Captive Cosmopolitans John L. Koprowski Just before a hurricane destroyed

Just before a hurricane destroyed her family home in 1938

demand avoidant individuals across a range of settings and services

building on the alchemical tradition and the Western path of initiation developed by Rudolf Steiner

while also illuminating the organization of the Smithsonian museums in the Fifties

their cultural work informed the sixties and their biographies offer a lucid and complex picture of that proverbial "long decade

Captive Cosmopolitans John L. Koprowski Just before a hurricane destroyedFrom the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterways of Bahia, Black mariners were integral to every space of the commercial South Atlantic. Navigating this kaleidoscopic world required a remarkable cosmopolitanism the chameleonlike ability to adapt to new surroundings by developing sophisticated medicinal, linguistic, and navigational knowledge. Mary E. Hicks shows how Portuguese slaving ship captains