From Long Island to the Great Plains
| Autor: | Carlyle S. Smith |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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| Zdroj: | Plains Anthropologist. 51:527-536 |
| ISSN: | 2052-546X 0032-0447 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/pan.2006.038 |
| Popis: | century sense of the term. I began collecting old guns and coins at the age of eight (still do), read extensively in history, loved languages, and geography. I used to devour the National Geographic. I always headed for the travel and history sections of the local library, which was good. My interest in mathematics was less than zero, if that is possible, and my aptitude the same. In fact, when I was in school, I never could understand how anybody could get interested in it. I took everything that was required through intermediate algebra, even though I had to take that twice. But in the meantime I breezed through four years of Latin, three of French, and two years of German before I even got to college. I have al ways loved languages. At Columbia I continued with French and German and picked up Spanish and some Norwegian along the way on Thor Heyerdahl's Easter Island expedition much later. |
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