The Human Shore
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The Human Shore
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Author : John R. Gillis
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-11-17
The Human Shore written by John R. Gillis and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with History categories.
Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those who came before them, the natural environment, and the need to live sustainably on the world’s shores. Humanity has forgotten how to live with the oceans. In The Human Shore, a magisterial account of 100,000 years of seaside civilization, John R. Gillis recovers the coastal experience from its origins among the people who dwelled along the African shore to the bustle and glitz of today’s megacities and beach resorts. He takes readers from discussion of the possible coastal location of the Garden of Eden to the ancient communities that have existed along beaches, bays, and bayous since the beginning of human society to the crucial role played by coasts during the age of discovery and empire. An account of the mass movement of whole populations to the coasts in the last half-century brings the story of coastal life into the present. Along the way, Gillis addresses humankind’s changing relationship to the sea from an environmental perspective, laying out the history of the making and remaking of coastal landscapes—the creation of ports, the draining of wetlands, the introduction and extinction of marine animals, and the invention of the beach—while giving us a global understanding of our relationship to the water. Learned and deeply personal, The Human Shore is more than a history: it is the story of a space that has been central to the attitudes, plans, and existence of those who live and dream at land’s end.
The Human Shore
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Author : Harvena Richter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-05
The Human Shore written by Harvena Richter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05 with Fiction categories.
The riveting account of a woman and her three children caught in the vicious grip of a New England hurricane. The house that Nona believes she loves more than her husband is swept away—she survives clinging to a fragment of flooring, hurled by the waves across the bay.
The Human Shore
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Author : Russell Thornton
language : en
Publisher: Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub.
Release Date : 2006
The Human Shore written by Russell Thornton and has been published by Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Poetry categories.
The Human Shore is an accomplished collection of poems both grittily real and spiritual, the follow-up to Russell Thornton's critically acclaimed House Built of Rain. Whether describing a tidal wave, a train yard, or the ravaging effects of a wildfire, Thornton's work is arresting and masterful. The poet covers a wide variety of places and subjects, including a woman and her child in Thessaloniki, rats in a basement, a BC river "grind[ing] mountains down to tears" and catacombs in Lima, where "human corpses were bulldozed / tumbling over and under one another like adult rag dolls." Barry Dempster has called Thornton's poems "expansive, exquisitely detailed, eloquently transformative" and Patrick Lane deems them "impeccable in their craft." By turns elegant and shocking--and often both at once--The Human Shore, promises to leave an indelible mark on Canadian poetry.
The Shores Around Us
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Author : John Gillis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-11
The Shores Around Us written by John Gillis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-11 with categories.
The shore is the original home of humankind andhas been host to many of our species most spectacular accomplishments. Unfortunately, people today no longer know how to live with the shore, for current coastal engineering constitutes a threat not only to nature but humanity. It pits land against water and degrades the environment.This book of essays places shores in a long historical perspective, but also points the way to public policies friendly to both land and water. The essays in this volume are mostly new and constitute a supplement to my global history, The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History. They are inspired by the work of Rachel Carson, who was the first to alert us to the importance of shores in human evolution. The book aims to join natural and human history together by demonstrating how inseparable are humanity and the shores around us..
A Shorter Life
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Author : Alan Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-11-30
A Shorter Life written by Alan Jenkins and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
In his most eloquent and formally satisfying collection to date, Alan Jenkins plays a series of powerful and haunting variations on love and loss. The themes that run through our lives are relatively few, for all that they sound subtly different to each of us, with their own rich freight of places and faces. In poems that pay homage to what is unique to his own past experience - a suburban fifties upbringing, a heady youth of rebellion and exploration - Jenkins reminds us vividly of what is experienced by us all. The search for love (or failing that, sex), the passing of time and the inevitability of pain and grief, the struggle for transcendence against our awareness of limitation: these are the things that can suddenly seem to compose a life - a life not so much reduced to essentials as seen in its passionate essence, a 'shorter' life. Though not in any formal sense a sequel, this poignant book recapitulates some of the motifs of The Drift (2000) and earlier volumes, to offer an extended meditation on memory and recurrence, and a statement - compelling, candid, sorrowful and subtle - of life's beauty and brevity.
Works
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Works written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
From Dawn To Dusk
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Author : George Milner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
From Dawn To Dusk written by George Milner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.
The Merry Men And Other Tales And Fables
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Merry Men And Other Tales And Fables written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with English fiction categories.
Human Shores
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Author : Byron Beynon
language : en
Publisher: Lapwing Publications
Release Date : 2012
Human Shores written by Byron Beynon and has been published by Lapwing Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Poetry categories.
Infinity S Shore
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Author : David Brin
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2021-05-25
Infinity S Shore written by David Brin and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with Fiction categories.
A once peaceful planet of refugees faces complete annihilation in this hard science fiction sequel to Brightness Reef. Book Two in the Uplift Storm Trilogy It’s illegal to occupy the planet Jijo, but six castaway races have managed to coexist there for some time. They’ve successfully hidden from watchful law enforcers of the Five Galaxies—until now . . . After making an amazing discovery far away—a derelict armada whose mere existence triggered interstellar war—the Terran exploration vessel Streaker and its crew of humans and dolphins arrive at Jijo in search of sanctuary from the Galactic forces out to destroy them. But they were followed. As behemoth Galactic starships descend upon Jijo, heroic—and terrifying—choices must be made. Together, human and alien settlers must choose whether to fight the invaders or join them. The crew of the Streaker, meanwhile, discovers something that just might save Jijo and its inhabitants . . . or destroy every last one of them. “Well paced, immensely complex, highly literate . . . Superior SF.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An imaginative drama of excitement and wonder . . . The sheer virtuosity of the prose alone makes this book worth reading.” —SF Site