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There are places that rest tangibly on the Earth's surface, and places that flourish only in the imagination, and places that site their existence within a moral geography, and a few places, not many, Bor Island among them, that manage

There are places that rest tangibly on the Earth's surface, and places that flourish only in the imagination, and places that site their existence within a moral geography, and a few places, not many, Bor Island among them, that manage to fuse all these settings together. In truth, Bor belongs with that long tradition of island Arcadias that have attracted Western thinkers since well before Thomas More in 1516 gave them the name they now have: Utopia. What makes Bor Island unique is that its informing theme is fire.
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  • East of the Wind and West of the Rain
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2014-11-30
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    • Digital object identifier: 10.1093/isle/isv001
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      1759-1090
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      1076-0962
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    • This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in ISLE-INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version & Pyne, Stephen J. (2015). East of the Wind and West of the Rain. ISLE-INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT, 22(1), 155-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv001 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv001

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