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This Luminous Coast
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Author : Jules Pretty
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-02
This Luminous Coast written by Jules Pretty and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Travel categories.
Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks. East Anglia's coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region's cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world.
This Luminous Coast
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Author : Jules N. Pretty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
This Luminous Coast written by Jules N. Pretty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Coast changes categories.
'This Luminous Coast' is a social and ecological portrait of one of the richest yet least-known regions of Britain. Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked the coasts of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, completing 400 miles on foot and travelling a further 100 miles in a variety of boats. This is a coast about to be lost.
The Luminous Coast
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Author : Jules N. Pretty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Luminous Coast written by Jules N. Pretty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Coast changes categories.
This Luminous Coast
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Author : Jules Pretty
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-04
This Luminous Coast written by Jules Pretty and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-04 with Travel categories.
Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks. East Anglia’s coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region’s cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world.
Sea Sagas Of The North
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Author : Jules Pretty
language : en
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Release Date : 2022-10-25
Sea Sagas Of The North written by Jules Pretty and has been published by Hawthorn Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-25 with Fiction categories.
The book’s stories and sagas cover three central themes : living with environmental change around the North Sea and the Atlantic; story-telling through history in these lands; reconnecting with nature and our ancient heritages so as to live well and responsibly.
Place Writing And Voice In Oral History
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Author : S. Trower
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-07
Place Writing And Voice In Oral History written by S. Trower and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-07 with History categories.
This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today, including global environmental concerns.
Wrightsville Beach
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Author : Ray McAllister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-02
Wrightsville Beach written by Ray McAllister and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with categories.
Soon after crossing the drawbridge from the mainland, you'll reach a fork in the road. Bearing left will take you to the famous Johnnie Mercer's Fishing Pier and near the site where a giant sperm whale named Trouble once washed ashore and refused to leave. Bearing right will take you to the classic downtown and points south, including the Coast Guard station and the site of the late, great Lumina Pavillion. "Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island" is Ray McAllister's homage to a special place, a book that captures not only Wrightsville's history but its heart. Along the way, he shares stories of fire and and hurricanes and beach trolleys and Big Bands. Through all the changes, Wrightsville has never forgotten the hospitality that made it such a destination in the first place. Just ask the airplane full of Pennsylvanians who fled here to escape one of America's first man-made disasters. Or the thousands who continue to come for happier reasons today.The award-winning "Wrightsville Beach" has been a continuous seller since its 2007 publication by John F. Blair, Publisher. The 2nd Edition, distributed by Beach Glass Books for the book's 10th anniversary, is 35 percent larger, with double the number of illustrations, further enhancing it as a keepsake or gift. Included is a new foreword by Washington StarNews Book Columnist Ben Steelman and an afterword by the author detailing changes and challenges facing Wrightsville Beach. In addition to this paperback, a signed hardcover edition continues to be available.
Walking In Essex
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Author : Peter Aylmer
language : en
Publisher: Cicerone Press
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Walking In Essex written by Peter Aylmer and has been published by Cicerone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This guidebook describes 25 coastal and inland day walks covering the whole of the county of Essex, stretching from the Lea Valley in the west and the Thames in the south over to the North Sea and up to the River Stour in the north. Walks range from 4 to 18 miles and are mostly circular. Also included is a description of the Essex Way which crosses the county in 11 stages from Manor Park, on the fringes of London, to the port of Harwich - a distance of 96 miles. The walks are suitable for all abilities and there are shorter alternatives for many of the longer routes. With a huge variety of scenery and walking landscapes, Essex surprises and delights in equal measure. It boasts a 350-mile coastline (which, away from the busy seaside resorts, is barely known), numerous estuaries and river valleys, great and ancient forests, and more green lanes than any other English county except Dorset. Each walk is described step-by-step, illustrated with OS map extracts and packed with historical, and geological information about the landscape the route passes through.
The Shifting Sands Of The North Sea Lowlands
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Author : Katie Ritson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-26
The Shifting Sands Of The North Sea Lowlands written by Katie Ritson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with History categories.
Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of the Anthropocene are being played out. This book shows how the fragile landscapes around the North Sea have served as bellwethers for environmental concern both now and in the recent past. It looks at literary sources drawn from the countries around the North Sea (Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and England) from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, taking them out of their established national and cultural contexts and reframing them in the light of human concern with fast-changing and hazardous environments. The six chapters serve as literary case studies that highlight memories of flood disaster and recovery, attempts to engineer the landscape into submission, perceptions of the landscape as both local and global, and the imagination of the future of our planet. This approach, which combines environmental history and ecocriticism, shows the importance of cultural artefacts in understandings of, and responses to, environmental change, and advocates for the importance of literary studies in the environmental humanities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the Environmental Humanities, including Eco-criticism and Environmental History, as well as anyone studying literature from the Germanic philologies.
Scientific American
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Scientific American written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Science categories.