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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Author : Judith Schalansky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143126679
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands written by Judith Schalansky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.

Water-quality Reconnaissance of Ground Water in the Inhabited Outer Islands of Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, 1984-85

Author : Scott N. Hamlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Water-quality Reconnaissance of Ground Water in the Inhabited Outer Islands of Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, 1984-85 written by Scott N. Hamlin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islands Beyond the Horizon

Author : Roger Lovegrove
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191651907
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Islands Beyond the Horizon written by Roger Lovegrove and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands have an irresistible attraction and an enduring appeal. Naturalist Roger Lovegrove has visited many of the most remote islands in the world, and in this book he takes the reader to twenty that fascinate him the most. Some are familiar but most are little known; they range from the storm-bound island of South Georgia and the ice-locked Arctic island of Wrangel to the wind-swept, wave-lashed Mykines and St Kilda. The range is diverse and spectacular; and whether distant, offshore, inhabited, uninhabited, tropical or polar, each is a unique self-contained habitat with a delicately-balanced ecosystem, and each has its own mystique and ineffable magnetism. Central to each story is also the impact of human settlers. Lovegrove recounts unforgettable tales of human endeavour, tragedy, and heroism. But consistently, he has to report on the mankind's negative impact on wildlife and habitats — from the exploitation of birds for food to the elimination of native vegetation for crops. By looking not only at the biodiversity of each island, but also the uneasy relationship between its wildlife and the involvement of man, he provides a richly detailed account of each island, its diverse wildlife, its human history, and the efforts of conservationists to retain these irreplaceable sites.

Ikat from Timor and Its Outer Islands

Author : Peter Ten Hoopen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789464280135
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Ikat from Timor and Its Outer Islands written by Peter Ten Hoopen and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically, this technical perspective highlights the human factor. Focused on the last century of the colonial period, we see the weaver's decisions in close-up, as if we are sitting next to her. This yields rich insights, not just in materiality, but also in the weavers' creativity. Asymmetry is widely distributed in the region, yet has largely been ignored. This is curious, because asymmetry is highly interesting: it goes against ikat's technical diktat (which prescribes the production of two identical panels in parallel), hence requires extra work. Seven distinct ways to achieve asymmetry are differentiated, including visual tricks and illusions, flagrant displays of virtuosity, and intellectual superiority. On Sumba, women of the nobility made thrilling and amusing efforts to hide their virtuosity, dyeing into their men's cloths tiny visual devices, secret keys, which revealed that their work was not just good, but luar biasa, out of the ordinary. Ironically, because these late 19th- and early 20th-century dyers were such great masters at hiding their virtuosity, it remained overlooked by generations of researchers. Taking up Marie Jeanne Adams's 1969 call, so far unheeded, to deepen the study of Indonesian ikat textiles by means of microscopy, the author shot thousands of micro-photographs, allowing a study of yarn development over time, as well as the differentiation of 21 distinct weave types, a number far exceeding expectation, and their distribution across 41 ikat weaving regions in the Indonesian archipelago. In the final chapter, the author analyses what may have spurred the weavers of the region to create their most intricate, most time consuming, feats of artistry, and develops a view of these women as far more inventive and intelligent than they have been credited with before - and more assertive, using ikat's prestige to spin their men into a web of taboos and prescriptions.

The Inner Islands

Author : Bland Simpson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876747
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Islands written by Bland Simpson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolina's inner coast. In each of the fifteen chapters in the book, Simpson covers a single island or group of islands, many of which, were it not for the buffering Outer Banks, would be lost to the ebbs and flows of the Atlantic. Instead they are home to unique plant and animal species and well-established hardwood forests, and many retain vestiges of an earlier human history.

An Outcast of the Islands

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book An Outcast of the Islands written by Joseph Conrad and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An Outcast of the Islands" by Joseph Conrad. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0792257197
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country written by Louise Erdrich and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An account of Louise Erdrich's trip through the lakes and islands of southern Ontario with her 18-month old baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader and guide"--

Outer Islands

Author : Gary Kissick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Outer Islands written by Gary Kissick and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amazing Islands: 100+ Places That Will Boggle Your Mind

Author : Sabrina Weiss
Publisher : Our Amazing World
ISBN 13 : 9781912920150
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Islands: 100+ Places That Will Boggle Your Mind written by Sabrina Weiss and published by Our Amazing World. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fact-filled, colourful celebration of island life, achievements and diversity Discover 100 of the planet's most magical islands - their wildlife, trees, diversity, people, treasures and more - in this beautifully illustrated book. Islands are amazing. On the Galapagos islands, Charles Darwin learnt how bird species evolved over time. In China, there is a natural island that is home to an incredible giant bookshop. On the Norwegian island of Svalbard, there is a vault built into the mountainside that contains seeds of the world's food plants to protect them in the event of a global crisis. South Georgia Island in the Atlantic Ocean has seen many scientific expeditions, including the journey of Sir Ernest Shackleton... There is lots more to discover in this stunning book that celebrates island life, achievements and diversity.

Anthropocene Islands

Author : Jonathan Pugh
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
ISBN 13 : 1914386019
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Anthropocene Islands written by Jonathan Pugh and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A must read … a new analytical agenda for the Anthropocene, coherently drawing out the power of thinking with islands.' – Elena Burgos Martinez, Leiden University ‘This is an essential book. [The] analytics they propose … offer both a critical agenda for island studies and compass points through which to navigate the haunting past, troubling present, and precarious future.’ – Craig Santos Perez, University of Hawai’i, Manoa ‘All academic books should be like this: hard to put down. Informative, careful, sometimes devasting, yet absolutely necessary - if you read one book about the Anthropocene let it be this. You will never think of islands in the same way again.’ – Kimberley Peters, University of Oldenburg ‘ … a unique journey into the Anthropocene. Critical, generous and compelling’. — Nigel Clark, Lancaster University The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene.

Beyond the Java Sea

Author : Paul Michael Taylor
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Java Sea written by Paul Michael Taylor and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published on the occasion of Beyond the Java Sea: art of Indonesia's outer islands, an exhibition organized and circulated by The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C."--title page verson.

21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Construction of Remote Islands and Reefs

Author : Chongwei Zheng
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981108114X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book 21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Construction of Remote Islands and Reefs written by Chongwei Zheng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the construction of remote islands and reefs in the Maritime Silk Road. Firstly, it analyzes the functions, necessity and difficulties of the construction of remote islands and reefs; then provides corresponding countermeasures. According to the urgent demand of electricity and freshwater, it focus on wave and offshore wind energy evaluation of the important remote islands and reefs of the Maritime Silk Road, providing reference for the choice of location of power plants, daily operation and long term plan of wave/wind power generation. Several important key points are selected in the case study to realize their electricity and freshwater self-sufficiency and thus to improve their viability. This book also presents the marine characteristics (especially hazardous elements) under the demands of island runway construction and marine new energy development, to promote safe and efficient implementation of the remote islands and reefs construction. This book is one of the series of publications on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (shortened as “Maritime Silk Road”). It covers the characteristics of the marine environment and marine new energy, remote islands and reefs construction, climate change, early warning of wave disasters, legal escort, marine environment and energy big data construction, etc. contributing to the safe and efficient construction of the Maritime Silk Road. It aims to improve our knowledge of the ocean, thus to improve the capacity for marine construction, enhance the viability of remote islands and reefs, ease the energy crisis and protect the ecological environment, improve the quality of life of residents along the Maritime Silk Road, and protect the rights, interests of the countries and regions participating in the construction of the Maritime Silk Road. It will be a valuable reference for decision-makers, researchers, and marine engineers working in the related fields.

Outlying Islands

Author : David Greig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571217601
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Outlying Islands written by David Greig and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, two young Cambridge ornithologists arrive on a remote, uninhabited Scottish island, sent by the government to survey the island's birds. With them on the island are Kirk, the authoritarian leaseholder, and his niece Ellen, a young woman in love with the stars of silent comedy. Left alone on a scrap of land surrounded by the vast Atlantic, they observe each other.Poetic, intense and gripping, Outlying Islands is a glimpse of an innocence, a way of seeing and a way of being young that is about to be destroyed forever.Outlying Islands was premièred at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in July 2002 and transferred to the Royal Court, London in Autumn 2002.

Islands at the Edge of Time

Author : Gunnar Hansen
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559632522
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Islands at the Edge of Time written by Gunnar Hansen and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.

The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake

Author : William B. Cronin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801874352
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake written by William B. Cronin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.

The Barnacle Goose

Author : Jeffrey M. Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472911563
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Barnacle Goose written by Jeffrey M. Black and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barnacle Goose, a distinctive, handsome black-and-white bird, gets its name from a mediaeval myth that the birds hatched from barnacles – how else to explain their sudden appearance each autumn in northern Britain? We now know, of course, that the birds migrate from Arctic Russia, Norway and Svalbard to winter throughout northern Europe. This book represents a culmination of more than 25 years of Barnacle Goose research. It represents the story of one of Europe's most celebrated long-term behavioral studies, detailing the lives of these social and sociable birds. Chapters include sections on pair formation and bonding, family and population dynamics, brood parasitism, food and feeding, size and shape in different populations, life cycle, survivorship, dispersal, migration, and conservation, with particular regard to climate change. It is a rigorous and thorough examination of the lives of these birds, in fine Poyser tradition.

Islands

Author : Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0061745316
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Islands written by Anne Rivers Siddons and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anne Rivers Siddons’s novels are women’s stories in the best sense, pulling you into the internal landscape of her characters’ lives and holding you there.” – People A poignant novel of the love that unites us and the secrets that drive us apart, Islands is New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons at her lyrical best—a glorious evocation of the people and the place she knows so well. Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her family—not a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate family. They are called the Scrubs, and they all, in some way, have the common cord of family. Instantly upon meeting them at the old beach house on Sullivan's Island, which they co-own, Anny knows that she has found home and family. They vow that, when the time comes, they will find a place where they can live together by the sea. Bad things begin to happen—a hurricane, a fire, deaths—but still the remaining Scrubs cling together. They are watched over and bolstered by Camilla Curry, the heart and core of their group, always the healer. Anny herself allows Camilla to enfold and to care for her. It is the first time she has felt this kind of love and support.