Australia's north pole has a magnetic charm, and like many others, you could become a permanent statistic — something the locals are proud to call a Darwinite.

I also acknowledge the many scores of individuals—fellow RANDites, professional colleagues, personal friends, acquaintances—who collectively formed the milieu in which both my career and I were embedded, shaped, influenced, and evolved.

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

The first part of this section outlines the major mountain ranges and massifs in the eastern Hengduan Mountains between Jingsha Jiang (River of Golden Sand) and Min Jiang of the Upper Yangtze River.