Islands At The Edge Of Time
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Islands At The Edge Of Time
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Author : Gunnar Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 1993-08-01
Islands At The Edge Of Time written by Gunnar Hansen and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-08-01 with Nature categories.
Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.
The Edge Of Time
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Author : Mike Middleton
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-01-29
The Edge Of Time written by Mike Middleton and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-29 with Fiction categories.
Kate and Luke who run a roadhouse in remote Central Australia are finding it hard to attract staff when a stranger turns up. Knowing little more than his name, and the fact that he is physically strong, they employ Thomas as a casual worker to help with cleaning, gardening and serving in the store. While Thomas does the work well, Kate finds him enigmatic. He is good with numbers, but poor with spelling. His knowledge is limited but he learns quickly. He seems nave but asks deep questions. On the other side of the world, in Saint Petersburg, Russian ex-cosmonaut and university lecturer Viktor Kamensky is challenged by Toby, one of his overseas students to break out of the reclusive life he had been living since the death of his wife and unborn child eight years earlier. With Tobys encouragement, he attends a reunion in Prague and agrees to speak at a summer conference in Hobart, Tasmania. Meanwhile, Kates daughter Ruth comes home on university vacation, meets Thomas and develops a friendship with him. She encourages him to spread his wings and share his ideas more widely. Thomas scans the Internet for conferences and finds an early photograph of Viktor Kamensky whose appearance is almost identical with his own. This catches him off guard and he tells Ruth that he is a clone of Viktor, grown on another planet, and on a mission to Earth. Ruth is distressed. Has she fallen in love with a man who is mentally ill? She devises a plan to prove to Thomas that his similarity to Viktor Kamensky is coincidental, and that he must learn to overcome his delusional tendencies. Ruth travels with Thomas to Hobart. They meet Viktor Kamensky and a critical set of challenges emerge, challenges that have the potential to change the way humans live their life on planet Earth.
Sailing To The Edge Of Time
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Author : John Kretschmer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Sailing To The Edge Of Time written by John Kretschmer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
John Kretschmer is sailing's practical philosopher – as much a doer as a thinker. And that is the overarching theme of this chronicle of a sailing life. Often amusing, sometimes poignant, occasionally terrifying but always inspiring, his deeply personal account is a welcome reminder of the good life waiting at sea. With hundreds of thousands of nautical miles under his keel, John's adventures have taken him several times around the world, with challenging crossings of the Atlantic and the Pacific, a narrow escape from a coup in Yemen, an unlikely deliverance from a coral reef off Belize as well as more serene, introspective passages where trade winds are blowing and stories are flowing. His crew has included CEOs, actors, writers, teachers, kids – in essence, everyone. John's narrative is interwoven with practical tips and advice in seamanship, but also, and just as importantly, his hard-won insights about making the most of our lives. He truly believes we find out who we really are, and what we are capable of, far from the shackles of land, when we find a place where time changes shape – days may merge into one another, but minutes are memorable. To live adventurously is to live more fully, and that is the life John Kretschmer continues to live. In this book he shares his simple profundities that will inspire those who live to sail, and those seeking something more rewarding from life.
Island On The Edge Of The World
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Author : Charles MacLean
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-05-01
Island On The Edge Of The World written by Charles MacLean and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-01 with History categories.
For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought with them money, disease and despotism. In 1930, the few remaining islanders were evacuated, no longer able to support themselves. An exploration of the life and death of the remote Hebridean society, Island on the Edge of the World is a moving account of human endeavour.
The Island On The Edge Of Forever
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Author : Andrew M. Crusoe
language : en
Publisher: Andrew M. Crusoe
Release Date : 2015-05-25
The Island On The Edge Of Forever written by Andrew M. Crusoe and has been published by Andrew M. Crusoe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-25 with Fiction categories.
Whether you're new to the series or a longtime fan, The Island on the Edge of Forever offers a gripping adventure and a fantastic entry point into the Epic of Aravinda: When Asha accepts a mission to recover a stone capable of raising the dead, she’s plunged into a world of ghostly inhabitants, cave-dwelling vermin, and an ancient secret hidden far below the planet's surface. Separated from Commander Mira, Asha discovers an island that comes alive with bonfires and dancing every night—only to vanish each dawn, leaving her isolated and questioning reality. Meanwhile, her new friend Zahn has taken a Confederation ship on a mission to a subterranean labyrinth, uncovering secrets about their great adversary, the Vakragha, who are racing to find the sacred stone first, bent on using it to revive their greatest military mastermind. As Asha’s plans unravel, she discovers Mira on the verge of death, and the full burden of the mission shifts to her. She must brave the relentless Zha vermin within the caves and outwit the Vakragha. With the fate of worlds hanging in the balance, Asha’s courage and ingenuity are her only hope. A thrilling, tropical sci-fi adventure inspired by Hawaii, The Island on the Edge of Forever is a fantastic entry-point into the beloved Epic of Aravinda series—one that will ignite your imagination and keep you turning pages late into the night.
The Edge Of Time
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Author : Robin Skelton
language : en
Publisher: Ronsdale/Cacanadadada
Release Date : 1995
The Edge Of Time written by Robin Skelton and has been published by Ronsdale/Cacanadadada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Poetry categories.
In celebration of his 70th birthday, Ronsdale Press is pleased to release Robin Skelton's The Edge of Time. In this new collection of poems, Skelton walks the edge, looking forwards and backwards. Meditating on roads taken and not taken, he employs his poetic gift to consider our relation to time: how we are both immersed in it, and yet able to step through to other dimensions. One of Canada's finest translators, Skelton also includes a series of translations of such international modernist masters as Rilke, Baudelaire, and Yuli Daniel.
The Edge Of Time
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Author : Em Vīrappa Moyili
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Edge Of Time written by Em Vīrappa Moyili and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
Examines a complex cultural practice of coastal Karnataka called Bhautaradhane, or the worship of hero-spirits.
The Island Edge Of America
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Author : Tom Coffman
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2003-02-28
The Island Edge Of America written by Tom Coffman and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-28 with History categories.
In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawaii. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawaii's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational forces that have shaped the Islands for more than a century, looking beyond the Hawaii carefully packaged for the tourist to the Hawaii of complex and conflicting identities--independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation--a wonderfully rich, diverse, and at times troubled place. With a sure grasp of political history and culture based on decades of firsthand archival research, Tom Coffman takes Hawaii's story into the twentieth century and in the process sheds new light on America's island edge.
The Edge Of Paradise
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Author : Paul Frederick Kluge
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The Edge Of Paradise written by Paul Frederick Kluge and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with History categories.
In 1967 the Peace Corps sent P. F. Kluge to paradise - or so the American possessions in Micronesia seemed. His assignment was as noble as it was adventurous: to help the people of those half-forgotten Pacific islands move from old to new, so that paradise would have prosperity and freedom as well as physical beauty. He immersed himself in the lives of the diverse peoples of the islands. He composed speeches for their leaders. He wrote a stirring manifesto that became the Preamble to the Constitution of Micronesia. He began a friendship with a man who would one day be president of Palau. And then, a generation later, P. F. Kluge went back. . . . The result is a book the New Yorker called "remarkably effective," the Economist deemed "terrific"; a book Smithsonian Magazine found to be "written from the heart." The Edge of Paradise shows the impact and ironies of America's presence in an undeveloped part of the world, how perhaps there's no way "a big place can touch a little one without harming it."
The Edge Of Memory
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Author : Patrick Nunn
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-08-23
The Edge Of Memory written by Patrick Nunn and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Social Science categories.
How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future? In today's society it is the written word that holds the authority. We are more likely to trust the words found in a history textbook over the version of history retold by a friend – after all, human memory is unreliable, and how can you be sure your friend hasn't embellished the facts? But before humans were writing down their knowledge, they were passing it on in the form of stories. The Edge of Memory celebrates the predecessor of written information – the spoken word, tales from our ancestors that have been passed down, transmitting knowledge from one generation to the next. Among the most extensive and best-analysed of these stories are from native Australian cultures. These stories conveyed both practical information and recorded history, describing a lost landscape, often featuring tales of flooding and submergence. Folk traditions such as these are increasingly supported by hard science. Geologists are starting to corroborate the tales through study of climatic data, sediments and land forms; the evidence was there in the stories, but until recently, nobody was listening. In this book, Patrick Nunn unravels the importance of these tales, exploring the science behind folk history from around the world – including northwest Europe and India – and what it can tell us about environmental phenomena, from coastal drowning to volcanic eruptions. These stories of real events were handed down the generations over thousands of years, and they have broad implications for our understanding of how human societies have developed through the millennia, and ultimately how we respond collectively to changes in climate, our surroundings and the environment we live in.