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Mekong Journals: 27

Chrestomather Jan 31, 2012 0 Comments

    January 10, 2003   Arrived in Stung Treng this afternoon.     We left the village where we’d stayed at 7 a.m. The night was a horror: there…

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Mekong Journals: 26

Chrestomather Jan 29, 2012 0 Comments

      Do you ever wonder, I asked Isabel, what the world looks like to Orcaella? Yes, she said, sometimes. Why for example did the dolphin that was caught…

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Mekong Journals: 25

Chrestomather Jan 28, 2012 1 Comments

          Once we start moving there is no doubt at all that Isabel is in charge – completely in charge. She’s absolutely the captain of her…

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Mekong Journal: 24

Chrestomather Jan 25, 2012 0 Comments

  Most women field biologists, Isabel says, take it more or less for granted that they will not marry or have children or indeed, any kind of domestic life (although…

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Mekong Journals: 23

Chrestomather Jan 25, 2012 8 Comments

    In watching Isabel administer this survey, it occurs to me often that this procedure and everything it entails, is exactly the opposite of what it means to study…

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Mekong Journals: 22

Chrestomather Jan 23, 2012 0 Comments

      Yesterday I took three turns as Principal Observer. What it consists of is this: for the first half hour, the Observer is equipped with binoculars; either standing…

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Mekong Journals: 21

Chrestomather Jan 21, 2012 1 Comments

      Earlier in the day we stopped at another small place – just a single hut surrounded by breadfruit and cassava plants – and found a forty-ish man…

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Mekong Journals: 20

Chrestomather Jan 19, 2012 0 Comments

      I’m writing this as we slowly make our way through a series of rapids. The current seems very fast, and in place the water is turbulent, but…

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Mekong Journals: 19

Chrestomather Jan 18, 2012 0 Comments

    January 9, 2003   We’re setting out in two boats this morning. This is the beginning of the expedition properly speaking. Now we head straight up to the…

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Mekong Journals: 18

Chrestomather Jan 16, 2012 0 Comments

    Yesterday, in the boat, Isabel commented that among zoologists there are many who don’t take cetologists seriously: ‘how can you work on dolphins?’ She attributes this in large…

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