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Islands

Author : Louise B. Young
Publisher : W.H. Freeman
ISBN 13 : 9780716739661
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Islands written by Louise B. Young and published by W.H. Freeman. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once you have slept on an island, you'll never be quite the same", begins an old verse. Places of dreams and desires, islands have long held a primal sway over our hearts and imaginations. In this beautifully written, exquisitely illustrated book, Louise Young explores some of the most fascinating of these isolated landscapes, particularly those whose stories address the delicate balance that exists between the land, the people, and other living things. An environmentalist and geophysicist, Young describes the unique history and personality of each island -- its birth and evolution, the geology that has shaped its landscape, and its human, plant, and animal inhabitants. From the volcanic origins of Sri Lanka's spectacular jewel mines and the remarkable flora and fauna of Madagascar to the mysterious statues on Easter Island and the earth-splitting geology of Iceland, Islands takes readers on a breathtaking journey to some of the smallest -- yet most impressive -- places on the planet. The stories behind these miniature worlds are as varied as their exotic landscapes -- some are tragic, others are hopeful, but they all reveal important messages about preserving ecological balance and the consequences of how we exploit or nurture the larger island of Earth itself.

From Islands to Portraits

Author : Sergio Perosa
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586030551
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book From Islands to Portraits written by Sergio Perosa and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the long course of literature, islands have accumulated uncanny connotations of death, together with peculiarities of linguistic definition and expression. Since the age of discovery, after the Caribbean Islands, America itself, and later the archipelagos and atolls in the Pacific became known to travellers and conquistadores, islands have been sought, searched, explored and physically possessed as women; cultural recognition takes the form of sexual and physical possession (Venus was born from the sea, and is identified with an island). These are the themes of the first two variations discussed in this book.

Archipelago

Author : David Liittschwager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780792241881
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Archipelago written by David Liittschwager and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extending more than 1,200 miles from Honolulu, the dazzling Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are designated refuges of rare seabirds and marine life, where no one excerpt research may tread. This book vividly captures the quicksilver nature of this gossamer strand of shoals, atolls, and basalt islands.

Augustus F. Sherman

Author : Augustus F. Sherman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Augustus F. Sherman written by Augustus F. Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay by Peter Mesenholler.

These Islands

Author : Rosa Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993049743
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book These Islands written by Rosa Park and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cayman Islands

Author : Jenny Palmer
Publisher : MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN 13 : 9781405077248
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book The Cayman Islands written by Jenny Palmer and published by MacMillan Caribbean. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1503, Jenny Palmer has captured the beauty of the Islands and the lives of the peaceful, friendly people who live there. This book gives readers the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the islands exotic flora and fauna, including the Caymans national symbol, the green turtle. The Cayman Islands clear, crystalline waters are rich in marine life and magnificent coral reefs, making it one of the world's top diving sites.

Antigua Black; Portrait of an Island People

Author : Margo Baumgarten Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antigua Black; Portrait of an Island People written by Margo Baumgarten Davis and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

More Pacific Islands Portraits

Author : D. Scarr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780080329703
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book More Pacific Islands Portraits written by D. Scarr and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pacific Islands Portraits

Author : James Wightman Davidson
Publisher : Canberra : Australian National University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Islands Portraits written by James Wightman Davidson and published by Canberra : Australian National University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

More Pacific Islands Portraits

Author : Deryck Scarr
Publisher : Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book More Pacific Islands Portraits written by Deryck Scarr and published by Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences. This book was released on 1978 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 13 essays about people who lived in the Pacific Islands during the past 150 years.

Watriama and Co

Author : Hugh Laracy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Watriama and Co written by Hugh Laracy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portrait of an Island

Author : Mildred Teal
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820319612
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of an Island written by Mildred Teal and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mildred and John Teal moved to Sapelo Island, Georgia, in 1955, they stepped back in time to a virtually undeveloped landscape of salt marsh, maritime forest, freshwater ponds, sand dunes, and beaches. Over the course of a four-year stay their careful observations of the island's unique marine ecology and wonderfully varied flora and fauna became the basis for Portrait of an Island. The island's human history dates back more than four thousand years. The lure of Sapelo has drawn many to its shores, including tobacco millionaire R. J. Reynolds, who established the University of Georgia Marine Institute there in the 1950s. Surrounded by sixteen thousand acres of pristine marsh, Sapelo offers researchers and the public a rare opportunity for environmental studies. Now a state game refuge and national estuarine sanctuary, the island remains a special haven where humans and nature quietly and peacefully coexist. Portrait of an Island is essential reading for anyone who treasures tranquility.

Watriama and Co

Author : Hugh Laracy
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921666331
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Watriama and Co written by Hugh Laracy and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WATRIAMA AND CO (the title echoes Kipling's STALKY AND CO!) is a collection of biographical essays about people associated with the Pacific Islands. It covers a period of almost a century and a half. However, the individual stories of first-hand experience converge to some extent in various ways so as to present a broadly coherent picture of 'Pacific History'. In this, politics, economics and religion overlap. So, too, do indigenous cultures and concerns; together with the activities and interests of the Europeans who ventured into the Pacific and who had a profound, widespread and enduring impact there from the nineteenth century, and who also prompted reactions from the Island peoples. Not least significant in this process is the fact that the Europeans generated a 'paper trail' through which their stories and those of the Islanders (who also contributed to their written record) can be known. Thus, not only are the subjects of the essays to be encountered personally, and within a contextual kinship, but the way in which the past has shaped the future is clearly discernible. Watriama himself features in various historical narratives. So, too, certain of his confreres in this collection, which is the product of several decades of exploring the Pacific past in archives, by sea, and on foot through most of Oceania.

Portraits of Vancouver Island

Author : Chris Cheadle
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1772030813
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Vancouver Island written by Chris Cheadle and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2016 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chris Cheadle takes us on a tour of some of Vancouver Island's best and most beautiful locations. We are provided with an overview of the Island's history and suggestions on places to visit from the top of the island to the bottom."--

Portrait of an Island

Author : Mark Hinchman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080325413X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of an Island written by Mark Hinchman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The once-famous trading center of Gorée, Sénégal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Gorée became one of the intersections linking African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then as now, people of many nationalities poured into the island: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Tukulor, and Wolof. Trading parties brought with them gold, firewood, mirrors, books, and more. They built houses of various forms, using American lumber, French roof tiles, freshly cut straw, and pulverized seashells, and furnished them in a fashion as cosmopolitan as the city itself. A work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Multiple features of eighteenth-century Gorée—its demographic diversity; the prominence of women leaders; the phenomenon of identities in flux; and the importance of fashion and international trade—articulate its place in the construction of an early global modernity. An examination of the built and natural landscape, Portrait of an Island deciphers the material culture involved in the ever-changing relationships among male, female, rich, poor, free, and slave.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock Island County, Illinois

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock Island County, Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portrait of Greater Victoria and Southern Vancouver Island

Author : Chris Cheadle
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1894974956
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of Greater Victoria and Southern Vancouver Island written by Chris Cheadle and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2009 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-colour photographs by internationally recognized photographer Chris Cheadle showcase the diversity and beauty of Victoria and its surrounding environs. From spectacular destinations like The Butchart Gardens to windswept Jordan River, this book features all the key attractions and landmarks, making it a memorable gift and keepsake. Cheadle's photographic journey includes: the Inner Harbour and the world-famous landmarks Empress Hotel, Royal British Columbia Museum and Legislative Buildings; the winding, scenic marine drive from James Bay through to Cadboro Bay, including Beacon Hill Park; parks and historical sites in the western communities, including Fisgard Lighthouse and Fort Rodd Hill; East Sooke Park, the Sooke River potholes and other special places along the West Coast Highway; the Malahat, where travellers can drink in the breathtaking view of Saanich Inlet below.