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Antipode (n):

  1. the opposite side of the world
  2. a person from the far side of the Earth
  3. diametrically opposite or contrary

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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.


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