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Author : Paul Blackburn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Halfway Down the Coast written by Paul Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael McKeown
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178088513X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Halfway Down an African Moon written by Michael McKeown and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half Way Down an African Moon is a distillation of journeys made in sub Saharan Africa between 1972 and 2005. During these journeys, I came to know an older Africa, of ancient story-telling, wisdoms and simple courtesies living on unchanged beside the almost seismic political and social changes that marked the post-Independence era. It took me many years to realise this and with it the futility of trying to understand Africa through Western ideas and ideology. The views, for example, of a Lagos market woman fashioned by a cosmology of tribal deities and ancestral spirits are a world away from our own beliefs and creation myth - whatever the missionaries may think. One of the two aims of this book is to transmit something of all this, along with the good humour, tolerance and resilience of the people I encountered, to the reader. The second aim is to highlight the destruction of wildlife and its habitat that is transforming whole regions almost beyond recognition and pushing many species to the brink of extinction. How much some may ask, does all this matter? Will our world be any worse off if the mountain gorilla, the white ruffed lemur or the black rhino fade into extinction? I happen to believe it would and suspect that a great many people would feel so too. For the natural world is something that affects us all. Today, in Europe and the United States more people visit national parks and zoos than attend all kinds of sporting events in a single year. What is it then about wild animals and wild places that attract people in such numbers? The answer is that we are reminded, however tenuously, of something deep and ancient within ourselves and which we yearn to communicate with. Quite simply we need the wild which is why I believe this book is of relevance not only to readers who have visited Africa or plan to do so but for the millions of people increasingly concerned by the mounting destruction of all that is beautiful, wild and free.
Author : Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593541995
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book By the Sea written by Abdulrazak Gurnah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants’ conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession—a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise, silence his only protection. Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, a distinguished young professor, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When the two encounter each other in an English seaside town, the narratives each carries of their mutual past begin to unravel—revealing an infinitely more fascinating story of love and betrayal, seduction and possession, and of a people desperately trying to find stability amidst the maelstrom of their times.
Author : Harry Alverson Franck
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Roaming Through the West Indies written by Harry Alverson Franck and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Nightingale
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031214007X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Lost Coast written by Steven Nightingale and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of those bars, in the town of Eureka, in the middle of a spring day when the light runs sweet, seven people gather: Cookie, a cowgirl, fry-cook, hard drinker; Chiara, a professor on sabbatical, and on the run; her sixteen-year old daughter, Izzy, of doubtful paternity; the painter Renato, whose lonesome years at work have concentrated his amorous disposition.
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Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1864703318
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Coast written by and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the beauty of the humble beach house, and the beauty of the beach, in this tribute to seaside shelters, grand and small.
Author : Chris McIntyre
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841621579
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Zanzibar written by Chris McIntyre and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travel guide to Zanzibar. It includes a chapter on Mafia Island in addition to Zanzibar and Pemba Islands.
Author : Joseph W. Michels
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532028032
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Deck Passage written by Joseph W. Michels and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956, as a nineteen-year-old university student, the author set out with a companion on a two-month journey around the Eastern Mediterranean. A unique feature of the trip was their decision to hitchhike. The journey began in Madrid, Spain. Warand the threat of warposed barriers to a continuous land-based effort, inspiring them to book deck passage on tramp steamers plying the Mediterranean whenever the need arose. Less than a dozen years after the Second World War, it was a time when Americans were well received wherever they went. It was also a time when university students of all nationalities were held in high regard. Capitalizing on these two sentiments, the author and his companion navigated the treacherous currents of cultural misunderstanding, rigid officialdom, and language to arrive at their intended destinationIstanbul, Turkeyjust as planned. The memoir recounts their adventures hitchhiking down to Sicily; taking deck passage to Malta and on to Benghazi, Libya; hitchhiking across North Africa; taking deck passage to Beirut; hitchhiking through the Middle East; and finally boarding the famed Orient Express in Istanbul, Turkey, for a memorable train trip behind the Iron Curtain.
Author : Charne Lavery
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030871169
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Writing Ocean Worlds written by Charne Lavery and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporary authors who write the Indian Ocean as a region and world—Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Lindsey Collen—alongside maritime-imperial precursor Joseph Conrad. If postcolonial literatures are sometimes read as national allegories, this book presents an account of a different and significant strand of postcolonial fiction whose geography, in contrast, is coastal and transoceanic. This work imaginatively links east Africa, south Asia and the Arab world via a network of south-south connections that precedes and survives European imperialism. The novels and stories provide a vivid, storied sense of place on both a local and an oceanic scale, and in so doing remap the world as having its centre in the ocean and the south.
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Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Army History written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard O'Kane
Publisher : Presidio Press
ISBN 13 : 0307874281
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Clear the Bridge! written by Richard O'Kane and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Tang and her gallant crew ranks with the most amazing of naval history. Whether rescuing Navy fliers off Truk or stalking enemy convoys off Japan, Tang carried the war to the enemy with unparalleled ferocity. Tang’s skipper on all five of her war patrols, Rear Admiral Richard H. O’Kane is acknowledged as the top submarine skipper of World War II. His personal decorations include three Navy Crosses and the Congressional Medal of Honor. He retired as a rear admiral from his command of the Submarine School, rounding out twenty years with the boats. He also wrote the classic Wahoo: The Patrols of America’s Most Famous WWII Submarine. Praise for Clear the Bridge! “There is no doubt that Tang was the best. . . . Most of the rest of us wondered what it was she had that the others didn’t. And here it is, in this extraordinary ‘tell it as it really happened’ book, written by the most daring, most professional submarine skipper of the war.”—Capt. Edward Beach, author of Run Silent, Run Deep “A classic of naval literature. . . . A stirring tribute, not only to [Richard O’Kane’s] gallant crew, but to all World War II submariners.”—Michael D. Hull, Military Magazine “Reading of [Tang’s] career and of the men aboard her is one of the great reading experiences of my life.”—Broox Sledge, The Book World
Author : Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Collected Reprints written by Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Shaffer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250013682
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Last Line written by Anthony Shaffer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DRUG WAR is about to become A REAL WAR. Chris Teller may be the best in the intelligence business, but that doesn't mean he's the most popular. Far from it, in fact. While he may be a threat to the status quo, however, the only thing saving him from expulsion is an even greater threat to his country, one that's already within our borders. With Mexico descending into anarchy, the drug cartels have kicked up the heat, allying with Hezbollah and the Iranian secret service in a plot aimed at nothing less than the destruction of the United States of America. As Teller races to unravel the plot, he discovers that the most dangerous and pernicious enemies are not bloodthirsty drug lords, but a terrifying and treasonous cabal within the U.S. government itself. Former military intelligence officer Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer made headlines when his memoir, Operation Dark Heart, faced Department of Defense censorship. Now he returns with The Last Line, an eye-opening thriller rooted in the shadow world of espionage, government power, and betrayal.
Author : Bruce Parker
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230112242
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Power of the Sea written by Bruce Parker and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of the Sea describes our struggle to understand the physics of the sea, so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its fury against us. In a wide-sweeping narrative spanning much of human history, Bruce Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves thrilling and often moving stories of unpredicted natural disaster with an accessible account of scientific discovery. The result is a compelling scientific journey, from ancient man's first crude tide predictions to today's advanced early warning ability based on the Global Ocean Observing System. It is a journey still underway, as we search for ways to predict tsunamis and rogue waves and critical aspects of El Niño and climate change caused by global warming.
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Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book NOAA Coastal Ocean Program Regional Synthesis Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tina Steiner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000418081
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Convivial Worlds written by Tina Steiner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discovers everyday forms of conviviality in fiction and life writing from Eastern and Southern Africa. It focuses on ordinary moments of recognition, of hospitality, of humour and kindness in everyday life to illuminate the significance of repertoires of repair in a world broken by relations of power. Through close readings of specific capacities of living with difference, the book excavates ideas of world-making, personhood and the possibilities of alternative social imaginaries from African perspectives. It highlights evanescent and more durable attempts at building solidarity across local and translocal settings by focussing on modes of address that invite reciprocity in contexts of injustice, which include Apartheid, colonialism, racism, patriarchy and xenophobia. Putting current research on conviviality in conversation with the literary texts, the book demonstrates how conviviality emerges as an enabling ethical practice, as critique and survival strategy and as embodied lived experience. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of Literary and Cultural Studies, especially Postcolonial Literature, African Studies and Indian Ocean Studies.
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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
