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How much would the $24 paid for Manhattan be worth in today's money?
Dear Cecil:
Since elementary school I have repeatedly heard the story of how Manhattan was bought from the Indians for a mere $24 worth of trinkets. Something about this has long troubled me. Assuming the value of the barter items was estimated at about the time of the famous transaction, shouldn't it be adjusted for all those years of inflation? Maybe Manhattan wasn't such a steal after all.
Cecil replies:
Sometimes this job is too easy. In 1626 Peter Minuit bought Manhattan island from the local Indians for a load of cloth, beads, hatchets, and other odds and ends then worth 60 Dutch guilders. According to my Encyclopedia Britannica, 60 guilders in 1626 would buy you 1-1/2 pounds of silver. Naturally we assume this is troy weight, 12 ounces to the pound. Silver lately has been selling for a little more than a $4 per troy ounce.
Ergo — sorry, but a man in my position needs to say ergo once in a while — Minuit got the core of the Big A for $72 in today's money. (Lest you think the price of beads has increased remarkably slowly in the last 350 years, you should know that the $24 calculation was made in the 19th century.)
There are some who would contend that $72 or even $24 for Manhattan was not such a hot bargain. These people are mostly Republicans. But let's do a few calculations. According to the New York Public Library, the assessed value of taxable real estate in Manhattan for 1990-91 was $47 billion. Assuming the land alone accounts for 25 percent of this, land values have appreciated from a half cent per acre in 1626 to $827,000 per acre today, an increase of roughly 17 billion percent. Not bad, you are surely thinking, even by the stringent standards of the GOP.
But wait. I have a letter here from Andrew Johnston of NYC inquiring whether maybe the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million for a quarter of the country) wasn't a better bargain. Now, the Louisiana Purchase was not the best land deal the U.S. ever got. It cost 3 cents per acre in 1803 (5 cents when you figure in the interest), whereas Alaska cost 2 cents per acre in 1867. Just the same, it offers an interesting comparison.
According to Peter Wolf (Land in America, 1981), the total value of all land in the U.S. in 1975 was $1.3 trillion. Assuming an average annual appreciation of 5 percent per year, the land was worth $2.7 trillion as of 1991. The Louisiana Purchase accounts for about 23 percent of the present area of the U.S., so figure it's worth $618 billion, or about $1,160 an acre.
Having performed prodigious feats of calculation, we find that since 1803 the heartland of America has appreciated at an average annual rate of 5.5 percent per year, whereas since 1626 Manhattan has appreciated at an average annual rate of ... 5.3 percent. Conclusion: that dimbulb Minuit may have paid too much! Given the shaky assumptions behind some of the numbers above, I don't know that I'd go looking for an Indian asking for a refund. But compared to other historic U.S. land scams, Manhattan may not have been the steal everyone thinks.
The purchase of Manhattan: Wuz we robbed?
Dear Cecil:
As a followup to your discussion of whether or not Peter Minuit got a bargain when he paid only $24 worth of trinkets for Manhattan, there is one added factor. I grew up in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York. Named after the Canarsie Indians, it is the farthest point from Manhattan in Brooklyn.
When I was in high school, a history class published a research project in which they convincingly proved that Peter Minuit had purchased Manhattan from the Canarsie Indians. Since they did not live on Manhattan Island, it is unlikely that they had any ownership claim in the first place.
While $24 in trinkets might sound cheap for all of Manhattan, it is no bargain when you have paid it to a tribe that was just passing through. Rather than giving Mr. Minuit the bargain of the century, the Canarsie Indians may have actually sold him the proverbial Brooklyn Bridge.
Cecil replies:
I didn't mention this because I figured Peter Minuit had suffered enough, but now that you bring it up, I may as well pile on. One popular history of Manhattan notes that the Canarsie Indians "dwelt on Long Island, merely trading on Manhattan, and their trickery [in selling what they didn't possess to the Dutch] made it necessary for the white man to buy part of the island over again from the tribes living near Washington Heights. Still more crafty were the Raritans of [Staten Island], for the records show that Staten Island was sold by these Indians no less than six times."
So OK, maybe Peter Minuit was no Donald Trump. (Then again, considering the current state of Mr. T.'s real estate empire, maybe he was.) But let's not be too quick to judge. The latest crop of New York historians has taken pains to point out that there is no evidence either the Dutch or the Indians believed they had robbed or been robbed by the other party to the deal.


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Giuseppe Zangara attempted to kill United States President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933. Zangara successfully assassinated Chicago mayor Anton Cermak during the same incident.
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"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!"
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"I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists."
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Friend Or Foe, the 2010 Empire Classic winner who has been sidelined since a fourth-place finish in the 2011 Whitney Handicap, returns to the races against the win machine Saginaw at Aqueduct in Sunday's $80,000 Fourstars Allstar for New York-breds.
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Out in the morning sun the small patch of dokudami that grows atop one of the compost heaps is now sending up those crisp white blossoms from its dusky elegance of green, reminding me with the precision of blossoms, taunting me with that beauty in the face of my lunkheaded, sweaty weedwhacking frenzy of Wednesday, in which for some feverish reason I whacked clear the classy patch of actually medicinal dokudami that was growing with soft lushness in the shadows beneath the weeping cherry, jinchoge and forsythia (and growing there harmlessly, it must be said, in my non-delirious, sunny Saturday state of mind)...
So there in the soft breeze they twinkle tortuously, those few ivory teasers, going inyerface... inyerface... humbling me as I should be humbled for what I have done, the beauty I have lost...
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Well, on Wednesday, as I recall from what you wrote, the evil empire was plaguing you (and all of us)...perhaps they got to the weedwhacker too. Is the dokudami an annual that will return with its beauty and healthful properties? The photo is lovely.
- Robert Brady said...
Yes, Annie, the dokudami will be back next year, likely all the stronger for my depredations... but years aren't as throwaway as they used to be...
- Eric Pyle said...
You're probably a better gardener than I am, but frankly I would get the dokudami now while it's still contained. And don't mess around with economic sanctions -- I'm talking violence.
That stuff may be medicinal (everybody says so but nobody wants to come to my garden and pick any) but it also spreads like crazy and takes over. It is the best plant I know for proving that Intelligent Design was enacted by someone with other than kind intentions. If you just whack off the tops, the roots just get stronger. And when you try to pull it up by the roots, it cleverly breaks off. And if you get down on your knees with a little trowel and dig up the roots, you will be able to cover about a square meter per week.
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Together for most of the '90s, the Danko Quartet's fifth set for SteepleChase, Stable Mates, gathers a selection of the type of tunes many developing jazz artists have used to cut their teeth on over the years. The Miles Davis connection is a strong one too, with "Solar" and "Seven Steps to Heaven" on tap, as well as classics from former Davis sidemen Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Victor Feldman, and Jimmy Heath.
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Earth Abides
Cover of the 1949 Random House first edition
Author | George R. Stewart |
Cover artist | H. Lawrence Hoffman[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction novel |
Publisher | Random House |
Publication date
1949 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 373 |
Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and its rebirth. The story was set in the United States in the 1940s in Berkeley, California and told by a character, Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead.
Earth Abides won the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was included in Locus Magazine's list of best All Time Science Fiction in 1987 and 1998[2] and was a nominee to be entered into the Prometheus Hall of Fame.[3] In November 1950, it was adapted for the CBS radio program Escape as a two-part drama starring John Dehner.
"Part I: World Without End"[edit]
While working on his graduate thesis in geography in the Sierra Nevada, Ish is bitten by a rattlesnake. As he heals from the bite, he gets sick with a disease that looks like measles and he moves in and out of consciousness. He recovers and makes his way back to civilization, only to discover that most people died from the same disease. He goes to his home in Berkeley. In the city near his home Ish meets few human survivors – a man drinking himself to death, a couple who seem to have lost their sanity, and a teenage girl who flees from him as someone dangerous. He comes across a dog (a beagle bitch), friendly and eager to join him. The dog, which he names Princess, swiftly adopts Ish as her new master and sticks by him for much of the book. He sets out on a cross-country tour, traveling all the way to New York City and back, scavenging for food and fuel as he goes. As he travels, he finds small pockets of survivors, but has doubts about humanity's ability to survive the loss of civilization.
He returns to his home in California after reading Ecclesiastes (and realizing he had been throwing his life away), to find a woman, Emma (Em), living nearby. They agree to consider themselves married and have children. They are gradually joined by other survivors. Over time the electricity fails and the comforts of civilization recede. As the children grow, Ish tries to instill basic academics by teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography, but he is largely unsuccessful due to a lack of interest by the others.
Many children are born in these years and among them is Joey, Ish's youngest and favorite son. Joey is very similar in nature to Ish, as he demonstrates innate intelligence and a curiosity about the world before the epidemic. This leads Ish to believe that Joey is the key to the future.
"Part II: The Year 22"[edit]
Twenty-two years later, the community flourishes. The younger generation adapts easily to the more traditional world. They come to have a better grasp of the natural world than the adults, and when running water fails, the younger generation comes to the rescue, knowing where flowing streams may be found. Ish turns his attention from ecology to his newly forming society. One thing that he notices is that the children are becoming very superstitious. One day Ish asks for his hammer, an antique miner's tool he found in the mountains, which he habitually carries around, and finds the children are afraid to touch it. It is a symbol for them of the old times. The long-dead "Americans" are now like gods—and Ish is too.
In year twenty-two, the older boys return from a cross country trip with a stranger Charlie, who exposes the tribe to typhoid fever. The disease kills many, including his beloved son Joey. Through his despair, Ish is forced to face the future with a different set of expectations and hopes. His ambition to restore civilization to its original state is replaced by a more modest, practical one to simply convey a few basic survival skills.
As years go by, the community begins to grow corn and make and play with bows and arrows. Ish presides at meetings, his hammer being a symbol of his status. He is given respect, but his ideas are ignored by the younger men.
"Part III: The Last American"[edit]
Ish spends most of his elderly life in a fog, unaware of the world. Superstition has set in; the tribe has reverted to a traditional lifestyle, hunting with dogs and bow and arrow. Occasionally the fog in his mind lifts. During one such time, he finds himself aware of his great-grandson Jack, who stands before him. Jack shows him that the bow and arrow have become more reliable than the gun, whose cartridges do not always work. Ish realizes that the former civilization is now completely gone. But he also wonders if the new world is that much worse off than the old world, and finds himself hoping that the new world will not rebuild civilization and its mistakes.
Isherwood Williams (Ish) is a graduate student at Berkeley, studying the geography of an area in the mountains, somewhere in California. He is sometimes referred to in the book as "The Last American." Ish becomes the leader of the community, aka "the tribe", he believes due to his intellect. His nickname, Ish, is an obvious reference to Ishi, the "last Wild Indian." Ish is also the word for "man" in Biblical Hebrew.
Emma (Em) is a woman who Isherwood meets in his hometown. The author may have been taking a chance with this character, who is, at least partially, African-American,[4] while Isherwood is white; when the book was written, interracial marriages were heavily discouraged in American society.[5] Isherwood does marry her, and race isn't important to the couple's relationship. Em becomes the community's mother, letting it grow as it will, but stepping in to help when no one else is filling the leadership role. She was the adult while others panicked, and Ish thought of her as the "Mother of Nations".[6]
Ezra meets Emma and Ish while traveling through Berkley, he was a former liquor salesman and immigrant from Yorkshire, England. They liked him, but feared the complications of a love triangle, so they encouraged him to leave. He returned with Molly and Jean, his wives.[7] Ish values Ezra as a good judge of people, saying "Ezra knew people, Ezra liked people."
George is a carpenter by trade. George is not intellectually intelligent but becomes a Jack-of-all-trades able to build, repair or maintain the limited infrastructure of the small community.
Evie is a "half grown girl" who Ezra found living "in squalor and solitude." She appears to have little mind left, if she ever had one, and everyone cares for her.[8] Evie grows into an attractive young woman but the tribe has a rule, that as the children grow no one will marry her—she wouldn't understand, and her mental condition could possibly be hereditary.
Joey is the youngest son of Ish and Em. Of all the children in the Tribe, he is the only one that truly understands the academic skills that Ish tries to teach — geometry, reading, geography. He dies during the typhoid fever outbreak.
Charlie is a stranger who arrives from Los Angeles after two of the "boys" (the second generation) make a scouting expedition in a refurbished Jeep to see what is left of America. Immediately upon his arrival Ish and Ezra become suspicious about Charlie and the type of person he might be. Their suspicions are confirmed a day later when Charlie sets his eye on Evie. He also reveals to Ezra after drinking heavily that he has had many of "Cupids" diseases. Ish confronts Charlie about Evie, Charlie is disrespectful and challenges Ish's authority as leader. It is revealed that Charlie carries a concealed pistol and his behavior reveals himself as someone who was probably a violent criminal before the epidemic. As a result, Ish, Em, Ezra and George debate what to do about Charlie for the safety of the community, exile or execution. Charlie is the carrier of the typhoid epidemic that infects the community.
Jack is Ish's great-grandson. Jack is confident, intelligent and a potential leader. Ish sees something of Joey in him. As Ish dies, he gives Jack his hammer. (The hammer became an important symbol for "the tribe" over Ish's lifetime.)
Major themes[edit]
Biological controls on population[edit]
On the title page Stewart immediately starts with the theme, quoting Ecclesiastes 1:4 — "Men go and come, but earth abides." For the first half of Earth Abides, George R. Stewart concentrates on a major theme for the book, that humans have no privileged place in nature and are not immune to nature's built-in population controls. The main character, an ecologist, states it plainly, "When anything gets too numerous it's likely to get hit by some plague".[9]
On the first page Stewart tells readers how contagion could bring the end very quickly for mankind:
- "If a killing type of virus strain should suddenly arise by mutation...it could, because of the rapid transportation in which we indulge nowadays, be carried to the far corners of the earth and cause the deaths of millions of people." W.M. Stanley, in Chemical and Engineering News, December 22, 1947.[10]
Within a few pages he makes it clear that basic biology applies to humans too:
- "Some zoologists have even suggested a biological law: that the number of individuals in a species never remains constant, but always rises and falls—the higher the animal and the slower its breeding-rate, the longer its period of fluctuation[...]As for man, there is littler reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one....Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens."[11]
Population size subjects world to artificial selection[edit]
Reviewer Noel Perrin has pointed out that George R. Stewart had written two books before this, in which the main character was not a person, but "a natural force." In Storm the main character is weather, and in Fire, a forest fire takes center stage.[12]
In the same way, Stewart centers the first half of Earth Abides on the forces of natural and artificial selection. Perrin said:
- The original goal, I suspect, was simply to imagine as accurately as possible what would happen to the land mass of North America if human activity abruptly ceased. First, Stewart swept the country more or less clean of humanity, using a plague as a broom...An immense series of changes now begins.[12]
In freeing the landscape from humans, half of the book is devoted to looking at how the world would change in their absence. Stewart chose to make his main human character an ecologist, and sends him on a cross-country tour, to see what the world is like without people. As animals and plants no longer have humans taking care of them or controlling them, they are free to breed uncontrolled and to prey upon one another. The main character sees that some have been under humans so long that they are helpless in the face of change, while others are still able to adapt and survive. Stewart shows that humans have routinely influenced the lives of almost every plant and animal around them.
Numbers allow human-diversity, shape customs[edit]
Another theme of the book is what happens to human skills as the population decreases. Reviewer Lionel Shriver points out this theme in an article about literature which features human extinction:
- But as Stewart tracks three post-plague generations, he vividly demonstrates that advanced civilisation depends on numbers. Reduce the race to the size of a small town and how many residents will remember how to make plastic? The last Americans plunder canned goods (with little respect for sell-by dates), and literacy atrophies; electrical and water systems break down. At length, the community reverts to its hunter-gatherer forebears.[13]
Loss of reading[edit]
Stewart uses the second half of his book to show that, if humans are reduced to low numbers, it will be difficult for them to continue civilization as we know it. Reading becomes a casualty.
- The society is so small that the death of one member—a little boy named Joey—seems likely to determine for many generations to come whether the emerging society will or won't be literate...As Ish thinks of it, each new baby is a candle lit against the dark.[12]
And like a candle, a child living without medical institutions and technology can easily be snuffed by the environment.
In the struggle to survive, natural selection culls humans whose culture isn't survival- oriented; if skills and customs don't work in the new situation, these die out, or those holding them do. Children adapt naturally to the new situation, and immediately useful customs and skills are more interesting to them than reading and writing. The information in libraries is useless within a generation.
Social customs[edit]
One custom that Stewart predicts could die out is racism. When there are fewer partners to choose from, mankind will not be able to afford to be too choosy in picking one's partner.
Another issue he brings up is how law and order will function, when the lawmakers, courts and enforcers are all gone. Even laws won't be immune to the pressure to survive. One of the characters in the book point out, "What laws?" when they have to determine the fate of an outsider. Stewart shows how people may come to worry about potential harm rather than justice when dealing with outsiders.
Biblical theme: replenishing the Earth[edit]
Having explored the depopulated Earth, Stewart shifts his thematic focus in part 2 and 3, from the biological theme of population crash to a biblical theme of populating the world.
A 1949 book review says that Earth Abides parallels two biblical stories that shows mankind spreading out and populating the world:
- ...the dual themes are as old as Genesis...Not a flood but a swift and deadly new disease wipes out all but a few of the human race. Ish (for "Isherwood") is the Noah of this "Great Disaster." As material civilization begins to crumble, Ish gradually devolves into a kind of Adam who, inevitably, finds his Eve, Em (For "Emma"), a level-headed lady with Negro blood, and nature takes its time-worn course. Em is hailed by Ish as "The Mother of Nations."[14]
Stewart, who specialized in meanings of names, chose names in Hebrew that have appropriate meanings for the biblical theme; this couple who restart the human tribe are symbolically man and mother. In Stewart's day, most Hebrew dictionaries stated that Ish means "man" (although a more accurate English equivalent is "participant"),[15] and Em means "mother".[16] Both terms figure prominently in the biblical story of Adam and Eve: Ish in Genesis 2:23, and Em in Genesis 3:20.
In addition to the Hebraic names in Earth Abides, the story also has a symbol in common with biblical tradition—the snake. Ish encounters a rattlesnake; before this event he is part of a larger civilization. After it bites him, his world changes, just as the snake changes Adam's world in the Genesis story. Adam loses paradise, and Ish finds civilization dead.
Aside from the biblical origin of Ish, there is another tale of the fall of civilization that George R. Stewart could have taken account of, the story of Ishi, the last of his tribe, who lived at Berkeley, where Stewart later taught. Ish is very similar to Ishi, and it also means "man", in the language of a man whose whole tribe was dead. Ishi's story parallels the Genesis and Earth Abides stories, telling of one who has to adapt to a changed world.[17]
Earth Abides fits into the "post-apocalyptic" subgenre of science fiction. It was published in 1949, four years after the end of World War II and in the earliest stages of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. While post-apocalyptic fiction is now quite common, Earth Abides distinctly predates many similar well-known novels including Alas, Babylon (1959), A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960), and The Last Ship[18] (1988). It is predated, however by The Last Man (1826), The Machine Stops (1909), The Scarlet Plague[19] (1912), and René Barjavel's Ashes, Ashes (Ravage, 1943), among others.
A common theme of post-apocalyptic works is, "What if the world we know no longer exists," and each of these books paints a different picture of the future. Earth Abides explores such issues as family structure, education, the meaning and purpose of civilization, and the basic nature of humankind — especially in regard to religion, superstition, and custom. As it was written in the beginning years of the cold war, it lacks some common post-apocalyptic conventions found in later novels: there are no warlords or biker gangs (as in Mad Max); there is no fear of atomic weapons or radiation, no mutants and no warring tribes[20] (as in A Canticle for Leibowitz). When the main character in Earth Abides travels through the country, he notices little sign of there having been violence or civil unrest during the plague period. Many areas seem to have been evacuated, and only in or near hospitals are there large numbers of corpses.
According to WorldCat.org, there have been 28 editions of Earth Abides published in English. The book has been in print in every decade from 1949 to 2008.
James Sallis, writing in 2003 in the Boston Globe:
This is a book, mind you, that I'd place not only among the greatest science fiction but among our very best novels. Each time I read it, I'm profoundly affected, affected in a way only the greatest art — Ulysses, Matisse or Beethoven symphonies, say — affects me. Epic in sweep, centering on the person of Isherwood Williams, Earth Abides proves a kind of antihistory, relating the story of humankind backwards, from ever-more-abstract civilization to stone-age primitivism.[21]
Astounding reviewer P. Schuyler Miller identified the novel as one of the first regarding "a young and little understood science, the science of ecology." Miller praised Stewart for "the intricacy of detail with which he has worked out his problem in ecology" and for writing "quietly, with very few peaks of melodrama as seem necessary in much popular fiction."[22]
It was mentioned in a serious overview of modern science fiction, Contemporary Science Fiction by August Derleth, in the January 1952 edition of College English. Derleth called it an "excellent example" of the "utopian theme" of "rebuilding after a holocaust leaving but few survivors."
It was described as a persuasive answer to the question, "What is man," in the October, 1973 edition of Current Anthropology. The article "Anthropology and Science Fiction" [23] examines the nature of Science Fiction and its relationship to understanding people. The magazine concluded of Earth Abides that it shows ..."man is man, be he civilized or tribal. Stewart shows us that a tribal hunting culture is just as valid and real to its members as civilization is to us."
In the 1959 review of On the Beach, the mechanism of worldwide death used by Earth Abides, "a mysterious plague, arisen from some obscure ecological imbalance", was seen as not up to date. To the reviewer, a rain of radioactive particles was more current.
The article "Population in Literature" by Lionel Shriver from the Population and Development Review, June 2003, found the reverse. "Most doomsday novels feature war or disease...with the fears of the bomb receding, and AIDS in ascendancy, plague novels have become more in vogue."
In the American Quarter article California's Literary Regionalism, Autumn 1955, George R. Stewart is seen as a "humanist in the old classical sense. His novels, Storm, Fire, East of the Giants, Earth Abides, demonstrate the complex interlocking of topography, climate, and human society; and their general tone is objective and optimistic."
References to other works[edit]
The book makes a reference to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson. Ish compares the situations within these books to what he is going through. He finds Robinson Crusoe less appealing, because "his religious preoccupations seemed boring and rather silly".[24] He looks at the ship in the Swiss Family Robinson as an "infinite grab-bag from which at any time they might take exactly what they wanted,"[25] which is similar to the situation of those living after the Great Disaster.
Stewart also mentions Ecclesiastes 1:4 in the title and theme: "Men go and come, but Earth abides".[26]
Legacy and homages[edit]
- An homage to the book is found in the episode "Emancipation" of the dystopian sci-fi series Earth: Final Conflict, where "Earth Abides" became the name of a political group.[27]
- Stephen King has stated that Earth Abides was an inspiration for his post-apocalyptic novel, The Stand.[28]
- Singer/songwriter Art Elliot released an EP titled Earth Abides in June 2011. The title track is loosely based on the novel.
- In the Naughty Dog video game The Last of Us, a series of notes are found detailing the struggle of a survivor named Ish, with some details mirroring the book.
- Composer Philip Aaberg wrote a piece of music, titled "Earth Abides", inspired by the novel. The piece was originally written as part of a sound track commissioned by the National Geographic Society for a documentary on the Earth. The track can be found on the Windham Hill CD "A Winter's Solstice III" (track 15).[29]
- Jimi Hendrix claimed that "Earth Abides" was his favorite book and his song "Third Stone from the Sun" is inspired by the novel.[30]
Earth Abides has been translated into:[31]
- Spanish as La Tierra Permanece.
- Italian as La Terra sull'abisso
- French as Le Pont sur l'abîme.
- French as La Terre demeure.
- German as Leben ohne Ende.
- Portuguese as Só A Terra Permanece.
- Russian as Земля без людей.
- ^ Graham Sleight. "Yesterday's Tomorrows: Arthur C. Clarke and George R. Stewart". Retrieved 2008-03-07.
- ^ Locus Magazine. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus All-Time Poll Nominees List". Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ Libertarian Futurist Society. "Prometheus Hall of Fame Nominees". Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ Keith Phipps. "The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1949)". Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- ^ D. D. Shade. "Lost Book Archives, Earth Abides by George R. Stewart". Archived from the original on 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 295–299.
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 142–145.
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 144.
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 125.
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 1.
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 8–9.
- ^ a b c Perrin, Noel (Spring 2003). "unlisted title". American Scholar. Gale Document Number: A101175935: Gale (72.2): 109. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
- ^ Shriver, Lionel (June 10, 2002). "Population doomsday". New Statesman. EBSCO Host Academic Search Premier. 131 (4591): 38. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
- ^ Bell, Eric T. (December 1949). "Books: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. Random House, Inc. New York" (PDF). Engineering and Science Monthly. Pasadena, California: California Institute of Technology. XIII (3): 3–4. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
- ^ David E. S. Stein (2008). "The Noun איש ('îš) in Biblical Hebrew: A Term of Affiliation" (PDF). Journal of Hebrew Scriptures. 8. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- ^ Thijs van Dorssen. "Mother, mom, -em, ima (translation glossary". Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ Dodds, Georges T. "George R. Stewart". Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- ^ Ken Sanes. "False utopias of simulation and technology". Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ Justin Mason. "Justin Mason's Weblog, July 27, 2004: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction". Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ Rob L. Bedford. "Official sffworld.com Book Review: Earth Abides by George Rippey Stewart (2006-06-06)". Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ Sallis, James."Earth Abides: Stewart's dark eulogy for humankind," Boston Globe, February 16. 2003.
- ^ "Book Reviews", Astounding, October 1950, pp.129-30
- ^ Stover, Leon. "Anthropology and Science Fiction." Current Anthropology 14:4(471-474).
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p. 90.
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 90–91.
- ^ Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. title page.
- ^ Earth Final Conflict, efc.com. "Emancipation (Episode 303)". Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ Dodds, Georges T. "George R. Stewart" (sidebar). Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- ^ Scott, Donald (2012). The Life and Truth of George R. Stewart: A Literary Biography of the Author. McFarland. p. 195. ISBN 0786490535.
- ^ McDermott, John; Kramer, Eddie; Cox, Billy (2009). Ultimate Hendrix. New York City: Backbeat Books. p. 26. ISBN 0-87930-938-5.
- ^ Jack Eden. "Earth Abides Covers". Retrieved 2010-12-25.
- Bedford, Robert H. (June 6, 2006). "Earth Abides by George Rippey Stewart". SFFWorld.com. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- Dodds, Georges T. (2000). "Earth Abides by George R. Stewart, The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel". SF Site. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- efc.com. "Emancipation (Episode 303)". Earth Final Conflict, Episode Guide. Tribune Interactive. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- LeBlanc, Lucy (June 26, 2006). "Cover Evolution". Autumn Leaves. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- Libertarian Futurist Society. "Prometheus Hall of Fame Nominees". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- Locus Magazine. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus All-Time Poll Nominees List". Locus Magazine. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- Sallis, James (February 16, 2003). "Earth Abides: Stewart's dark eulogy for humankind". The Boston Globe.
- Mason, Justin (July 27, 2004). "Post-Apocalyptic Fiction". Justin Mason's Weblog. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- Phipps, Keith (February 21, 2008). "The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1949)". AVclub.com. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- Sanes, Ken. "False utopias of simulation and technology". www.transparencynow.com. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- Shade, D. D. (June 11, 1998). "Earth Abides by George R. Stewart". Lost Books Archives. Archived from the original on 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- Stein, David E. S., Rabbi (August 5, 2006). "What Does It Mean to Be a "Man"? The Noun 'ish in Biblical Hebrew: A Reconsideration" (PDF). The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation. Jewish Publication Society. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
- Stewart, George R. (1969). Earth Abides. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links[edit]
- Boston Globe review by James Sallis
- Review by Rich Cross at Survivors: A World Away
- Review and Discussion on We Read Science Fiction #3 All-Time Best Science Fiction Novel
- A large version of the painting by Robert Abbett for the 1962 Ace Books cover.
- Two versions of the painting for the Ace Books cover and blurbs about the book
- Earth Abides book covers
- Art Elliot, Earth Abides EP


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Found among some of J.R.R. Tolkien's old papers and manuscripts was a peculiar document, written in a language that is recognizable as Quenya, the High Elven language spoken in Valinor and the Blessed Realm. Apparently, Tolkien had translated The Lord's Prayer and Hail Mary into Quenya. Here's Tolkien's rendering of the Lord's Prayer:
Átarema i ëa han ëa, na aire esselya, aranielya na tuluva, na care indómelya cemende tambe Erumande. Ámen anta síra ilaurëa massamma, ar ámen apsene úcaremmar sív' emme apsenet tien i úcarer emmen. Álame tulya úsahitenna mal áme etelehta ucullo. Násie.
The doxology that normally follows the Lord's Prayer is not present here. Tolkien's translation of the Ave Maria is as follows:
Aia María quanta Eruanno i Héru as elye, aistana elye imíca n´si, ar aistana i yáve mónalyo Yésus. Aire María Eruo ontaril á hyame r´men úcarindor s´ ar lúmesse ya firuvamme. Násie.
The text was found on an old piece of stationery from the time Tolkien was at Merton College, Oxford, hence it must date from some time prior to 1945, just before The Lord of the Rings saw publication. The prayers were written in a script roughly approximating ancient Anglo-Saxon, Tolkien apparently amusing himself by creating a document that had the look and feel of an ancient manuscript. Why he created this is unknown. It is unlikely that he used these to actually pray. While The Lord's Prayer has long had a tradition of being used as a representative text for displaying samples of another language, the fact that Tolkien made no effort to publish this forgotten manuscript makes it unlikely that that was his intent either. Perhaps he did it merely for his own amusement.
H.K. Fauskanger, "J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord's Prayer and Hail Mary in Quenya: Syntactical and Etymological Analysis." (from Ardalambion, http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ataremma.rtf)
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On the stability radius of a generalized state-space systemTools Byers, R. and Nichols, N. (1993) On the stability radius of a generalized state-space system. Linear Algebra and its Applications, 188-189. p. 113. ISSN 0024-3795 Full text not archived in this repository. To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/0024-3795(93)90466-2 Abstract/SummaryThe concept of "distance to instability" of a system matrix is generalized to system pencils which arise in descriptor (semistate) systems. Difficulties arise in the case of singular systems, because the pencil can be made unstable by an infinitesimal perturbation. It is necessary to measure the distance subject to restricted, or structured, perturbations. In this paper a suitable measure for the stability radius of a generalized state-space system is defined, and a computable expression for the distance to instability is derived for regular pencils of index less than or equal to one. For systems which are strongly controllable it is shown that this measure is related to the sensitivity of the poles of the system over all feedback matrices assigning the poles.
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Title: | [Letter] 1822 Jan. 27, Knoxville, T[ennessee] [to] John Overton, Nashville, T[ennessee] / P.M. Miller : a machine readable transcription of an image |
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Summary: | This is a letter from P.M. Miller to John Overton, dated January 27, 1822. Miller gives a list of several topics that he wants Overton to consider. He wonders if there is someone other than Andrew Jackson to run for governor of Tennessee. Miller intimates that Jackson may be groomed for President if elected governor. He mentions the penitentiary house and that another may be built if needed. Miller writes about the question of slavery's effect on the presidential election. He thinks there will be many candidates running for president. |
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