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Colin TurnbullColin Macmillan Turnbull (1924-1994) was a Scottish-born anthropologist who gained fame with his book The Forest People (1962), a detailed study of the Mbuti[?] Pygmies[?]. In 1972, he wrote his most controversial book, The Mountain People, which portrayed Uganda's hunger-plagued Ik tribe.Turnbull became an American citizen and lived in Virginia with his partner of 30 years. After his partner's death, Turnbull retreated to a Buddhist monastery where he lived out his remaining years. father, and I was forced to agree to it.'
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me confess to what I have never done, he adopts plans I dare not
anything! I resolved to write to you, as I had no other friend.'
ground for his suspicion, so as not to disgrace his judgment.'
'Do you really mean, Emmeline,' he tremblingly inquired, 'that you--
time as this?'
He was silent for a minute or more. 'You must not go with me,' he
and it isn't likely I would begin now, when I pray every day to die.html">die.html">die
right in general, I know, but it is such an exceptional instance,
no harm, injuring no one, helping many people, and expecting
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this request to you is--how my life is wrapped up in it, you could
'Emmy, you are the Duchess of Hamptonshire, the Duke of
'Alwyn, Alwyn, do you say it indeed to me?'
'Yes, I do, dear, tender heart! I do most sadly say it. You must
Though I die, though you die, we must not fly together. It is
among the trees.
Three days after this meeting and farewell, Alwyn, his soft,
ordinary wear and tear in the world could scarcely have produced,
Western Glory. When the land had faded behind him he mechanically
attempt, backed up by the strong moral staying power that had
in her reckless trustfulness, had exposed him, was rewarded by a
whereon he gazed day after day too often seemed to be articulating
proportions the feverish regrets which would occasionally arise and
he not hearkened to the whispers of conscience. He fixed his
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