Mary Catherine Bateson has been called “one of the most original and important thinkers of our time” (Deborah Tannen).
Here is a book that presents each of us—at any age—with an exhilarating challenge to think about and approach our later lives with the full force of imagination, curiosity, and enthusiasm.
Listening across generations, weaving together the shining strands of family narratives, pondering the questions of fidelity and connection, exploration and illness, vision and improvisation, Bateson creates a prism through whic
The story of social evolution may fairly be called the national story.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
At the end of the fourth century the Roman Empire still comprised the entire basin of the Mediterranean.