost all of which are applicable to today, nearly 10 years after he last revised his book.
Very Disappointing.......2001-10-13
While Ajami's analysis is engaging and literate, the author's bias shows throughout the book. Ajami refuses to call the terrorist group Hizbullah by its name, instead referring to it in translation as the "Party of God," and thereby hoping to deflect the reader's attention away from the true nature of this organization. He also translates jihad as "struggle," again in a revisionist attempt to bury the violence that certain sects of Islam have engendered in the name of holy war. He refuses to call the Yom Kippur War by its accepted name. Worst of all, in all of his references to the terrorsit mastermind Dr. George Habash, Ajami never once informs a reader that he is writing about a man who bombed school buses filled with children. This kind of selective ignorance has plagued many Arab accounts of the Middle East for years. Unfortunately, Ajami's work is no exception.
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The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967
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River Life : The Natural and Cultural History of a Northern River
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River Life takes you on a guided exploration of the Manitowish River, a small river in northern Wisconsin. Packed with information, River Life examines current ecological studies, probes fur trader journals and archaeological surveys, and explores the author's personal observations to vividly describe the life of a northern river.
River Life will help you to deeply appreciate, understand, and love rivers.
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A fascinating exploration of Wisconsin's Manitowish River.......2001-04-15
In River Life: The Natural And Cultural History Of A Northern River, naturalist and ecologist John Bates takes the reader on a fascinating and informative exploration of Wisconsin's Manitowish River. Packed with historical and environmental information, River Life carefully examines current ecological studies, draws upon fur trader journals and archaeological surveys, and is replete with Bate's own personal observations to vividly describe the "life" of this small northern Wisconsin river. River Life is enthusiastically recommended for students of natural history and river-based ecological systems, and would serve as an ideal template for similar historical and environmental accounts of other small to medium sized rivers throughout the United States.
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