Asian Geographic Issue 04/2016 | страница 8

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An illustration of a comet sighting from “The Book of Miracles” (1552)

“For we are aliens and pilgrims before
you, as were all our fathers; our days on
earth are as a shadow”
(1 Chronicles 29:15)

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ell me about being alien – for in my birth country I was labelled an
‘immigrant’ by extremist groups, at university I was third-class in the
queue for EU jobs and in my current workplace I am nothing short of an
economic migrant.
Add to that, I am no longer a local of my ancestral country, my forefathers
having left a century ago. Nomads, pilgrims, sojourners, migrants
– there are so many names for those of us who go from one place to
another – but aren’t we all travellers here on Earth?
That is perhaps why my favourite story in this issue is ‘Comets as Arks’
(p.52). They are the mysterious travellers of our Solar System, who may
have been the first explorers of planet Earth, and the most fantastic of
voyagers in their orbital migration in the Oort Cloud.

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CORRECTIONS
In our previous issue No.118 (Issue 3/2016) we did not credit a
double-page illustration on pages 30 and
31, under the story “King
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Tamar, the Caucasian Queen”. The hand-drawn illustration was done
by Kathy Poh.

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We are all travellers here on Earth, as were our fathers. Look at the
nomadic tribes of Mongolia (p.8) or the Chinese labourers to British
Guiana and back (p.36). Even the earth does not stay still, as you will find
in our feature on Pangaea.
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