An autobiography that shows how much can be achieved by the man/women in the street even against the most powerful when their cause is just and they passionately believe in it. Emile Carles, brought up in a remote mountain valley where life was subsistence farming had to fight hard to become a teacher. When she was In her 70's she took on the bureaucracy in Paris when they proposed building a motorway which would have destroyed the community, the way of life and the environment. However this is more than the fight it is the portrayal of a way of life [1900 - 1970's] which has gone. The valley was saved.
(Lynda Johnson - bwl 96 Spring 2020 ) |
