Antipode (n):
- the opposite side of the world
- a person from the far side of the Earth
- diametrically opposite or contrary
Read excerpts.
Antipode is a story of moving between cultures, of coming face to face with expectations that were developed while living a comfortable life
in America, but are exposed when living in a tent in the rainforest.
Antipode is a story of nature, of field work and sweat, of being dependent on the vagaries of weather, and on the cycles of the
moon and the tides.
Antipode is a story of being a white woman in a land where white women are rare or nonexistent, of the curiosity this provokes, and the
friends made.
Antipode is a story of low-tech science, of observation and experiment that is contingent on little beyond the animals themselves, and the
observer.
Antipode is a story of conservation, of rainforests still standing, and of those that have fallen.
