milly_toons

t1_jdmiar5 wrote

Reply to Simple Questions: March 25, 2023 by

I have a question about the latest UK edition of Through a Window by Jane Goodall. For context, I own both the latest UK edition (1999, published by Orion/Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and US edition (2010, published by Houghton Mifflin) of its prequel In the Shadow of Man and noticed that they contain completely different introductions/forewards by different people, including Dr Goodall herself (UK: Stephen Jay Gould and David Hamburg, but US: Richard Wrangham).

Now I see that the US edition (2010, published by Houghton Mifflin) of Through a Window contains a new preface and afterward by Dr Goodall herself, and nothing by others. I am unable to find an online preview of the latest UK edition (2020, published by Orion/Weidenfeld & Nicolson) of Through the Window. Can anyone who owns this specific 2020 UK edition please let me know who the introduction/foreword/afterword sections are written by and when they are dated? (This UK edition is not available for me to browse at any library/bookstore near me in the US.) Thank you!

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OP t1_ix5jk7f wrote

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Thanks, makes sense! I remember they thought they had landed on the same coast but in a different area far away from their original location at Port Grauben, but I wasn't sure if we were meant to believe that Axel's apparent recognition of certain landmarks was correct. I guess we're supposed to consider his perspective unreliable when he says he recognizes certain things.

I read the Baldick translation but will definitely check out either the Wynne or Butcher translation when I re-read this novel in the future.

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OP t1_ix5fa2x wrote

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That would make sense, but it was weird that Axel didn't make a remark saying "oh so we did cross the sea after all!" at the end. He now understands that they were on the right path all along, which involved crossing the sea (which they actually did but thought they didn't).

But then it doesn't make sense that Axel could recognize some of the landforms once they landed on the beach after the storm. He thought he recognized the place where the Hansbach flowed in, and similar terrain / other areas that he had already seen before when they were at Port Grauben on the supposedly same side of the sea. Was Axel just imagining things and wrongly recognizing unseen landforms as ones he had seen before on the other coast?

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