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I enjoyed Charles Bowden's account of the perils of being a young female factory worker in Mexico, safari guide Mark Ross' harrowing if sentimentally written account of his kidnapping in Uganda by Hutu rebels, and much of the front-of-the-book "Conversation" section.
Harrowing tales of starvation and endurance epitomize Antarctica's “heroic age,” when men equipped with little more than fortitude struggled against a landscape seemingly designed to thwart their intentions.
Discussing Harrison's harrowing encounters with uncomprehending doctors--such as the physician who broke Harrison's hymen in front of her mother--Hodo concludes that "there is not much help for a troubled young woman with a fearful secret if a medical system fails to be personal, complex, creative, [and] sophisticated."
In Max Beckmann's Still Life With Three Skulls (1945), the greenish skulls on the table look fresh--as indeed they were in that harrowing year--like not-quite-ripe fruit.
The most harrowing parts of this book tell of Lewis and the integrated teams of Freedom Riders who rode on buses through the South to test federal laws that forbade segregation in interstate transport.