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Book Synopsis A Fragile Eden by : Malcolm James Coe
Download or read book A Fragile Eden written by Malcolm James Coe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located a thousand miles off the coast of Africa, 32 granite islands called the Seychelles are home to plant species found nowhere else in the world. Fearing the disappearance of this endangered flora, renowned botanical artist Rosemary Wise spent ten years painting the Seychelles' unique plant life in its natural habitat. This book features Wise's beautiful paintings along with her written descriptions of the plants. 79 color plates.
Download or read book Antarctica written by Jonathan Scott and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautiful large-format history of a surprisingly fragile Eden. 'A journey to Antarctica changes your life. It forces you to take a long hard look at the state of our planet and its last wild places!Antarctica promises man the chance to do something that he has never done before -- commit to the preservation of a vast wilderness, simply because it exists.' Best known for their African safaris, Jonathan and Angela Scott's other passion lies in their travels to Antarctica. When the sun sets at the end of a hot day in the Mara-Serengeti, they long for the austere and beautiful landscape of the Antarctic. A journey to the southern ocean offers an array of emblematic creatures -- penguins, albatrosses, seals and whales. A spectacular number of birds flock to the breeding colonies there each year, and whales gather in the southern oceans to feed during the Antarctic summer making it the perfect location for whale watching. But the recent boom in tourism is only the latest in a long history of man's attempt to own and exploit this icy wilderness. Weaving together the discovery stories of explorers such as Cook, Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen, with the ecological stories of whaling, mining and the greenhouse effect, the Scotts reveal man's impact on this remote and austere sanctuary for wildlife"--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Fragile Eden by : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Download or read book Fragile Eden written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by . This book was released on 1989-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Finding Eden by : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Download or read book Finding Eden written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sometimes it feels as though the whole planet has been so polluted and ravaged that there are no Edens left, but they are there to be found by those who step off the beaten track... So it was with mine.' Fifty years ago the interior of Borneo was a pristine, virgin rainforest inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes and naive, virtually tame, wildlife. It was into this `Garden of Eden' that Robin Hanbury-Tenison led one of the largest ever Royal Geographical Society expeditions, an extraordinary undertaking which triggered the global rainforest movement and illuminated, for the first time, how vital rainforests are to our planet. For 15 months, Hanbury-Tenison and a team of some of the greatest scientists in the world immersed themselves in a place and a way of life that is on the cusp of extinction. Much of what was once a wildlife paradise is now a monocultural desert, devastated by logging and the forced settlement of nomadic tribes, where traditional ways of life and unimaginably rich and diverse species are slowly being driven to extinction. This is a story for our time, one that reminds us of the fragility of our planet and of the urgent need to preserve the last untamed places of the world.
Download or read book Eden In Black written by Dana Krystle and published by Dana Krystle. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eden is an architecture student who faces mysterious dark circumstances in his life that causes him to unravel the truth about what happened in a past he has a hard time recalling.Excerpt : ⠀“I’m surrounded with blue fire, how can fire feel so cold? On top of me...the clouds are in shades of orange, and the sky is washed in gradients yellow, pink and red. An explosion of warm colors, I look around and all I can think of is a way out this fire...a pathway, staircase, anything. The sound of the fire burning...I can hear its cracking noise. I finally decide to look underneath me, only to realize that I’ve been standing on a complete transparent skyscraper of sort. The floor underneath is in complete transparency, I am on its roof. I fall on my feet terrified of falling, the fire seems to have spread through all the floors...the way down is far...how can anyone possibly leave this place? I freeze in my place. Terrified. It will break, this glass...it will break. It must break."
Book Synopsis Fragile Eden by : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Download or read book Fragile Eden written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Isis Large Print Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oceans written by James Fargo Balliett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering 71 percent of the planet, these saline bodies of water provided the unique conditions necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago. This book explains how our oceans continue to support and influence life in important ways: by providing the largest global source of protein in the form of fish populations, by creating and influencing weather systems, and by absorbing waste streams such as airborne carbon. It is shown how oceans have an almost magnetic draw—almost half of the world’s population lives within a few hours of an ocean. Although oceans are vast in size, exceeding 328 million cubic miles (1.37 billion cubic kilometers), they have been influenced by and have influenced humans in numerous ways. The book includes three detailed case studies. The first focuses on the most remote locations along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where new ocean floor is being formed twenty-thousand feet underwater. The second considers the Maldives, a string of islands in the Indian Ocean, where increasing sea levels may force residents to abandon some communities by 2020. The third describes the North Sea at the edge of the Arctic Ocean, where fishing stocks have been dangerously depleted as a result of multiple nations’ unrelenting removal of the smallest and largest species.
Book Synopsis Land of Eagles by : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Download or read book Land of Eagles written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albania is the least-known and least developed country in Europe. It has a long, rich and troubled past, characterised by unrest and isolationism. Today, very little is known of its people - beyond those who have emigrated to other countries in Europe - and its landscapes have remained virtually untravelled for centuries. Determined to discover the country behind the stereotypes and preconceptions, Robin Hanbury-Tenison and his wife Louella rode across Albania, from Thethi in the north to the border with Greece in the south. Following in the footsteps of Byron, Edward Lear and Edith Durham they crossed some of the wildest and arrestingly beautiful landscape in Europe. Through soaring mountain ranges and hidden valleys dotted with Illyrian, Roman and Byzantine ruins, they lived simply, staying in the homes of communities untouched by the 21st century and in towns bursting with artistic creativity. They discovered an ancient land, proud and fiercely independent, struggling to emerge from the darkness of repression and poverty and from the shadows of its more popular neighbours. Land of Eagles is the story of a lyrical and dramatic journey, peppered with adventure, mishap, discovery and unexpected encounters. Adorned with the history, legends and literature of Albania and with the tales of past travellers, it is a luminous portrait of this mysterious and eccentric country, which has for too long been forgotten by Europe.
Book Synopsis Traveling with Skeptics by : Ken Ewell
Download or read book Traveling with Skeptics written by Ken Ewell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling with Skeptics is the much anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed book, Traveling with Philosophes. However, due to the authors honest and straightforward portrayal of the people of France, he has incurred the wrath and condemnation of the French literary and intellectual establishment, with many persons voicing harsh opinions as regards this unique and insightful work. Insignificant writers cannot be crushed, they lie too flat beneath the foot. Honore de Balzac The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Clearly, this most presumptuous writer believes in nothing. Gustave Flaubert Since a person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance, this writer must be the happiest man in the world. Anatole France As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. As soon as he ceased to be stupid he became merely this writer. Marcel Proust This author should be deconstructed with the aid of a guillotine. Jacques Derrida There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is this authors suicide or murder. Albert Camus If Hell is other people, then this writer can go to Hell. Jean-Paul Sartre
Book Synopsis Articulating Change In The ""Last Unknown"" by : Frederick K. Errington
Download or read book Articulating Change In The ""Last Unknown"" written by Frederick K. Errington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book explores questions of identity and value posed by people living on (or near) the small Pacific island of Karavar in Papua New Guinea. The complex social and cultural changes that occurred during the century after Europeans first arrived in the area have led Karavarans to wonder about-and to assert-who they are and who they migh
Download or read book Life Sentences written by William H. Gass and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of essays by the author of Finding a Form explores themes of writing, form and thought while considering the author's life-long attachment to books, in a volume that considers the works of such favorites as Kafka, Nietzsche and Henry James.
Book Synopsis Anderson’s Travel Companion by : Compiled by Sarah Anderson
Download or read book Anderson’s Travel Companion written by Compiled by Sarah Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best in travel writing, with both fiction and non-fiction presented together, this companion is for all those who like travelling, like to think about travelling, and who take an interest in their destination. It covers guidebooks as well as books about food, history, art and architecture, religion, outdoor activities, illustrated books, autobiographies, biographies and fiction and lists books both in and out of print. Anderson's Travel Companion is arranged first by continent, then alphabetically by country and then by subject, cross-referenced where necessary. There is a separate section for guidebooks and comprehensive indexes. Sarah Anderson founded the Travel Bookshop in 1979 and is also a journalist and writer on travel subjects. She is known by well-known travel writers such as Michael Palin and Colin Thubron. Michael Palin chose her bookshop as his favourite shop and Colin Thubron and Geoffrey Moorhouse, among others, made suggestions for titles to include in the Travel Companion.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Victorian Poetry by : Ciaran Cronin
Download or read book A Companion to Victorian Poetry written by Ciaran Cronin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts. Explores the relationships between work by different poets Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter
Book Synopsis Jake's Escape by : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Download or read book Jake's Escape written by Robin Hanbury-Tenison and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a fishing trip goes wrong, twelve year old Jake finds himself alone and lost in the Amazon rainforest. Flesh-eating piranhas, infected wounds and attacks from vicious jungle creatures are the least of his worries - how is he going to ESCAPE?
Book Synopsis Ailing, Aging, Addicted by : Bert Edward Park
Download or read book Ailing, Aging, Addicted written by Bert Edward Park and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Australian National Bibliography by :
Download or read book Australian National Bibliography written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Finding His Eden by : Mandy Greenwood
Download or read book Finding His Eden written by Mandy Greenwood and published by Naomi Aoki. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today was Eden Haversham’s birthday. His twenty-fifth birthday. And maybe it hadn’t been wise to accept the invitation to meet at the bar, alone and without informing anyone. But when the mysterious benefactor who’d made his attending university possible, made the request then Eden couldn’t say no. He needed to know who the man was and why he’d gifted him so much money to study such an obscure topic. Except what Eden hadn’t expected was the devilishly handsome man who sat down next to him. A man who claimed to be the richest man in Silverdale City, Alric Drayton. And that was only the start of the man’s ludicrous claims. Alric Drayton had waited twenty-five years for the chance to finally reveal himself to Eden and make the man his. Yet while two-thousand years of living…of hoping that his fated mate would appear, had taught him patience, it was slowly wearing thin. And now that Alric had found his Eden, he had no intention of letting go. But there is more to Alric’s world than what is written in fairy tales. Finding His Eden is a paranormal Mpreg novella featuring a vampire who’s finally found his fated mate after two thousand years of waiting, and a human who learns the fairy tales he studies, are very real. Second Edition. Previously published under the series title Silverdale Coven.
