Birth Of The Inland Sea
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Birth Of The Inland Sea
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Author : Ellen Lloyd Trover
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-28
Birth Of The Inland Sea written by Ellen Lloyd Trover and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-28 with Salton Sea (Calif.) categories.
Based on early Twentieth Century accounts, Birth of the Inland Sea explains how the Salton Sea came to be. With 105 early photographs and maps, plus 27 modern photographs and a map of the Sea, the book graphically sets the background for today's news that the Sea is rapidly shrinking.
The Inland Sea
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Author : Donald Richie
language : en
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Release Date : 2015-09-28
The Inland Sea written by Donald Richie and has been published by Stone Bridge Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-28 with Travel categories.
"An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre."—Publishers Weekly In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existential ruminations on food, culture, and love and his brilliant descriptions of life and landscape are a window into an Old Japan that has now nearly vanished. Included are the twenty black and white photographs by Yoichi Midorikawa that accompanied the original 1971 edition. Donald Richie (1924–2013) was an internationally recognized expert on Japanese culture and film. Yoichi Midorikawa (1915–2001) was one of Japan's foremost nature photographers.
The Inland Sea
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Author : Madeleine Watts
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2021-01-12
The Inland Sea written by Madeleine Watts and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Fiction categories.
In this "eloquent debut," a young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present (Publishers Weekly). Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. Callers report car accidents and violent spouses and homes caught up in flame. The work becomes monotonous: answer, transfer, repeat. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins walking home with keys in hand, ready to fight off men disappointed by what they find in neighboring bars. During her free time, she gets black-out drunk, hooks up with strangers, and navigates an affair with an ex-lover whose girlfriend is in their circle of friends. Two centuries earlier, her great-great-great-great-grandfather--the British explorer John Oxley--traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea, but the myth was taken up by other men, and over the years, search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. Interweaving a woman's self-destructive unraveling with the gradual worsening of the climate crisis, The Inland Sea is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent, this novel asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency.
The Inland Sea
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Author : Donald Richie
language : en
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Release Date : 1986
The Inland Sea written by Donald Richie and has been published by Trafalgar Square Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Travel categories.
One of the finest travel memoirs ever written, with a new Introduction and Afterword.
A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea
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Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea written by Ursula K. Le Guin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
A new collection of short fiction.
A Victorian Sailor S Grave In The Seto Inland Sea
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Author : Graham Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Graham Thomas
Release Date : 2018-09-12
A Victorian Sailor S Grave In The Seto Inland Sea written by Graham Thomas and has been published by Graham Thomas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-12 with Travel categories.
In 1868, Frank Toovey Lake, a young British Midshipman, died while serving with the Royal Navy and was interred on the island of Hiroshima in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. Up until recently Lake’s grave on Hiroshima had been identified only by his family name ‘Lake,’ and he was described as an English officer who died while serving on the Royal Navy survey ship, HMS Sylvia. However no further information on Lake could be found until new research showed that in one important detail these facts were wrong: namely that the ship had been incorrectly identified as HMS Sylvia when in fact he died on HMS Manilla. From knowing this, it has now been possible to give the young officer his full name, Frank Toovey Lake, and to build an understanding of his life. Since the burial the islanders have both maintained and improved the grave until the present day. This led to admiration among the late-19th century British community in Japan (including prominent members such as Sir Ernest Satow and Thomas Glover), and a flurry of newspaper articles appeared around the world in 1899 recounting the story and praising the conscientiousness of the local people. Since then the grave’s story has made only sporadic appearances in the media but continues to be celebrated locally. This grave is far from unique: the graves of many foreigners can be found in Japan, most within the foreign cemeteries in cities such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki and to whose numbers we can add those of souls buried at sea within Japan’s waters. But there are at least two good reasons to celebrate its continued existence. First, in the mid-19th century as Japan became more accessible to the outside world this created, at least initially, mutual distrust between foreigners and Japanese; these newcomers were viewed as barbarians and intruders (albeit at times justifiably), and this was a period when some were slain and their vessels fired upon. So without suggesting that widespread conflict existed - because it didn’t - nonetheless it is notable that during this period a group of villagers decided to care for and not destroy the grave, and that today this grave is as well tended as ever. Second, at one time Lake’s death was commemorated on a monument in the churchyard of the village where he was born. A few years ago that monument - along with other Toovey graves - was swept away, the graveyard cleared for ease of maintenance, and all trace of Frank Toovey Lake has now gone. This story also touches on other aspects of Japan and Britain’s 19th century history not least the display of typical contradictory characteristics of Pax Britannica in the Inland Sea: the rapid deployment of the Royal Navy into Japan’s territorial waters yet undertaking surveying and other benign operations; the threat and occasional use of gunboat diplomacy, and at times an arrogance towards the country yet countered by great affection for the place and its people by some - or many -individuals. The story also involves personalities such as Richard Henry Brunton, T B Glover and the British diplomat Ernest Satow who took important roles in helping Japan develop. In short, the story of Lake and his grave is more than the story of an individual and a granite monument.
Our Inland Sea
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Author : Alfred Lambourne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Our Inland Sea written by Alfred Lambourne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Great Salt Lake (Utah). categories.
A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea
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Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-05-26
A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea written by Ursula K. Le Guin and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Fiction categories.
'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER The winner of the National Book Award, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a profound and transformational literature. The award-winning stories in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart. Astonishing in their diversity and power, they exhibit both the artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of wonder still intact.
At The Inland Sea
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Author : Edward Bond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
At The Inland Sea written by Edward Bond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with categories.
Written for the Big Brum Theatre-in-Education company, 'At the Inland Sea' is a strange, searing, dream-like play, showing a child coming face to face with humanity, and all its horror and neglect. As a boy prepares for the first day of his exams, fussed over by his mother, he meets a woman from the past, and her baby, and the soldiers with rifles who are coming to take them away. The woman tells him about the hardness of her life, and demands a story from him, which will stop the soldiers, but the boy can't find one that will work. Following his desperate search for a story to save them, the play is a struggle of imagination and compassion, the crux of humanity.
The Inland Sea
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Author : Madeleine Watts
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2020-03-05
The Inland Sea written by Madeleine Watts and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with Fiction categories.
A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world As she faces the open wilderness of adulthood, our narrator finds that the world around her is coming undone. She works as an emergency dispatch operator, trapped in constant crisis as fires and floods rage across Australia. Her personal life is buckling under her self-destructive obsessions - she drinks heaily, sleeps with strangers, wanders the streets of Sydney at night, and pursues a disastrous affair with an ex-lover. Desperate and adrift, she yearns for change. Building to a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and personal crisis, The Inland Sea is a fierce and beautiful novel about the search for refuge in a state of emergency. Madeleine Watts grew up in Sydney, Australia and has lived in New York since 2013. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and her fiction has been published in The White Review and The Lifted Brow. Her essays have appeared in The Believer and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It, was awarded the 2015 Griffith Review Novella Prize. The Inland Sea is her first novel.