The Dragonfly Sea

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Publisher : September Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912836491
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dragonfly Sea by : Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Download or read book The Dragonfly Sea written by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the most unforgettable books I have read in the last few years... What a writer! What a thinker! What a woman!' Fiammetta Rocco From the award-winning author of Dust comes a magical, sea-saturated, coming-of-age novel that transports readers from Kenya to China and Turkey. On an island in the Lamu Archipelago lives a solitary, stubborn child called Ayaana and her mother, Munira. When a sailor, Muhidin, enters their lives, the child finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life, leading her to distant countries and fraught choices. Selected as a descendant of long-ago Chinese shipwrecked sailors Ayaana is sent to study in China. Leaving her resourceful single mother, she is forced to grow up fast. Whether it's the scarred captain of the Chinese shipping container that transports Ayaana or the son of Turkish shipping magnate who trades in refugees, Owuor never loses a profound sense of empathy for her characters. She evokes a fascinating kind of beauty in this dangerous, chaotic world and its ever-shifting oceans and trade. Told with a glorious lyricism, The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent story of love and adventure, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world. 'One of Africa's most exciting voices ... The Dragonfly Sea is a continent-hopping novel of epic proportions.' Refinery29 'In its omnivorous interest in the world, The Dragonfly Sea is a paean to both cultural diffusion and difference . . . as much as [the novel] traces the globe, it also depicts an internal pilgrimage, its heroine in rose attar a broken saint.' New York Times 'Owuor continues to break ground among contemporary African writers.' Vanity Fair

Fisherman's Blues

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594634874
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Book Synopsis Fisherman's Blues by : Anna Badkhen

Download or read book Fisherman's Blues written by Anna Badkhen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND PASTE MAGAZINE An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed. The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere. For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find. Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable--between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and wonder.

South Africa and the Law of the Sea

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Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004210059
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis South Africa and the Law of the Sea by : P. H. G. Vrancken

Download or read book South Africa and the Law of the Sea written by P. H. G. Vrancken and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa and the Law of the Sea brings together the many threads of the rich South African marine-law tapestry by covering both the public international law as context and the details of South African marine law and policy within their African framework.

Deep-Sea Ecosystems Off Mauritania

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9402410236
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Deep-Sea Ecosystems Off Mauritania by : Ana Ramos

Download or read book Deep-Sea Ecosystems Off Mauritania written by Ana Ramos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles the main findings of the multidisciplinary long-term research program developed in the continental margin of one of the more productive and unknown areas of the world oceans, Northwest Africa. The more than 25,000 preserved fishes and benthic invertebrates and quantitative data collected in 342 trawling stations, the 267 oceanographic profiles, the 211 sediment samples and the 28,122 km2 prospected by multi˗beam echo sounding allowed to obtain an overview of the amazing biodiversity of the demersal and benthic fauna inhabiting soft- and hard-bottom habitats, as well as the fascinating geomorphology and oceanography, hidden in the Mauritanian slope.

Between the Sea and the Lagoon

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Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 : 9780852557778
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (577 download)

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Book Synopsis Between the Sea and the Lagoon by : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

Download or read book Between the Sea and the Lagoon written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a social interpretation of environmental process for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana.

Sea Change

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ISBN 13 : 9781928429128
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (291 download)

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Book Synopsis Sea Change by : Ross Frylinck

Download or read book Sea Change written by Ross Frylinck and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Other Side of the Sea

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813936489
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis The Other Side of the Sea by : Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Download or read book The Other Side of the Sea written by Louis-Philippe Dalembert and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Side of the Sea, the first novel by this major Haitian author to be translated into English, is riveted on the other shore--whether it is the ancestral Africa that still haunts Haitians, the America to which so many have emigrated, or even that final shore, the uncertain afterlife awaiting us all. With a grandmother and her grandson sharing the narration, this rich and concise tale covers an impressive span of Haitian history and emotion. Too old to leave her veranda, Noubòt reflects on her past, touching on the 1937 Parsley Massacre, in which thousands of Haitians died at the hands of Dominican soldiers, and laments the exodus of so many young people from Haiti, although, ironically, she dreamed of making the trip herself (her name means New Boat in Creole). Her story is juxtaposed with that of her grandson, Jonas, as he suffers the abandonment of friends--including his lover--who emigrated during the Duvalier dictatorships, even feeling an urge to join them. Perhaps most striking is the addition of a third voice--that of an anonymous passenger in steerage recounting a slave ship’s progress to the New World from Africa. This voice from long ago provides a powerful depiction of the sights, sounds, and smells of the Middle Passage and a fascinating counterpoint to the evocations of modern Haiti. CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French

Between the Sea and the Lagoon

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Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Between the Sea and the Lagoon by : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

Download or read book Between the Sea and the Lagoon written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes hailed as the quintessential sea fisherman of the West African coast, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. Since the mid-seventeenth century they have attempted to domesticate the lagoons and the sea through the exploitation of salt and fish, the use of waterways as trade routes, and the struggle to obtain security from lagoon flooding and sea erosion.".

Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395539637
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky by : Elphinstone Dayrell

Download or read book Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit.

Sea Shells of Southern Africa

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Sea Shells of Southern Africa by : Richard Kilburn

Download or read book Sea Shells of Southern Africa written by Richard Kilburn and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

East Africa and the Indian Ocean

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
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Book Synopsis East Africa and the Indian Ocean by : Edward A. Alpers

Download or read book East Africa and the Indian Ocean written by Edward A. Alpers and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For centuries, East Africa has played a central role within the Indian Ocean world. The Arabs built the first trade networks there; these were laid siege to by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, followed by British colonialists in the nineteenth century. An interregional trade linked different subregions of East Africa to other Indian Ocean economies. For example, Hindu merchants from Gujarat played a leading role in the ivory trade of East Africa during the past four centuries. In the nineteenth century, Zanzibar became a major center of the Asian slave trade. While slave trading, slave raiding, and their consequences provide one thematic focus of this book, the author also demonstrates that Indian Ocean commercial networks were much more complex in the range of products exchanged, including luxury goods and staple food items, as well as enforced labor. Islam provided yet another connective tissue linking East Africa to the Indian Ocean world and served as a cultural matrix through which popular beliefs and practices were transmitted. This book offers an eye-opening perspective on an often neglected area of world history."--Publisher's description.

Africa in the Indian Ocean

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004292497
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Africa in the Indian Ocean by : Tor Sellström

Download or read book Africa in the Indian Ocean written by Tor Sellström and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four sovereign Indian Ocean states of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles, the two French overseas departments of Mayotte and Reunion, as well as the British colony of BIOT (Chagos), all form part of Africa. As insular nations and territories in an increasingly globalized, militarized and largely unregulated ocean, they face particular challenges. Commonly overlooked in the fields of African and international studies, this text traces the islands’ history and explores their diverse contemporary social, political and economic trajectories. From human settlement and slavery to conflict resolution and piracy, the relations with continental Africa and the African Union feature prominently. Richly sourced, this comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to Africa’s Indian Ocean islands covers a significant lacuna.

Slavery at Sea

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098994
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Slavery at Sea by : Sowande M Mustakeem

Download or read book Slavery at Sea written by Sowande M Mustakeem and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze even more deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes--infamously known as the Middle Passage--comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery. Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons. As she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the the making--and unmaking--of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. Mustakeem relates how this process, and related power struggles, played out not just for adult men, but also for women, children, teens, infants, nursing mothers, the elderly, diseased, ailing, and dying. Mustakeem offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence transformed human beings into the world's most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries.

Africa and the International Law of the Sea:A Study of the Contribution of the African States to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Africa and the International Law of the Sea:A Study of the Contribution of the African States to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea by : N. Rembe

Download or read book Africa and the International Law of the Sea:A Study of the Contribution of the African States to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea written by N. Rembe and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctica & the Southern Ocean cover one-tenth of the earth's surface. In a legal & environmental sense, Antarctica represents the geography of hope. It is the freshest & most pristine of regions, governed by a legal regime that offers Antarctica & its circumpolar water the unique possibility of becoming the world's first global wilderness preserve. But in today's age of resource scarcity, Antarctica still provokes much political, economic & legal debate. Over the past decade, international attention has increasingly focused on the legal status of the continent, the potential for hydrocarbon exploitation offshore, & opportunities for harvesting circumpolar living marine resources. In this fascinating treatment, Christopher C. Joyner undertakes the first serious examination of the intimate relationship between Antarctica & the law of the sea. Using Antarctica as a case study, Joyner probes large conceptual issues of ocean law & politics. He uses the intricate details of oceanography & law to unravel the dynamics of the Antarctic Treaty System. In doing so, he examines how the changing importance of Antarctic issues has affected the development of the law of the sea for the region, the ways in which states define their national interests, & the accommodation through various negotations that have contributed to the development of law for governing the Southern Ocean. While the study of law for the Antarctic is provocative in itself, this work goes much farther. The study critically analyzes the region's biogeography, the condition of sovereignty on the continent, the lawfulness of asserting jurisdictional zones offshore, & various legal implications for Antarctica's continental shelf, local island groups, circumpolar deep seabed, & the Southern Ocean's high seas. Moreover, the special legal efforts by the international community to protect the Antarctic seas from marine pollution & to conserve its living marine resources are comprehensively appraised. Thorough, authoritative, & objectively reasoned, Antarctica & the Law of the Sea provides an insightful assessment of how law can progressively develop for a resource-rich region of the world's ocean. As such, it should appeal to a broad range of international lawyers & social scientists who are interested in international relations, political economy, environmental politics, & the law of the sea.

Smiths’ Sea Fishes

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642828582
Total Pages : 1205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Book Synopsis Smiths’ Sea Fishes by : Margaret M. Smith

Download or read book Smiths’ Sea Fishes written by Margaret M. Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. D. S. Henderson, Chairman of the 1. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology and Vice Chancellor of Rhodes University This book is a unique, international collaborative effort ranging all of the colour plates for the book. For the past of 76 scientists, representing 15 countries. Several skilled eight years, she has been assisted in the research, writing artists and photographers have also contributed to the and editing of the book by Dr. P. C. Heemstra. numerous and beautiful illustrations. Research done in It is essential for the proper management of the marine South Africa was supported by the Council for Scientific fish resources of southern Africa that we know what species and Industrial Research. Work on the book at the J.L.B. we are dealing with. This book will greatly facilitate the Smith Institute was also funded by the Department of identification of our fishes. It will thus be of vital import National Education and The Trustees of the Sea Fishes of ance to the understanding and wise use of our tremendously Southern Africa Book Fund. Expenses of visits by ichthy diverse and valuable fish fauna. ologists from overseas were defrayed by a grant from the We are proud of the affiliation of the J.L.B. Smith Insti John S. Schlesinger Foundation. tute with Rhodes University and happy to see the successful Although this book is an impressive contribution to the completion of this long-awaited work.

Africa and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics and International Law of the Common Heritage of Mankind

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642176623
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis Africa and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics and International Law of the Common Heritage of Mankind by : Edwin Egede

Download or read book Africa and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics and International Law of the Common Heritage of Mankind written by Edwin Egede and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by examining the role of African States in the development and establishment of the regime of the deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction (the Area) and the concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind.

Invasion of the Sea

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819574600
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Invasion of the Sea by : Jules Verne

Download or read book Invasion of the Sea written by Jules Verne and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English edition of a classic Verne novel. Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns — environmental, cultural, and political. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition.