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Dine: A Tribute to the Navajo People
Take a journey into natural freedom and beauty in this tribute to one of America’s most vibrant nomadic tribes. Author/artist Zita Steele commemorates the Dine (Navajo) people of the Southwestern United States with a vivid collection of color images.
Four chapters honor the Native American tribe’s freedom, ingenuity, strength, and joy. The images create an experience of nomadic life without reservations or borders. The book provides insights into Dine culture and highlights the tribe’s vast ancestral roaming territory. Features include: 40+ original photographs, 25+ photo montages and special introduction by the author
Four chapters honor the Native American tribe’s freedom, ingenuity, strength, and joy. The images create an experience of nomadic life without reservations or borders. The book provides insights into Dine culture and highlights the tribe’s vast ancestral roaming territory. Features include: 40+ original photographs, 25+ photo montages and special introduction by the author
108 pages, Paperback
Published February 9, 2017
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About the author
Zita Steele
16 books11 followersZita Ballinger Fletcher is an award-winning author and military historian. She holds an MA in Military History with Distinction from the University of Birmingham (UK) Centre for War Studies and is a graduate of the Honors College at the University of South Florida. She has written over 10 books, including both fiction and nonfiction, and over 100 military history articles. She is fluent in German.
She has done research about war history across the US and internationally, visiting many key historic war-related sites including The Museum of Military History in Vienna, Austria; The Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg; The Munich Stadtmuseum, and many more places.
Zita was previously the first female editor of Military History Quarterly (MHQ) and Vietnam magazines. She served proudly as the official historian of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and has written in German as a guest historian for the German War Graves Commission, which she supports. As a defense reporter, she has provided news coverage of the Pentagon, U.S. Congress, the global defense industry, and all branches of the U.S. military for Defense News and Military Times, and is a Forbes contributor on drone warfare and unmanned systems.
Originally from Los Angeles, California, Zita was named after Empress Zita of Austria, the wife of the last Habsburg emperor, Karl I of Austria. Both Karl and his wife Zita have been inspirations to her. Zita’s earliest goal was to be an author and she always loved soldiers and heroes. You can read more about her enthusiasm for military history in her Author Interview with the Military Writers Society of America.
Some of her past books were published under the pen name “Zita Steele” she created a long time ago. The pen name “Steele” was a wordplay on steel metal; her element according to the Chinese zodiac and Five Elements system is Metal.
Apart from her military history research and writing, she enjoys traveling, music, and a wide variety of outdoor/physical activities.
She has done research about war history across the US and internationally, visiting many key historic war-related sites including The Museum of Military History in Vienna, Austria; The Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg; The Munich Stadtmuseum, and many more places.
Zita was previously the first female editor of Military History Quarterly (MHQ) and Vietnam magazines. She served proudly as the official historian of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and has written in German as a guest historian for the German War Graves Commission, which she supports. As a defense reporter, she has provided news coverage of the Pentagon, U.S. Congress, the global defense industry, and all branches of the U.S. military for Defense News and Military Times, and is a Forbes contributor on drone warfare and unmanned systems.
Originally from Los Angeles, California, Zita was named after Empress Zita of Austria, the wife of the last Habsburg emperor, Karl I of Austria. Both Karl and his wife Zita have been inspirations to her. Zita’s earliest goal was to be an author and she always loved soldiers and heroes. You can read more about her enthusiasm for military history in her Author Interview with the Military Writers Society of America.
Some of her past books were published under the pen name “Zita Steele” she created a long time ago. The pen name “Steele” was a wordplay on steel metal; her element according to the Chinese zodiac and Five Elements system is Metal.
Apart from her military history research and writing, she enjoys traveling, music, and a wide variety of outdoor/physical activities.
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March 26, 2017
I received a copy of this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.
Aw, man. I feel bad about the review I'm about to write. Not because I got the book for free, I have no problem writing an honest negative review for something I got gratis. The problem is that the author obviously cares about the subject matter and wants other people to care as well, so it feels mean to have to knock the result.
Aw, maaaaaan.
This is mostly a collection of old photographs of Navajo people retouched to look like they were taken in situ in the southwest before us white folks came along and disrupted everything, along with some original photographs and a little bit of cultural information about the Navajo thrown in as well. The problem, and it's unfortunately a huge problem, is that the retouched images look terrible. Remember the Ecce Homo painting of Jesus that was ruined in an attempt to restore it? A lot of the pictures look like that. In the less severe cases it's merely that the colors are dramatically off, the backgrounds look like something out of the 1960s Star Trek television show, the foregrounds and backgrounds are clearly mismatched, and poor image quality has everything looking pixelated and grainy. The unaltered photographs included are generic, and seem more like a bunch of snapshots taken on a cellphone camera than carefully chosen selections intended to give a feel for Navajo sensibilities. It also doesn't help at all that every page looks like a Powerpoint slide, with strange image spacing, weird fonts, poorly contrasting font colors, and clashing page background colors.
This book really seems like a labor of love, but the end result was just... horrendous.
...
Maaaaaaaaaaaan. ._.
Aw, man. I feel bad about the review I'm about to write. Not because I got the book for free, I have no problem writing an honest negative review for something I got gratis. The problem is that the author obviously cares about the subject matter and wants other people to care as well, so it feels mean to have to knock the result.
Aw, maaaaaan.
This is mostly a collection of old photographs of Navajo people retouched to look like they were taken in situ in the southwest before us white folks came along and disrupted everything, along with some original photographs and a little bit of cultural information about the Navajo thrown in as well. The problem, and it's unfortunately a huge problem, is that the retouched images look terrible. Remember the Ecce Homo painting of Jesus that was ruined in an attempt to restore it? A lot of the pictures look like that. In the less severe cases it's merely that the colors are dramatically off, the backgrounds look like something out of the 1960s Star Trek television show, the foregrounds and backgrounds are clearly mismatched, and poor image quality has everything looking pixelated and grainy. The unaltered photographs included are generic, and seem more like a bunch of snapshots taken on a cellphone camera than carefully chosen selections intended to give a feel for Navajo sensibilities. It also doesn't help at all that every page looks like a Powerpoint slide, with strange image spacing, weird fonts, poorly contrasting font colors, and clashing page background colors.
This book really seems like a labor of love, but the end result was just... horrendous.
...
Maaaaaaaaaaaan. ._.
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