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No-Bark Dog
Published in Paperback by Modern Curriculum Press (1991)
Authors: Stan Williamson and Margaret Hillert
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No-bark dog
This book is one of the most simple yet most clever childrens books I've seen. Idea for teaching reading as there is such a pattern to the story.


Sappho's Immortal Daughters
Published in Hardcover by Harvard Univ Pr (1996)
Author: Margaret Williamson
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Most Comprehensive I've Read
Just fininshing up a history term paper here for my major, and I thought I'd drop off a good word for the best secondary source on Sappho's life and work that I've ever seen. Ms. Williamson leaves no rock unturned, no aspect of Sappho's work or life unaddressed, and manages to do it in an entertaining and comprehensive way without running into 500 pages! If you are interested in Sappho at all beyond the text of her extant poetry, this is the book to buy!


Memoirs of a Political Officer's Wife in Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan
Published in Paperback by Wisdom Publications (1987)
Author: Margaret D. Williamson
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Lost Kingdoms
I'm researching a trip to Bhutan this fall, and have found that memoirs like this are few and far between. This book describes a world that is far gone--especially Tibet, where all vestiges of the Buddhist culture have been stamped out by the Chinese, except for a few carefully preserved sites for tourists. The book is fascinating for its picture of a culture that was totally accessible to a rather low level British foreign service officer--the Dalai Lama, the Bhutanese Royal Family welcome these well-meaning British into their midst with great ceremony and real friendship. The book itself suffers from a lack of immediacy, which I attribute to the fact that it was written many years later and undoubtedly based almost solely on diaries. I wish there were descriptions of the journeys themselves--the author speaks of crossing 17,000 foot passes as if they were a walk in the park---didn't the pack animals stumble, wasn't she ever out of breath? I would love to have read a description of a small village casually passed--were the children healthy? the people hostile or curious? Having said that, the book presents an interesting picture of a relatively benevolent British Empire reaching out to an independent Tibet--and Bhutan--untouched by the West.

Worlds Apart
Under what circumstances should a bride on honeymoon learn to shoot a rifle? The answer? If she was marrying a Political Officer in 1933. In her book " Memoirs of a Political Officer's Wife in Tibet, Sikkim and and Bhutan" Margaret Williamson describes her two years spent travelling with her husband who was working on behalf of the British Government in this remote part of the world.

To say she descibes a world that is lost to us is an understatement. She describes Tibet when it was ruled over by the previous Dalai Lama who died in 1935. Long before the Chinese invaded. She talks of Sikkim a tiny state that was invaded by India as recently as the 1970s. It is only in Bhutan where life is still recognisable from the decsriptions in this book.

Her description of a long lost life style in this mostly barren part of the world together with her observations of colours, fabrics and the minutiae of life provides a colourful view of life at a political level in these countries. Her marraige lasted two short years, her husband was buried in Tibet where his grave was eventually washed away by floods. She remains convinced to the end that " if I were to be offered the chance of lilving that all too brief period over again, I would do so without a moment's hesitation - even if I knew at the same time what the final outcome would be"

A fascinating view of life in the Himalayas in the 1930s where women travellers were the exception. And a way of life that is apart from anything we shall ever experience .


Annals of My Glass House: Photographs
Published in Paperback by University of Washington Press (1997)
Authors: Violet Hamilton, Julia Margaret Cameron, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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Aunt Clara: The Paintings of Clara McDonald Williamson
Published in Hardcover by Amon Carter Museum (1966)
Authors: Donald Vogel and Margaret Vogel
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Biodiversity: Can We Balance Resource With Economic Growth?
Published in Paperback by National Science Teachers Association (15 February, 1997)
Authors: Irwin Slesnick, Margaret Edwards, and Brad Williamson
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Buckeyes: A Collection of Verse
Published in Paperback by Volunteer Pubns (1990)
Author: Margaret Gordon Williamson
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Carrying Capacity
Published in Paperback by National Science Teachers Association (1997)
Authors: Margaret Edwards, Brad Williamson, and Irwin Slesnick
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Colloquial language of the Commonwealth and Restoration
Published in Unknown Binding by Norwood Editions ()
Author: Margaret Williamson
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Deforestation
Published in Paperback by National Science Teachers Association (16 September, 1997)
Authors: Margaret Edwards, Brad Williamson, and Irwin Slesnick
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