The Final Island
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Final Notes From A Great Island
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Author : Neil Humphreys
language : en
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Release Date : 2010-01-15
Final Notes From A Great Island written by Neil Humphreys and has been published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-15 with Humor categories.
Napoleon S Last Island
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Author : Thomas Keneally
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-05-19
Napoleon S Last Island written by Thomas Keneally and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Fiction categories.
On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty treatment by his captors, but he forges an unexpected ally: a rebellious British girl, Betsy, who lives on the island with her family and becomes his unlikely friend. Based on fact, Napoleon's Last Island is the surprising story of one of history's most enigmatic figures and a British family who dared to associate with him. It is a tale of vengeance, duplicity and loyalty, and of a man whose charisma made him dangerous to the end.
The Last Island
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Author : Goodheart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-01-17
The Last Island written by Goodheart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-17 with History categories.
A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery--the final holdout in a completely connected world In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed while attempting to visit an island he called "Satan's last stronghold," a small patch of land known as North Sentinel in the Andaman Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean. News of the tragedy fascinated people around the world. Most were unaware such a place still existed in our time: an island unmolested by the advances of modern technology, where the natives go naked and hunt with bows and arrows Twenty years before the American missionary's ill-fated visit, a young American historian and journalist named Adam Goodheart also traveled to the waters off North Sentinel. During his time in the Andaman Islands he witnessed another isolated tribe emerge into modernity for the first time Now, Goodheart--a bestselling historian--has returned to the Andamans. The Last Island is a work of history as well as travel, a journey in time as well as place. It tells the stories of others drawn to North Sentinel's mystery through the centuries, from imperial adventurers to an eccentric Victorian photographer to modern-day anthropologists. It narrates the tragic stories of other Andaman tribes' encounters with the outside world. And it shows how the web of modernity is drawing ever closer to the island's shores The Last Island is a beautifully written meditation on the end of the Age of Discovery at the start of a new millennium. It is a book that will fascinate any reader interested in the limits--and dangers--of our modern, global society and its emphasis on ceaseless, unbroken connection
The Final Island
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Author : Jaime Alazraki
language : en
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1978
The Final Island written by Jaime Alazraki and has been published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mysterious Island
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Author : H. Madison
language : en
Publisher: XinXii
Release Date : 2017-08-15
Mysterious Island written by H. Madison and has been published by XinXii this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Introducing The Final Chapter of a three book series. Glitter Girl and Water Girl had just become mission leaders. On a nice beautiful day in Hero World both the girls were just strolling down the streets when all of the sudden they are thrown into a secret island. While on the island they discover that their mission is to uncover the island secrets. Want to read more of H. Madison’s books? Don’t miss “X-Finney Strikes Again” and “The Most Dangerous Mission”.
Last Island
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Author : James M. Sothern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Last Island written by James M. Sothern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Last Island (La.) categories.
Understanding Julio Cort Zar
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Author : Peter Standish
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2001
Understanding Julio Cort Zar written by Peter Standish and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The work of the twentieth-century Argentine writer Cortazar is analyzed by Standish (foreign languages and literature, East Carolina U., Greenville), who writes with the assurance of his long familiarity with the author's work. Of the eight chapters, the first is devoted to Cortazar's life, the remainder to his writing, which is divided chronologically and by genre. Cortazar's own writing on literature and his controversial political identity each merit separate chapters. c. Book News Inc.
One Small Island
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Author : Alison Lester
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2019-08-06
One Small Island written by Alison Lester and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with Islands categories.
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Island
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Author : Aldous Huxley
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-07-15
Island written by Aldous Huxley and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-15 with Fiction categories.
In his prescient vision of the 21st century, Huxley explores Buddhist ideology, nuclear threat and ‘big oil’ corporate greed. For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with Eastern philosophy to create a paradise on Earth. When cynical journalist, Will Farnaby, arrives to research potential oil reserves on Pala, he quickly falls in love with the way of life on the island. Soon the need to complete his mission becomes an intolerable burden and he must make a difficult choice. In counterpoint to Brave New World and Ape and Essence, Island gives us Huxley's vision of utopia. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW
The Aesthetics Of Island Space
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Author : Johannes Riquet
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-18
The Aesthetics Of Island Space written by Johannes Riquet and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations of both canonical and less well-known works. The Aesthetics of Island Space discusses islands as central figures in the modern experience of space. It examines the spatial poetics of islands in literary texts, from Shakespeare's The Tempest to Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, in the journals of explorers and scientists such as James Cook and Charles Darwin, and in Hollywood cinema. It traces the ways in which literary and cinematic islands have functioned as malleable spatial figures that offer vivid perceptual experiences as well as a geopoetic oscillation between the material energies of words and images and the energies of the physical world. The chapters focus on America's island gateways (Roanoke and Ellis Island), visions of tropical islands (Tahiti and imagined South Sea islands), the islands of the US-Canadian border region in the Pacific Northwest, and the imaginative appeal of mutable islands. It argues that modern voyages of discovery posed considerable perceptual and cognitive challenges to the experience of space, and that these challenges were negotiated in complex and contradictory ways via poetic engagement with islands. Discussions of island narratives in postcolonial theory have broadened understanding of how islands have been imagined as geometrical abstractions, bounded spaces easily subjected to the colonial gaze. There is, however, a second story of islands in the Western imagination which runs parallel to this colonial story. In this alternative account, the modern experience of islands in the age of discovery went hand in hand with a disintegration of received models of understanding global space. Drawing on and rethinking (post-)phenomenological, geocritical, and geopoetic theories, The Aesthetics of Island Space argues that the modern experience of islands as mobile and shifting territories implied a dispersal, fragmentation, and diversification of spatial experience, and it explores how this disruption is registered and negotiated by both non-fictional and fictional responses.