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Author : Thom Priemon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781387976249
An over the artist shoulder look at the creation of the encaustic painting "American Tropic".
Author : Thomas Sanchez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400076901
Key West is being terrorized by a series of bizarre murders committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin. With each new kill, it becomes clearer that the skeleton-clad executioner has an ecological agenda. Everyone dreads becoming the killer’s next victim: the rapacious developers, the ruthless scammers, and the common folk undertaking heroic acts to save their community. As the clock counts down to the end of hurricane season, the town will come together in a final dramatic explosion of fear, rage, and striking revelations. With canny perception, Thomas Sanchez illuminates a world of dark desires, hidden truths, and colliding destinies at America’s famous southernmost continental point.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Thomas Sanchez
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400042326
A string of murders being committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin on the exotic island city of Key West pits a crusading environmental shock-jock and a homicide detective against a maelstrom of unscrupulous developers, scammers and everyday citizens. 25,000 first printing.
Author : David A. Kaufelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671528831
In the tradition of John Jakes and James Michener comes David Kaufelt's sweeping saga of Florida--and the men and women who forged their extraordinary destinies upon it. Grand entertainment.
Author : James A. Kushlan
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065489
For centuries, the southernmost region of the Florida peninsula was seen by outsiders as wild and inaccessible, one of the last frontiers in the quest to understand and reveal the natural history of the continent. Seeking the American Tropics tells the stories of the explorers and adventurers who—for better and for worse—helped open the unique environment of South Florida to the world. Beginning with the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in 1513, James Kushlan describes how most of the famous Spanish explorers never made it to South Florida, leaving the area’s rich natural history out of scientific records for the next 250 years. It wasn’t until the British colonial and early American periods that the first surveyors were commissioned and the first naturalists—Titian Peale and John James Audubon—arrived to collect, draw, and report the subtropical flora and fauna that were so unique to North America. Moving into the railroad era, Kushlan illuminates the activities of scientists such as Henry Nehrling and Charles Torrey Simpson alongside the dabbling of wealthy amateur naturalists. He follows the story to the 1920s, when tourism was flourishing and signs of ecological damage were starting to show. Years of wildlife trade, resource extraction, invasive species introduction, and swamp drainage had taken their toll. And many of the naturalists who had been outspoken about protecting South Florida’s environment had also played a part in its destruction. Today the region is among one of the most thoroughly studied places on the planet—but at a cost. In this absorbing and cautionary tale, Kushlan illustrates how exploration has so often trumped conservation throughout history. He exposes how much of the natural world we have already lost in this vivid portrait of the Florida of yesterday.
Author : Philip P. Boucher
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801887260
Traditionally, the story of the Greater Caribbean has been dominated by the narrative of Iberian hegemony, British colonization, the plantation regime, and the Haitian Revolution of the 18th century. This text is a comprehensive account of colonization and French society in the Caribbean.
Author : Knight, Henry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813048413
Just after the Civil War, two states prominently laid claim to being America's paradise destinations. Private companies, state agencies, and journalists all lent a hand in creating a seductive, expansionist imagery that promoted semitropical California and Florida and helped "sell" Americans on the idea of an attainable paradise within the United States. In Tropic of Hopes, Henry Knight examines the promotion of California and Florida from the end of the Civil War to the eve of the Great Depression, a period when both states were transformed from remote, sparsely populated locales into two of the most publicized and dreamed-about destinations in America. Using the discussion of climate, geography, race, and environment to link agricultural, tourist, and urban development in these regions, Knight provides a highly original and informative account.
Author : David A. Kaufelt
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671528823
Escaping the tyranny of the Spanish Inquisition, two men and a beautiful woman journey to the New World where they unknowingly fulfill an ancient prophecy of the Taquestas, the native Indians of Florida
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007389469
Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years.
Author : Aldo Brando,Arturo Guerrero
Publisher : Villegas Asociados
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Colombia
ISBN : 9789589393314
Everything in this book invites us to marvel at the Colombian tropics. As the point of convergence of the tectonic plates, flora and fauna of three American continents, the world's two largest oceans and its most variegated mountains, it is a territory of excess. The restless lens of Aldo Brando focuses on this natural setting, furnishing us with a panoply of images that excite both the eye and the imagination. As he eminent Colombian writer German Arciniegas points out, this book is "a vertical exploration of a country which is the synthesis of the Americas." Novel and unique, it is a summary of fifteen years work by a photojournalist whose documentation of wild life goes beyond capturing the physical contours of the seas, islands, jungles, savannahs, mountains and inhabitants of Colombia. "It penetrates into the beauty and soul" of natural wonders, as one of the world's leading professionals in the field-- the American wildlife photographer Art Wolfe-- recognizes in his prologue. The book's five chapters are accompanied by an essay written by the Colombian journalist, Arturo Guerrero, who invites us to share in the astonishment and poetry found in nature and science. The dazzling photographs of this book evoke the magic of the tropical ecosystems of the new world, and draw near to the intimacy of nature. It also allows us to reflect upon mankind's contradictory relationship with the natural world. Professor Sir Ghillean Prance, director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, writes in his introduction: "It is my hope that this book helps to encourage the conservation of Colombian ecosystems, which are a valuable resource, not only for inhabitants of that nation but also for the world."The book concludes with a heartfelt message by the Colombian poet William Ospina. Aldo Brando. As a student of marine biology in the early 1980's, Brando became interested in wildlife photography and film-making, specializing in Colombia's tropical ecosystems. His work has appeared in such books as "Coral Reefs of the Caribbean," "Mangroves," "Paramos," "Colombia from the air," "For a Country Within the Reach of the Children," all published by Villegas Editores; "Malpelo, Oceanic Island of Colombia," published by Imprenta Mariscal/National Geographic. His photographs have also appeared in "Americas," "BBC Wildlife," "Earth," "Climbing," "Natural History," "Terre Sauvage," the" San Francisco Examiner," "Sinra and Wildlife Conservation," among other magazines. His collective exhibitions include the Smithsonian's international display on tropical rainforests, and "Forests Revisited: Expeditions at the End of the Millennium," held at the United Nations in New York.
Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300167313
"How Henry Miller, renegade and failed writer, came to understand what literary dynamite he had in him and, drawing on two centuries of New World history, folklore, and popular culture, sent his "war whoop" out over the roofs of the world"--
Author : United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015073321823
Author : Josephine Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000636376
This introduction to Asian American theatre charts ten of the most pivotal moments in the history of the Asian diaspora in the USA and how those moments have been reflected in theatre. Designed for weekly use on Asian American theatre courses, ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest contact between Japan and the West through the impact of the Vietnam War and the resurgent "yellow peril" hysteria of COVID-19. Each chapter emphasizes common questions of how racial identities and relationships are understood in everyday life as well as represented on the theatrical stage and in popular culture. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.
Author : Christian Parenti
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781568586625
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.