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Author : Daniel Schreier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903292266
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Tristan Da Cunha and the Tristanians written by Daniel Schreier and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Schreier (Anglist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tristan Da Cunha written by Daniel Schreier (Anglist) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, social conditions, geology, and language of this archiipelago of islands (Tristan da Cunha, Nightingale, Inaccessible and Gough) located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Author : Conrad Glass
Publisher : Polperro Heritage Press
ISBN 13 : 0953001237
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Rockhopper Copper written by Conrad Glass and published by Polperro Heritage Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Tristan islanders, told by a direct descendant of the first settler there 200 years ago.
Author : Margaret Mackay
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125162
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Angry Island written by Margaret Mackay and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tristan da Cunha is both a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying approximately 1,511 miles (2,432 km) off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa, 1,343 miles (2,161 km) from Saint Helena and 2,166 miles (3,486 km) off the coast from the Falkland Islands. The territory consists of the main island, Tristan da Cunha, which has a diameter of roughly 11 km (6.8 mi) and an area of 98 sq km (38 sq mi), the smaller, uninhabited Nightingale Islands, and the wildlife reserves of Inaccessible Island and Gough Island. As of October 2018, the main island has 250 permanent inhabitants who all carry British Overseas Territories citizenship. The other islands are uninhabited, except for the personnel of a weather station on Gough Island. Tristan da Cunha is part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha. This includes Saint Helena and also near-equatorial Ascension Island, which lies some 1,741 miles (2,802 km) to the north of Tristan. There is no airstrip of any kind on the main island, meaning that the only way of travelling in and out of Tristan is by boat, a six-day trip from South Africa. Angry Island: The Story of Tristan da Cunha (1506-1963) by Margaret Mackay was first published in 1963, the year the Tristanians returned to their island after its volcano erupted in 1961 and forced the evacuation of the entire population to England. As the most isolated inhabited island on Earth, the Tristanians have had to adapt and develop innovative ways in order to survive, and in this book, Mrs. Mackay tells a very detailed history of Tristan da Cunha since its discovery over five hundred years ago, sharing many shipwreck tales and early yet failed attempts to settle the island. A gripping read!
Author : Gill Kimber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Between the Mountain and the Sea written by Gill Kimber and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tristan da Cunha in the middle of the South Atlantic is the world's loneliest inhabited island. In the 1950s my family lived there for five years. My memoir is a snapshot of life in this unique community, experiencing their ratting days, big heaps, a royal visit and the devastation when two boats were lost. It was an extraordinary childhood, unlike any other.
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ISBN 13 : 9781908787217
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Britain's Treasure Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Kornet-van Duyvenboden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dutchman on Tristan Da Cunha written by Sandra Kornet-van Duyvenboden and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Peter Green, a fisherman's son from the fishing village of Katwijk in the Netherlands who was shipwrecked in 1836 on Tristan da Cunha, an island in the middle of the South Atlantic.
Author : Ben Fogel
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141946229
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Teatime Islands written by Ben Fogel and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcomed with open arms, derided as a pig-ignorant tourist and occasionally mocked mercilessly for his trouble, Ben Fogle visited the last flag-flying outposts of the British Empire. With caution, dignity and a spare pair of pants thrown to the wind, he set out to discover just exactly who would choose to live on islands as remote as these and - more importantly - tried to figure out exactly why. Landing himself on islands so isolated, wind-swept, barren and just damned peculiar that they might have Robinson Crusoe thinking twice, Fogle: - Almost becomes lunch on the appropriately named Carcass Island - Gets deported from Pitcairn for being both a spy and a smuggler - Uncovers the story of the tyrant who became St Helena's most unwilling and least popular guest - And witnesses a shark attack from a respectable distance. Why he went, what he did when he got there and how exactly he got back in one piece makes for an eye-opening but affectionate look into life in these unique, peculiar places.
Author : Patrick Honeybone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199232814
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology written by Patrick Honeybone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical overview examines every aspect of the field including its history, key current research questions and methods, theoretical perspectives, and sociolinguistic factors. The authors represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective. The book is a valuable resource for phonologists and a stimulating guide for their students.
Author : Daniel Schreier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139619268
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)
Download or read book English as a Contact Language written by Daniel Schreier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in earlier forms of English (particularly Celtic influence in Old English), on language shift processes (the formation of Irish and overseas varieties) but also on dialects in contact, the contact origins of Standard English, the notion of new epicentres in World English, the role of children and adults in language change as well as transfer and language learning. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives for research and is at the same time an up-to-date overview of the state of the art in the respective fields.
Author : Paul Skandera
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197863
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Phraseology and Culture in English written by Paul Skandera and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its speakers' cultural patterns of thought and perception in various ways, for example through a culture-specific segmentation of the extralinguistic reality, the frequency of occurrence of particular lexical items, or the existence of keywords or key word combinations revealing core cultural values. The aim of this volume is to explore the cultural dimension of a wide range of preconstructed or semi-preconstructed word combinations in English. The 17 papers of the volume are divided into four sections, focusing on particular lexemes (e.g. enjoy and its collocates), types of word combinations (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English). The sections are preceded by a prologue, tracing the development of the study of formulaic language, and followed by an epilogue, which draws together the threads laid out in the various papers. The relation between language and culture in general has been explored in a number of important works over the past ten years. However, the study of the relation between English phraseology and culture in particular has been largely neglected. This volume is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to this topic.
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926236
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Krakatoa written by Simon Winchester and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel Morse, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of Alfred Wegener, the crack-pot German explorer and father of geology. In breathtaking detail he describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm whose echoes are still felt to this day.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626417
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book New-Dialect Formation written by Peter Trudgill and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African English, with a particular emphasis on the development of the newest major variety of the language, New Zealand English. Peter Trudgill argues that the linguistic growth of these new varieties of English was essentially deterministic, in the sense that their phonologies are the predictable outcome of the mixture of dialects taken from the British Isles to the Southern Hemisphere in the 19th century. These varieties are similar to one another, not because of historical connections between them, but because they were formed out of similar mixtures according to the same principles. A key argument is that social factors such as social status, prestige and stigma played no role in the early years of colonial dialect development, and that the 'work' of colonial new-dialect formation was carried out by children over a period of two generations. The book also uses insights derived from the study of early forms of these colonial dialects to shed light back on the nature of 19th-century English in the British Isles.
Author : Talia Domenico
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1786346931
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Big Data And The Computable Society: Algorithms And People In The Digital World written by Talia Domenico and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data and algorithms are changing our life. The awareness of importance and pervasiveness of the digital revolution is the primary element from which to start a path of knowledge to grasp what is happening in the world of big data and digital innovation and to understand these impacts on our minds and relationships between people, traceability and the computability of behavior of individuals and social organizations.This book analyses contemporary and future issues related to big data, algorithms, data analysis, artificial intelligence and the internet. It introduces and discusses relationships between digital technologies and power, the role of the pervasive algorithms in our life and the risk of technological alienation, the relationships between the use of big data, the privacy of citizens and the exercise of democracy, the techniques of artificial intelligence and their impact on the labor world, the Industry 4.0 at the time of the Internet of Things, social media, open data and public innovation.Each chapter raises a set of questions and answers to help the reader to know the key issues in the enormous maze that the tools of info-communication have built around us.
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061795887
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Loved China written by Simon Winchester and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically advanced country. No cloistered don, this tall, married Englishman was a freethinking intellectual, who practiced nudism and was devoted to a quirky brand of folk dancing. In 1937, while working as a biochemist at Cambridge University, he instantly fell in love with a visiting Chinese student, with whom he began a lifelong affair. He soon became fascinated with China, and his mistress swiftly persuaded the ever-enthusiastic Needham to travel to her home country, where he embarked on a series of extraordinary expeditions to the farthest frontiers of this ancient empire. He searched everywhere for evidence to bolster his conviction that the Chinese were responsible for hundreds of mankind's most familiar innovations—including printing, the compass, explosives, suspension bridges, even toilet paper—often centuries before the rest of the world. His thrilling and dangerous journeys, vividly recreated by Winchester, took him across war-torn China to far-flung outposts, consolidating his deep admiration for the Chinese people. After the war, Needham was determined to tell the world what he had discovered, and began writing his majestic Science and Civilisation in China, describing the country's long and astonishing history of invention and technology. By the time he died, he had produced, essentially single-handedly, seventeen immense volumes, marking him as the greatest one-man encyclopedist ever. Both epic and intimate, The Man Who Loved China tells the sweeping story of China through Needham's remarkable life. Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself great—related by one of the world's inimitable storytellers.
Author : D. Schreier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230505260
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Isolation and Language Change written by D. Schreier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic fieldwork on the most remote island in the world with a permanent population, Tristan da Cunha. It documents the historical formation of a unique local dialect and investigates the sociolinguistic mechanisms that underlie dialect contact and new-dialect formation. It also uncovers the linguistic consequences of post-insularity - language change processes as a result of increasing contacts with other communities and speakers. Researchers and students of language variation will find this book a unique resource.
Download or read book Turbellarians of Tristan Da Cunha written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
