Blue Plateau
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Blue Plateau
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Author : Mark Tredinnick
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Release Date : 2015-11-23
Blue Plateau written by Mark Tredinnick and has been published by Univ. of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'I came to the plateau in the winter of ninety-eight. A place a thousand metres in the air ... a world of sandstone and eucalypt and unregenerate weather, a place just fallen from the sky ...' The Blue Plateau is a lyrical natural history of the Blue Mountains, and a memoir of one man's attempt to belong there. An inspired meditation on the contours of the land and its people, of time and place and family, the rhythms of nature and the rhythms of friendship, it is a book of many belongings.Here you will meet the plateau's first people; you will meet Les and Henryk and Jim; you will walk the Kedumba and the Kanimbla in drought and fire and flood. Evocative and deeply moving, The Blue Plateau is a poet's story of an astonishing place and a loving portrait of home.
The Blue Plateau
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Author : Mark Tredinnick
language : en
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Release Date : 2011-12-28
The Blue Plateau written by Mark Tredinnick and has been published by Milkweed Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-28 with Nature categories.
The author of The Land’s Wild Music depicts Australia’s Blue Mountains through stories of the land and the lives within it. At the farthest extent of Australia’s Blue Mountains, on the threshold of the country’s arid interior, the Blue Plateau reveals the vagaries of a hanging climate: the droughts last longer, the seasons change less, and the wildfires burn hotter and more often. In The Blue Plateau, Mark Tredinnick tries to learn what it means to fall in love with a home that is falling away. A landscape memoir in the richest sense, Tredinnick’s story reveals as much about this contrary collection of canyons and ancient rivers, cow paddocks and wild eucalyptus forests as it does about the myriad generations who struggled to remain in the valley they loved. It captures the essence of a wilderness beyond subjugation, the spirit of a people just barely beyond defeat. Charting a lithology of indigenous presence, faltering settlers, failing ranches, floods, tragedy, and joy that the place constantly warps and erodes, The Blue Plateau reminds us that, though we may change the landscape around us, it works at us inexorably, with wind and water, heat and cold, altering who and what we are. The result is an intimate and illuminating portrayal of tenacity, love, grief, and belonging. In the tradition of James Galvin, William Least Heat-Moon, and Annie Dillard, Tredinnick plumbs the depths of people’s relationship to a world in transition. Praise for The Blue Plateau “One of the wisest, most gifted and ingenious writers you could hope to find.” —Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore’s Dilemma “I’ve never been to Australia, but now—after this book—it comes up in my dreams. The landscape in the language of this work is alive and conscious, and Tredinnick channels it in prose both wild and inspired. . . . Part nonfiction novel, part classic pastoral, part nature elegy, part natural history, the whole of The Blue Plateau conveys a deep sense, rooted in the very syntax of a lush prose about an austere land, that there can be no meaningful division between nature and culture, between humans and all the other life that interdepends with us, not in the backcountry of southeastern Australia, nor anywhere else.” —Orion “Absorbed slowly, as a pastoral landscape of loss and experiment in seeing and listening, the book richly rewards that patience.” —Publishers Weekly
Library Of Congress Subject Headings
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Author : Library of Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Library Of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Subject headings, Library of Congress categories.
The Virginias A Mining Industrial Scientific Journal Devoted To The Development Of Virginia And West Virginia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
The Virginias A Mining Industrial Scientific Journal Devoted To The Development Of Virginia And West Virginia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Geology categories.
History Of Geomorphology And Quaternary Geology
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Author : R. H. Grapes
language : en
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Release Date : 2008
History Of Geomorphology And Quaternary Geology written by R. H. Grapes and has been published by Geological Society of London this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Science categories.
These papers deal with various aspects of the histories of geomorphology and Quaternary geology in different parts of the world. They include: the origin of the term 'Quaternary', histories of ideas and debates relating to aspects of fluvial geomorphology, glacial geomorphology and glaciation, desert dunes and the geology of Australia, peneplains in China, a palaeo-Tokyo Bay in Japan, together with biographies of Charles Cotton, Valerija Čepulytė and Česlovas Pakuckas that highlight their respective contributions to the disciplines of geomorphology and Quaternary geology.
Miscellaneous Publication
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Miscellaneous Publication written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Agriculture categories.
The Virginias
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
The Virginias written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Natural resources categories.
General Technical Report Pnw Gtr
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
General Technical Report Pnw Gtr written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Forests and forestry categories.
The Wpa Guide To Virginia
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Author : Federal Writers' Project
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-31
The Wpa Guide To Virginia written by Federal Writers' Project and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with History categories.
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Virgina documents the vital role the Old Dominion played in the history of the first 150 years of the United States and before. It is packed with historical information, particularly from the Colonial and Revolutionary years, and supplemented with photos of historic buildings and sites. Also worth note are the artistic photographs of the state’s ordinary people and its natural beauty, including the Shenandoah and Chesapeake Bay regions.
Seeing Motion
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Author : Romana Karla Schuler
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-01-15
Seeing Motion written by Romana Karla Schuler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with Art categories.
Die avancierten Kunstschaffenden haben seit jeher innovativen Erfindungen aus dem Bereich der Naturwissenschaften zu den Themen Licht und Perspektive für ihre Darstellungen eingesetzt und dabei nachweislich sogenannte Sehapparate verwendet. Seit Anfang der zwanziger Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts setzten sich Künstler wie Marcel Duchamp mit Scheinbewegungen auseinander. Aufbauend auf diesen frühen Ideen und künstlerischen Experimenten kam besonders die Scheinkontur durch die Beschäftigung mit Scheinräumlichkeit zu neuem Interesse, vor allem vonseiten der Vertreter der kinetischen Kunst und der Op-Art. Seeing Motion gibt einen Überblick entlang einer historischen Linie, die sich zwischen den Theorien der experimentellen visuellen Wahrnehmungsforschung (Hermann Helmholtz, Ernst Mach, Sigmund Exner, Wilhelm Stern, Vittorio Benussi, Max Wertheim, George Stratton, Ivo Kohler) bis hin zur apparativen Kunst (Alfons Schilling) sowie zur elektronisch-digitalen Kunst (Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel) abzeichnet.