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  2. Escape to Last Man Peak - Wikipedia

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    Escape to Last Man Peak is a popular Jamaican novel written by Jamaican author Jean D'Costa.First published in 1975, it chronicles the adventure of ten orphans who embark on a dangerous journey across Jamaica in search of a new home, after a deadly pneumonia epidemic kills the caretakers of their orphanage and propels the country into a state of anarchy and desolation.

  3. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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    Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is a 2017 nonfiction book by American journalist Jessica Bruder about the phenomenon of older Americans who, following the Great Recession from 2007 to 2009, adopted transient lifestyles traveling around the United States in search of seasonal work (vandwelling).

  4. Two Old Women - Wikipedia

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    Because of a lack of food and an upcoming strict winter, one of these Gwich'in nomad groups decides to leave behind two old women in the snow-covered wilderness. Left behind and dumbfounded in fright, 75-year-old Sa' and 80-year-old Ch'idzigyaak remain seated in the snow after the leader announced the decision to the tribe.

  5. An Anthropologist on Mars - Wikipedia

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    The title of this essay comes from a phrase Grandin uses to describe how she often feels in social interactions. The 1999 film At First Sight is based on the fourth essay, "To See and Not to See". The Brian Friel play Molly Sweeney was also inspired by this essay. The 2011 film The Music Never Stopped is based on the second essay, "The Last ...

  6. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Sun burns out and the last of humanity is sheltered in an arcology from the hostile environment and the creatures adapted for it Novel 1913 Disease Goslings: A World of Women [5] J. D. Beresford: A global plague has decimated England's male population and the once-predictable Gosling family is now free to fulfill its long-frustrated desires ...

  7. Nomadland - Wikipedia

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    Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao.Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad.

  8. Nomad (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    In the magazine's last issue, Nomad/New York, a special double issue (10/11, Autumn 1962), Factor wrote one of the first essays on what would become known as pop art, though he did not use the term. The essay, "Four Artists," focused on Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg. At the time, Factor was a collector of the ...

  9. The Last American (novel) - Wikipedia

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    First published in 1889, the novel is the fictional journal of a Persian explorer named Khan-Li, who sails across the Atlantic in 2951 and rediscovers America. Beginning around 1960, the world was devastated by drastic climatic changes, with North America becoming virtually uninhabitable; these had later partially reversed themselves, though the Persian explorers find the East Coast at the ...