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Drowning in All Seven Continents

Author : Rufus McGaugh
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Drowning in All Seven Continents written by Rufus McGaugh and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third volume of travel tales, Rufus McGaugh, who, 2017, completed his 49-year quest to visit every country in the world, takes you back to some countries he revisited, takes you with him on his trek to six dangerous wanna-be countries in the Russian Caucasus (North Ossetia, Abkhazia, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, and Dagestan), and tells you, in the title chapter, how he sometimes came close but managed to avoid drowning all over the world. In addition, he regales the reader with more anecdotes from his life as a middle-school teacher and offers further insights into the life and psyche of a Vietnam vet (particularly in a section entitled "How to Come Home from a War"). Anyone who has read and enjoyed Rufus' first two volumes (LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE, WITH ATTITUDE and JOYRIDING WITH A TERRORIST IN YEMEN) will certainly enjoy this book. And readers who haven't read those two volumes will be scurrying to pick them up after they finish DROWNING IN ALL SEVEN CONTINENTS.

The Drowned Cities

Author : Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316202614
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Drowned Cities written by Paolo Bacigalupi and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped their bare chests. Ugly brands scored their faces. She knew why these soldier boys had come. She knew what they sought, and she knew, too, that if they found it, her best friend would surely die. In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man--a bioengineered war beast named Tool--who is being hunted by a vengeful band of soldiers, their fragile existence quickly collapses. One is taken prisoner by merciless soldier boys, and the other is faced with an impossible decision: Risk everything to save a friend, or flee to a place where freedom might finally be possible. This thrilling companion to Paolo Bacigalupi's highly acclaimed Ship Breaker is a haunting and powerful story of loyalty, survival, and heart-pounding adventure.

The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon

Author : S. S. Taylor
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 : 1938073673
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon written by S. S. Taylor and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computers have failed, electricity is extinct, and the race to discover new lands is underway! Brilliant explorer Alexander West has just died under mysterious circumstances, but not before smuggling half of a strange map to his intrepid children—Kit the brain, M.K. the tinkerer, and Zander the brave. Why are so many government agents trying to steal the half-map? (And where is the other half?) It’s up to Alexander’s children—the Expeditioners—to get to the bottom of these questions, and fast.

Celebrating Nature on the Seven Continents: A Photographic Journey Around the World

Author : Sunil Singh
Publisher : Sunil Singh
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Nature on the Seven Continents: A Photographic Journey Around the World written by Sunil Singh and published by Sunil Singh. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Celebrating Nature on the Seven Continents: A Photographic Journey Around the World" takes readers on a stunning journey to experience the beauty of nature and wildlife. Written by Sunil and Vani, a nature and wildlife enthusiast couple, the book features hundreds of breathtaking images and personal stories from their travels through rainforests, savannahs, deserts, the Arctic tundra, and the pristine wilderness of Antarctica. Sunil, who as a teenager viewed the world through the lens of his camera with his first prized possession - Zenit TTL, a 35mm film SLR camera made in the USSR, shares his passion for wildlife and photography with readers. Vani, inspired by Jane Goodall's work, meticulously researched and planned this journey to fragile habitats to better understand the wild. Their journey begins in Alaska and takes them across both the Arctic and Antarctic circles before ending in the southernmost national park of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina. Along the way, Sunil and Vani carry two camera backpacks and a few sets of clothes, savoring the unexpected moments and experiencing a deep humility in the face of nature's splendor. In addition to providing breathtaking images and personal stories, the book also offers practical information on researching destinations, packing for a variety of climates and destinations, photography gear and tips, and the logistics of planning a journey around the world. It is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the rich and colorful biodiversity of our planet.

The Assassin King

Author : Elizabeth Haydon
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429920556
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Assassin King written by Elizabeth Haydon and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assassin King opens at winter's end with the arrival by sea of a mysterious hunter, a man of ancient race and purpose, who endlessly chants the names of the pantheon of demons that are his intended victims, as well as one other: Ysk, the original name of the Brother, now known as Achmed, the Assassin King of Ylorc. At the same moment of this portentous arrival, two gatherings of great import are taking place. The first is a convocation of dragons, who gather in a primeval forest glade--the site of the horrific ending of Llauron, one of the last of their kind. They mourn not only his irrevocable death, but the loss of the lore and control over the Earth itself that it represents. The ancient wyrms are terrified for what will come as a result of this loss. The second gathering is a council of war held in the depths of the keep of Haguefort: Ashe and Rhapsody, rulers of the alliance that protects the Middle Continent; Gwydion, the new Duke of Navarne; Anborn, the Lord Marshall; Achmed, the King of Ylorc, and Grunthor, his Sergeant-Major. Each brings news that form the pieces of a great puzzle. And as each piece is added it becomes quite clear: War is coming, the likes of which the world has never known. Cataclysm, both large and small, await in this sixth volume of the USA Today bestselling fantasy series, The Symphony of Ages. A twisting, fast-moving tale, The Assassin King promises endless surprises--most of which lead to pain. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ocean of Sound

Author : David Toop
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 1788161041
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Ocean of Sound written by David Toop and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an exhilarating, path-breaking account of ambient sound. 'A meditation on the development of modern music, there's no single term that is adequate to describe what Toop has accomplished here ... mixing interviews, criticism, history, and memory, Toop moves seamlessly between sounds, styles, genres, and eras' Pitchfork's '60 Favourite Music Books'

The 8th Continent

Author : Matt London
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1595147543
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The 8th Continent written by Matt London and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoping to transform a giant floating garbage patch into a habitable eighth continent where people can escape an oppressive bureaucracy, Evie and Rick must race against time when a plastic-obsessed villainess tries to claim the continent to expand her power.

Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

Author : Meghan Gilbert-Hickey
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496833856
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction written by Meghan Gilbert-Hickey and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideology and postracialism on YASF, a genre that is often seen as progressive in its representation of adolescent protagonists. Simply put, colorblindness silences those who believe—and whose experiences demonstrate—that race and racism do continue to matter. In examining how some YASF texts normalize many of our social structures and hierarchies, this collection examines how race and racism are represented in the genre and considers how hierarchies of race are reinscribed in some texts and transgressed in others. Contributors point toward the potential of YASF to address and interrogate racial inequities in the contemporary West and beyond. They critique texts that fall short of this possibility, and they articulate ways in which readers and critics alike might nonetheless locate diversity within narratives. This is a collection troubled by the lingering emphasis on colorblindness in YASF, but it is also the work of scholars who love the genre and celebrate its progress toward inclusivity, and who further see in it an enduring future for intersectional identity.

Our Day

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Our Day written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes

Author : Geoff Bailey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030373673
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes written by Geoff Bailey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume provides for the first time a comprehensive description and scientific evaluation of underwater archaeological finds referring to human occupation of the continental shelf around the coastlines of Europe and the Mediterranean when sea levels were lower than present. These are the largest body of underwater finds worldwide, amounting to over 2500 find spots, ranging from individual stone tools to underwater villages with unique conditions of preservation. The material reviewed here ranges in date from the Lower Palaeolithic period to the Bronze Age and covers 20 countries bordering all the major marine basins from the Atlantic coasts of Ireland and Norway to the Black Sea, and from the western Baltic to the eastern Mediterranean. The finds from each country are presented in their archaeological context, with information on the history of discovery, conditions of preservation and visibility, their relationship to regional changes in sea-level and coastal geomorphology, and the institutional arrangements for their investigation and protection. Editorial introductions summarise the findings from each of the major marine basins. There is also a final section with extensive discussion of the historical background and the legal and regulatory frameworks that inform the management of the underwater cultural heritage and collaboration between offshore industries, archaeologists and government agencies. The volume is based on the work of COST Action TD0902 SPLASHCOS, a multi-disciplinary and multi-national research network supported by the EU-funded COST organisation (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). The primary readership is research and professional archaeologists, marine and Quaternary scientists, cultural-heritage managers, commercial and governmental organisations, policy makers, and all those with an interest in the sea floor of the continental shelf and the human impact of changes in climate, sea-level and coastal geomorphology.

Paradise Lust

Author : Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802195636
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lust written by Brook Wilensky-Lanford and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “certainly weird . . . strangely wonderful . . . [and] often irresistible” search to find the real Garden of Eden (The New York Times Book Review). Where, precisely, was God’s Paradise? St. Augustine had a theory. So did medieval monks, John Calvin and Christopher Columbus. But when Darwin’s theory of evolution changed our understanding of human origins, shouldn’t the desire to put a literal Eden on the map have faded away? Not so fast. This “gloriously researched, pluckily written historical and anecdotal assay of humankind’s age-old quixotic quest for the exact location of the Biblical garden” (Elle) explores an obsession that has consumed scientists and theologians alike for centuries. To this day, the search continues, taken up by amateur explorers, clergymen, scholars, engineers and educators—romantic seekers all who started with the same simple-sounding Bible verses, only to end up at a different spot on the globe: Sri Lanka, the Seychelles, the North Pole, Mesopotamia, China, Iraq—and Ohio. Inspired by an Eden seeker in her own family, “Wilensky-Lanford approaches her subjects with respect, enthusiasm and conscientious research” (San Francisco Chronicle) as she traverses a century-spanning history provoking surprising insights into where we came from, what we did wrong, and where we go from here. And it all makes for “a lively journey” (Kirkus Reviews).

Our Day

Author : Joseph Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Our Day written by Joseph Cook and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drowned Worlds

Author : Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher : Solaris
ISBN 13 : 1849979308
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Drowned Worlds written by Charlie Jane Anders and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We stand on the brink of one of the greatest ecological disasters of our time – the world is warming and seas are rising, and yet water is life; it brings change. Where one thing is wiped away, another rises. Drowned Worlds looks at the future we might have if the oceans rise – good or bad. Here you’ll find stories of action, adventure, romance and, yes, warning and apocalypse. Stories inspired by Ballard’s The Drowned World, Sterling’s Islands in the Net, and Ryman’s The Child Garden; stories that allow that things may get worse, but remembers that such times also bring out the best in us all. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan has put together sixteen unique tales of deluged worlds and those who fight to survive and strive to live. Featuring fiction by Paul McAuley, Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nina Allan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Christopher Rowe, Nalo Hopkinson, Sean Williams, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, Rachel Swirsky, James Morrow, Charlie Jane Anders, Sam J. Miller and Catherynne M. Valente.

Development Drowned and Reborn

Author : Clyde Adrian Woods
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820350923
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Development Drowned and Reborn written by Clyde Adrian Woods and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance. Written in dialogue with social movements, this book offers tools for comprehending the racist dynamics of U.S. culture and economy. Following his landmark study, Development Arrested, Woods turns to organic intellectuals, Blues musicians, and poor and working people to instruct readers in this future-oriented history of struggle. Through this unique optic, Woods delineates a history, methodology, and epistemology to grasp alternative visions of development. Woods contributes to debates about the history and geography of neoliberalism. The book suggests that the prevailing focus on neoliberalism at national and global scales has led to a neglect of the regional scale. Specifically, it observes that theories of neoliberalism have tended to overlook New Orleans as an epicenter where racial, class, gender, and regional hierarchies have persisted for centuries. Through this Blues geography, Woods excavates the struggle for a new society.

On the Ridge Between Life and Death

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416548769
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book On the Ridge Between Life and Death written by David Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great danger? In On the Ridge Between Life and Death, David Roberts confronts these questions head-on as he recounts the exhilarating highs and desperate lows of his climbing career. By the time he was twenty-two, Roberts had already been involved in three fatal mountain climbing accidents and had escaped death himself by the sheerest of luck. And yet, as he acknowledges, few things have brought him more joy than climbing. In a famous essay on the subject written more than twenty years ago, Roberts judged climbing to be "worth the risk." He continues to climb to this day, and several of his challenging routes in Alaska have never been climbed since. But in reassessing the emotional costs to himself and to loved ones, he reaches a different conclusion, one that is sure to cause controversy not only in climbing circles, but among adventurers of all kinds. Candid and unflinching, On the Ridge Between Life and Death is a compelling examination of the risks we take in order to feel more alive.

Thinking Continental

Author : Tom Lynch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803299583
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Continental written by Tom Lynch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about “thinking continental”—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship. Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of more-personal narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.

The Spenser Encyclopedia

Author : A.C. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134934823
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Spenser Encyclopedia written by A.C. Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.