Dr. Temperance Brenna, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, is in the middle of identifying the bones of a nun, dead for over a century, who is now a candidate for sainthood, when she is pulled away to investigate a bigger mystery involving the twisted corpses found at a burning chalet.
A biography of American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, covering her childhood, school and college years, time in Samoa, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali, and role as a mentor in her field, with maps, color images, timelines, and a glossary.
Mischa Berlinski moves to northern Thailand with his girlfriend and stumbles upon the story of his career when he learns of an American anthropologist who has been found dead in a Thai prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder, and as he is drawn into the young woman's life, Mischa finds himself uncovering deadly family secrets and a new way of looking at the world.
Examines public and private aspects of the life of anthropologist Margaret Mead, discussing her childhood in Pennsylvania, her education, and her work in the South Pacific.
Having traveled to a sixteenth century border clan in England through a tunnel created by a twenty-first century company, Andrea must decide in which era she will live.
