Visions Of Tropical Islands
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Visions Of Tropical Islands
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Author : Nick Carroll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Visions Of Tropical Islands written by Nick Carroll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Islands categories.
This book takes the reader to some of the most stunning locations on Earth. Filled with colour, culture, action and texture, this is a book that will quicken the pulse of any surfer who's ever dreamt of finding that perfect island.
Visions Of Tropical Island Surf
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Author : Nick Carroll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Visions Of Tropical Island Surf written by Nick Carroll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Islands categories.
Next stop: Utopia. Our third edition takes a journey into the tropical surf zone - where coral reefs fringe impossibly exotic locales, where the sea is teeming with life, and where the most perfect and powerful waves on the planet are to be found. This book is guaranteed to fire up a severe case of wanderlust among its readers.
Tropical Visions In An Age Of Empire
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Author : Felix Driver
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-10-15
Tropical Visions In An Age Of Empire written by Felix Driver 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 2005-10-15 with History categories.
This volume of 11 illustrated essays from a wide range of disciplines explores images of the tropical world - paintings, maps, botanical drawings, diagrams, texts and photographs - produced by European and American travellers over the past three centuries.
Tropical Visions In An Age Of Empire
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Author : Felix Driver
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
Tropical Visions In An Age Of Empire written by Felix Driver 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 2010-11-15 with Science categories.
The contrast between the temperate and the tropical is one of the most enduring themes in the history of the Western geographical imagination. Caught between the demands of experience and representation, documentation and fantasy, travelers in the tropics have often treated tropical nature as a foil to the temperate, to all that is civilized, modest, and enlightened. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire explores images of the tropical world—maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts—produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities, this volume contains eleven beautifully illustrated essays—arranged in three sections devoted to voyages, mappings, and sites—that consider the ways that tropical places were encountered, experienced, and represented in visual form. Covering a wide range of tropical sites in the Pacific, South Asia, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the book will appeal to a broad readership: scholars of postcolonial studies, art history, literature, imperial history, history of science, geography, and anthropology.
Paradise Found
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Author : Norman Winter
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Release Date : 2001-08-21
Paradise Found written by Norman Winter and has been published by Taylor Trade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-21 with Gardening categories.
Loaded with plants that conjure visions of tropical islands and pina coladas, Paradise Found makes real every gardener's dream of living in a private Eden.
Islands
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Author : Steven Roger Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2013-02-15
Islands written by Steven Roger Fischer and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with History categories.
When Lost’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center of imagined worlds, secluded and sometimes mystical locales filled with strange creatures and savage populations. The cannibals, raptors, and smoke monsters that exist on the islands of popular culture aside, the more than one million islands and islets on the planet are indeed small , geological, biological, and cultural laboratories. From Britain to Japan, from the Galapagos to Manhattan, this book roams the planet to provide the first global introduction to these waterlocked landforms. Longtime island dweller Steven Roger Fischer shows that, since time began, islands have been one of the primary birthplaces for plants, animals, and proto-humans. These eyots of stone and sand—whether in ocean, lake, or river—fostered the human race, and Fischer recounts how humanity then exploited these remarkable habitats as stepping stones to global dominion. He explores island economics, warfare, and politics, and he examines the role they have played in literature, art and psychology. At the same time, he sparks our imagination with visions of islands—from Atlantis to Tahiti, Treasure Island to Hawaii. Ultimately, he reveals, these isolated mini-worlds are a measure of humankind itself. An engaging account of the islets that have enriched, lured, terrified, and inspired us, Islands shines new light on these cradles of earth—and human—history.
Visions For Faith
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Author : Meg Pier
language : en
Publisher: Margaret Pier
Release Date : 2009-11
Visions For Faith written by Meg Pier and has been published by Margaret Pier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11 with Photography categories.
“Visions for Faith," by Meg Pier, is a 109-page book featuring her photographs from locales around the globe, captioned by motivational and thought-provoking quotes from sages of the ages, ranging from Ovid to Oprah. The book aims to foster a connection with a higher power, as a source of inspiration, comfort, solace, and serenity. The photographs featured in the book span every ecosystem: tropical islands, deserts, jungles, fjords, plains, glaciers, volcanic mountains and coastlines. The pictures depict settings that convey the beauty of the world we live in, and universal aspects of the human condition. Those quoted represent a breadth of cultures and spiritual movements, and include insights from philosophers, political leaders, writers, comedians, musicians, poets, artists, and others, from the B.C. era to today.
Visions For Global Tourism Industry
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Author : Murat Kasimoglu
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2012-04-18
Visions For Global Tourism Industry written by Murat Kasimoglu and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-18 with Business & Economics categories.
We have been witnessing huge competition among the organisations in the business world. Companies, NGO's and governments are looking for innovative ways to compete in the global tourism market. In the classical literature of business the main purpose is to make a profit. However, if purpose only focus on the profit it will not to be easy for them to achieve. Nowadays, it is more important for organisations to discover how to create a strong strategy in order to be more competitive in the marketplace. Increasingly, organisations have been using innovative approaches to strengthen their position. Innovative working enables organisations to make their position much more competitive and being much more value-orientated in the global tourism industry. In this book, we are pleased to present many papers from all over the world that discuss the impact of tourism business strategies from innovative perspectives. This book also will help practitioners and academician to extend their vision in the light of scientific approaches.
Visions Of Caliban
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Author : Dale Peterson
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2000
Visions Of Caliban written by Dale Peterson and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Nature categories.
The authors use Shakespeare's Tempest as a metaphor for the relationship between people and chimps, exploring the very human aspects of this remarkable species. Original.
The Aesthetics Of Island Space
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Author : Johannes Riquet
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019-12-12
The Aesthetics Of Island Space written by Johannes Riquet and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book focuses on the challenges and uncertainties involved when island geography is translated into words and images, and it explores the complexities and contradictions of islands as figures of thought in Western modernity. Other studies have shown how islands have been imagined as bounded, easily controllable spaces and colonial territories; The Aesthetics of Island Space argues that they have been linked to disorientation and confusion as much asto spatial mastery and control. The book traces four lines in the vast sea of Anglo-American island stories, each of which has its beginning in one of modernity's voyages of discovery. The chapters focus onAmerica'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 geologically mutable islands. The book studies the journals of explorers and scientists alongside literary texts and films. It discusses a panorama of real and imagined journeys that take their narrators, protagonists, and readers to the limits of human perception andunderstanding, where borders are drawn and dissolved in a disorienting world between water and land.