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Sentinel Island: A Novel

Author : Benjamin Hoffmann
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837642761
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Sentinel Island: A Novel written by Benjamin Hoffmann and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located some 600 miles from the coast of India, Sentinel Island is the home of the last people entirely cut off from the modern world, the Sentinelese. No one knows where they come from, what language they speak, their beliefs. Only one thing is certain: for centuries they have violently rejected outsiders who set foot on their island, including Venetian travellers, British colonists, shipwrecked Chinese, Malaysian poachers, European monarchs, or American missionaries. Sentinel Island tells the story of this people and of Krish and Markus, two friends who have little in common other than their fascination with this forbidden island. One is an anthropologist of Indian origin in a badly fraught marriage to an American woman; the other an unmarried New York editor, heir to an enormous fortune built in the art market. Swept up in a grand adventure, Sentinel Island is the story of peoples in far-flung places, friendship, class relations, contemporary America, the gradual unravelling of an interracial marriage—and the story of globalization and those who attempt to escape it.

The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781795053808
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island written by Charles River Editors and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading There is no record of Marco Polo ever visiting the Andaman Islands, so his brief description of the islanders must have been drawn from a secondary source. They were, he wrote, "a most brutish and savage race, having heads, eyes, and teeth like those of dogs. They are very cruel, and kill and eat every foreigner whom they can lay their hands upon." Most subsequent travelers and travelogues have tended to agree, although in an age of inclusion and diversity, the modern understanding and appreciation of the indigenous Andamanese is somewhat more sympathetic. Nonetheless, that one common theme has persisted, in particular in the many colonial-era chronicles, which were all written at a time when Darwin and his contemporaries were rationalizing evolution, and evolutionary divergence. How could it be, they ask, that a small pocket of the human race could be content to linger so far behind in the journey of human development? The Andaman and Nicobar Islands comprise a tiny archipelago of some 200 islands in the Indian Ocean. They are located in a seemingly insignificant spot in the Bay of Bengal, comprising a combined area of only 3,500 square miles, but the islands are a tropical idyll, populated by dark Indians drawn mainly from the east coast, with a curious aboriginal people who appear more African than Asian. The islands have been within sight of international shipping routes since the very birth of ocean travel, and yet, until the arrival of the great European trading enterprises, the archipelago remained virtually unvisited, and absolutely unsettled by any other than its indigenous inhabitants. The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island profiles the indigenous people, famous attempts to contact them, and what's known and unknown about them. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Sentinelese like never before.

Mine

Author : James Russell
Publisher : Dragon Brothers Books
ISBN 13 : 0473559366
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Mine written by James Russell and published by Dragon Brothers Books. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder and madness in the tropics. A back-packer's nightmare. Twenty-six-year-old Jimmy Brennan’s life has taken a turn for the worse, and he’s desperate to numb the pain. When his mother dies and his girlfriend betrays him, it’s the final straw; he leaves Australia behind, bound for Bali. But Jimmy’s demons chase him. Sickened by the filth and the rapacious tourists swarming the Indonesian holiday island, Jimmy escapes north up the archipelago, driven by a desire to be alone, and haunted by a self-destructive impulse. When he’s offered the opportunity to surf the outer reefs of the forbidden island of North Sentinel, home of a forgotten tribe which has violently rejected outside contact for centuries, Jimmy is reckless enough to take it. He finds his paradise, but it’s a decision that will have deadly consequences. “Exceptional!” - Ray Bisschop, publishing director, Surfing Life “Kicks along at a freight-train pace!” - Luke Kennedy, editor, Tracks magazine "They don't write them like this any more." - North and South magazine "Addictive and highly recommended!" - Otago Daily Times "Captivating and fast-paced!" - NZ Booklovers "One hell of a ride!" - The New Zealand Herald "Fast-paced and utterly immersive, with passages that will have your heart leaping into your throat. This is ‘Breath’ meets ‘The Beach’, but also a unique tale in its own right that will stay with the reader long after they read the last page." Eileen Merriman, best-selling author of Violet Black and The Silence of Snow. Reader reviews: "You'll find yourself on the edge of your seat for the duration." - Tom Marr "Thoroughly absorbing from start to finish... if you have an ounce of adventure left in your soul, then this book may be for you." - Simon Hurley "A future classic."- Justin Moor "Dark escapism from our toxic matrix." - Andrew Briggs "Readers of Tim Winton and Evie Wyld will find a direct descendant in James Russell."- Robin Taylor "Couldn't put it down" - Ken Nicolson "Gripping" - Shayne William "Intense" - Marco Milardi "Visceral" - Caleb Clarke "Sure to become a classic" - Steve Brecht "Electrifying!" - Justin Brown

Forbidden Island

Author : Jeremy Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941539378
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Island written by Jeremy Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEEKING TO CONTACT HUMANITY'S LOST TRIBE... On the precipice of a cliff, contemplating suicide, dishonorably discharged U.S. Army Ranger, Rowan Baer, is invited to provide security to a research team visiting the most dangerous island in the world--North Sentinel Island in the Sea of Bengal. Seeking redemption, he accepts. Living among Amazon rainforest tribes, eccentric Israeli anthropologist, Talia Mayer, is recruited to study the island's elusive inhabitants--the Sentinelese--who have resided on the tropical island since the dawn of mankind. Seeing the chance of a lifetime, she joins the team. On the run from his past, Palestinian linguist, Mahdi Barakat, is given little choice: join the expedition and make contact with the Sentinelese, or be left to face the men tracking him down. Afraid for his life, he finds safe harbor halfway around the world. As part of an expedition funded by the Indian government and supported by a local resort millionaire, the team struggles to make contact with the Sentinelese, a tribal people renowned for their violence, strange behavior, and mysterious ways. But when the expedition's yacht strikes a reef, and sinks, the team finds themselves stranded on an island few people have ever set foot on and survived, an island that they quickly discover is home to far more than primitive tribal people. ...THEY UNCOVER THE VERY SOURCE OF EVIL. Jeremy Robinson has been compared to both Matthew Reilly and Stephen King, and with Forbidden Island, he brings the characters and plotting of the fastest paced thrillers together with mind-bending horrors of which only an imagination like Robinson's can conceive.

The North Sentinel Island

Author : Anthony Marrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The North Sentinel Island written by Anthony Marrow and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to discover the captivating history of the North Sentinel Islanders, then keep reading this book! In this North Sentinelese history book, you will discover: - Who Are the Andamanese? - North Sentinel Island - The First Encounters - Unofficial Contacts Let's not waste any more time! Dive in and start reading!

The Sentinel

Author : Jeremy Bishop
Publisher : 47North
ISBN 13 : 9781611099065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Sentinel written by Jeremy Bishop and published by 47North. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two crews, one from a whaler and the other from the anti-whaling ship, the Sentinel, find themselves stranded on an island north of Greenland after a suspicious explosion sends both ships to the bottom. The opposing crews must work together to defend themselves against an ancient evil which may be the source of modern stories of both zombies and vampires.

Guardians of Fire

Author : D. B. Daglish
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502991775
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Guardians of Fire written by D. B. Daglish and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological novel about the little black skinned people we know as The Sentinelese. They are an untouched race that live on North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Ocean, (the Islands real name is Chiö-tá-kwö-kwe). Yet these endangered people are only 25 miles from a modern port settlement in the Andaman Islands called Port Blair. So little is known about them because they are unknown, mysterious, guarded and defensive. And they have been living the same way for thousands of years. With a belief in creation and benevolent spirits, they have a simplistic way of life, so basic they have no real concept of time as we know it. They will kill anyone who lands on their island unarmed, if they even managed to cross the sharp coral reef which is dangerous in itself. No one knows what they call themselves, but I did discover the real name of the island, as told by one who had left there and was recorded in an anthropologist's journal from the eighteen hundreds. I have therefore woven the story of this person into the book. There are many repeated YouTube clips and stories of these people, but no one had any real clue as to their actual lifestyle, beliefs and language, for their words are unintelligible to other islanders as they have been isolated for so long. 'Guardians of Fire' reveals as close to what is possible as anyone has attempted. As you read this story you will learn that they are not 'primitive', for they are better equipped to handle the world they know, than we are of ours. They are simplistic, but in some ways, they are better off than we are. This novel is based on whatever scant information can be found from journals, historical data, books written from British officials who have visited the island in the eighteen hundreds and right up to the nineteen nineties when some limited but meaningful contact was made by an Indian anthropologist Dr TD Pandit. I have discovered much about these people while doing that research. Although a novel, it is based on accurate observation of similar tribes in the area. I wrote this book because I wanted to know more about them myself. I can now share that with you as you journey with these amazing people over the last 200 years. You will be with them as they experience white humans for the first time, capture by the British, Japanese strafing in WW2, earthquakes and tsunami's. These are not only an isolated people but ones who are very resilient to that which goes on all around them which both fascinates and frightens them. I hope this book reveals the need to ensure absolute protection of these wonderful, special, but highly endangered people. Enjoy your discovery.

Sentinel

Author : Francesca Lidia Viano
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067497560X
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Sentinel written by Francesca Lidia Viano and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the improbable campaign that created America’s most enduring monument. The Statue of Liberty is an icon of freedom, a monument to America’s multiethnic democracy, and a memorial to Franco-American friendship. That much we know. But the lofty ideals we associate with the statue today can obscure its turbulent origins and layers of meaning. Francesca Lidia Viano reveals that history in the fullest account yet of the people and ideas that brought the lady of the harbor to life. Our protagonists are the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and his collaborator, the politician and intellectual Édouard de Laboulaye. Viano draws on an unprecedented range of sources to follow the pair as they chase their artistic and political ambitions across a global stage dominated by imperial rivalry and ideological ferment. The tale stretches from the cobblestones of northeastern France, through the hallways of international exhibitions in London and Paris, to the copper mines of Norway and Chile, the battlegrounds of the Franco-Prussian War, the deserts of Egypt, and the streets of New York. It features profound technical challenges, hot air balloon rides, secret “magnetic” séances, and grand visions of a Franco-American partnership in the coming world order. The irrepressible collaborators bring to their project the high ideals of liberalism and republicanism, but also crude calculations of national advantage and eccentric notions adopted from orientalism, freemasonry, and Saint-Simonianism. As entertaining as it is illuminating, Sentinel gives new flesh and spirit to a landmark we all recognize but only dimly understand.

The Unconquered

Author : Scott Wallace
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307462978
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Unconquered written by Scott Wallace and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes. Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus in the New World. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, author Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon’s uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest’s secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with one such tribe—the mysterious flecheiros, or “People of the Arrow,” seldom-glimpsed warriors known to repulse all intruders with showers of deadly arrows. On assignment for National Geographic, Wallace joins Brazilian explorer Sydney Possuelo at the head of a thirty-four-man team that ventures deep into the unknown in search of the tribe. Possuelo’s mission is to protect the Arrow People. But the information he needs to do so can only be gleaned by entering a world of permanent twilight beneath the forest canopy. Danger lurks at every step as the expedition seeks out the Arrow People even while trying to avoid them. Along the way, Wallace uncovers clues as to who the Arrow People might be, how they have managed to endure as one of the last unconquered tribes, and why so much about them must remain shrouded in mystery if they are to survive. Laced with lessons from anthropology and the Amazon’s own convulsed history, and boasting a Conradian cast of unforgettable characters—all driven by a passion to preserve the wild, but also wracked by fear, suspicion, and the desperate need to make it home alive—The Unconquered reveals this critical battleground in the fight to save the planet as it has rarely been seen, wrapped in a page-turning tale of adventure.

The History Of Sentinelese

Author : Brooke Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The History Of Sentinelese written by Brooke Henry and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to discover the captivating history of the North Sentinel Islanders, then keep reading this book! In this North Sentinelese history book, you will discover: - Who Are the Andamanese? - North Sentinel Island - The First Encounters - Unofficial Contacts Let's not waste any more time! Dive in and start reading!

Voices from the Lost Horizon

Author : Anvita Abbi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789391125066
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Lost Horizon written by Anvita Abbi and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * It has QR codes which can be scanned to gain access to rare documentations: audio-visuals of Great Andamanese songs and tales"It is fortunate that a scholar with Professor Abbi's tenacity, as well as her scientific credentials, was available and willing to conduct this work... The volume is a superb introduction for the layperson to the wonderful world that Professor Abbi has opened up for us." - Bernard Comrie, Santa Barbara, California. "For two decades now, Abbi has marshalled the full intellectual and strategic weight of her training, disciplinary expertise and socio-cultural capital to document, preserve and share with the world the voices, songs, stories and laughter of the Great Andamanese." - Mark Turin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The Andaman Islands -- Great Andaman, Little Andaman, and North Sentinel Islands have been home for milleniums to four tribes: the Great Andamanese, Onge, Jarawa, and Sentinelese. Their languages are known by the same name as that of the tribes. 'Great Andamanese' is a generic term representing ten languages among a family of languages that were once spoken by ten different tribes living in the north, south, and middle of the Great Andaman Islands. These languages were mutually intelligible like a link in a chain. However, today, Great Andamanese is a moribund language of the only-surviving pre-Neolithic tribe, breathing its last breath. When a language is on the verge of extinction, its history, culture, ecological base, knowledge of the biodiversity, ethno-linguistic practices, and the identity of its community -- everything is endangered. This is what prompted Prof. Anvita Abbi to conduct a research study to give life to the lost oral heritage of the vanishing world of the Great Andamanese. Voices from the Lost Horizon is a collection of a number of folk tales and songs of the Great Andamanese. These stories and songs represent the first-ever collection rendered to the Prof. Abbi and her team by the Great Andamanese people in local settings. The compilation comes with audio and video recordings of the stories and songs to retain the originality and orality of the narratives.

Island House

Author : Posie Graeme-Evans
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1922052256
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Island House written by Posie Graeme-Evans and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One warm rainy summer, Freya Dane, a PhD candidate in archaeology, arrives on the ancient Scottish island of Findnar. Estranged as a child from her recently dead father, himself an archaeologist, Freya yearns to understand more about the man, his work on the island, and why he left her mother so many years ago. It seems Michael Dane uncovered much of Findnar's Viking and Christian past through his search for an elusive tomb, and Freya continues with his work. The discoveries she is destined to make, far greater than her father's, will teach her the true meaning of love and of loss. AD 800, and a wandering comet, an omen of evil, shines down on Findnar. The fears of the locals are justified. In a Viking raid, Signy, a Pictish girl, loses her entire family. Taken in by survivors of the island's Christian community, she falls in love with an injured Viking youth left behind by the raiders and is cast out. Confused and bereft, eventually she becomes a nun, a decision that will unleash tragedy as she is plunged into the heart of a war between three religions. Forced to choose between her ancestors' Animist beliefs, her adopted faith, and the man she loves, Signy will call out to Freya across the centuries. Ancient wrongs must be laid to rest in the present and the mystery at the heart of Findnar's violent past exposed.

Danger Sector

Author : Jenifer LeClair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780980001709
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Danger Sector written by Jenifer LeClair and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on a leave of absence from work, Brie goes to Sentinel Island to repair a lighthouse with a sailing crew and winds up investigating a local artist's sudden disappearance, which becomes difficult as the locals refuse to help her.

Sentinel

Author : Anthony Melchiorri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Sentinel written by Anthony Melchiorri and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ashes of the ancients, a cataclysmic new threat rises. Born on a forsaken desert planet, Cole Shaw has two options--perish from starvation and disease or enlist in the New World Republic's armed forces. He chooses the military. For the first time, he thinks he has a shot at a better life. But survival is not guaranteed. Leading an elite team of mech operators, he is deployed to a frozen planet called Ferrous where dangerous relics of a past war lurk beneath the ice and savage creatures prowl the barren wastelands. Scientists on Ferrous are chasing rumors of godlike technologies buried in the ruins of a long-extinct civilization. When Shaw and his team are assigned to protect the researchers, they face an unexpected merciless new enemy desperate to stop them. An ancient secret has been awakened on Ferrous. The deadly race to claim this terrifying power has only just begun.

Island of Bones

Author : P. J. Parrish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739440025
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Island of Bones written by P. J. Parrish and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the bullet-ridden body of a woman, identified only by a strange ring on her finger, and a tiny skull wash up on shore, Detective Louis Kincaid makes a connection that takes him to a remote island rife with evil and betrayal.

Augustown

Author : Kei Miller
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101871628
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Augustown written by Kei Miller and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 April 1982: a smell is coming down John Golding Road right alongside the boy-child, something attached to him, like a spirit but not quite. Ma Taffy is growing worried. She knows that something is going to happen. Something terrible is going to pour out into the world. But if she can hold it off for just a little bit longer, she will. So she asks a question that surprises herself even as she asks it, "Kaia, I ever tell you bout the flying preacherman?" Set in the backlands of Jamaica, Augustown is a magical and haunting novel of one woman’s struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of history, race, class, collective memory, violence, and myth.

Marrow Island

Author : Alexis M. Smith
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9781328710345
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Marrow Island written by Alexis M. Smith and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new novel from the author of the acclaimed Glaciers tracks a young woman's return home to investigate a secretive community that has mysteriously rescued an island devastated by natural and chemical disaster--as well as taken hold of one of her oldest friends.