In October 1915, Endurance had been sunk by the pack ice in the Weddell Sea, leaving Shackleton and his companions adrift on a precarious ice surface.
The region forms part of the Sahelian region of Ghana and is characterized by a precarious nature of surface water reserves.
Bellows's gifts for illustration and handling paint enabled him to follow Henri's advice with rare verve, as evidenced by paintings like the 1906 "Kids," whose lush surface and precarious composition captures the incipient chaos of children's sidewalk games with an immediacy that presages the photographs of Helen Levitt.
A repeat motif has evening bleed into night, and "That Woman", one of the best poems in the book, maps the uneasy and precarious relationship between polished surfaces and "dark undersides".
Yet beneath the smiles she also spoke of her deep fears that peace and stability in South Africa was more precarious than it appeared on the surface.
"For us, wearing pointe shoes which are inherently slippery anyway, any little lump or bump in the surface can make it precarious".
Maximal exposure to mortal eyes need not have been the prime purpose of their originators e.g., the tomb chambers of Egyptian pharaohs, intended to be sealed forever, had their inner surfaces covered with monumental hieroglyphs; the great Bīsitūn inscription of King Darius I of Persia is on a high rock surface and legible only after precarious rock-climbing or from airborne conveyances.
The surface water sources are generally precarious during the monsoon seasons, and during no monsoonal periods people have to largely depend on groundwater resources for their domestic, agricultural, and industrial activities.
Winter sports seem all the more precarious, performed on edges set against slippery surfaces.
Moreover, even if such places represent socioeconomic extremes, similar problems surface whenever large-scale migration fuses with the more precarious parts of the economy.
