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Author : Stephan R. Epstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521525071
Late medeival Sicily is shown to have been neither underdeveloped nor dependent on foreign trade.
Author : Nigel Patten
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951530624
By the end of the 18th century, Corsica had been occupied by France for over thirty years. Islanders yearned to recover their lost independence, and the French Revolution gave them the opportunity. Their leader, Pasquale Paoli, realized that alone they could never defeat the well-organized French forces. He offered Corsica to King George III of England, on condition that the French were driven from the island. Based on documented historical fact, the author paints a detailed portrait of Corsica through the captivating adventures of Damian Berra, a young man from what is today the Swiss canton of Valais. After wandering through Lombardy to the Ligurian coast, as the victim of a press gang on a French frigate, he becomes marooned on Corsica, an island infested with bandits and crippled with vendettas, where murders are seven times more numerous than in mainland France. The story also describes the attempts of the English to administer an island they eventually called “The Ungovernable Rock.”
Author : Tom Neale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Suvarrow Islands
ISBN : UOM:39015010771981
New Zealand shopkeeper describes his daily experiences over a five-year period while living alone on Suvarov, a tiny South Pacific atoll.
Author : John Donne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000054369993
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781590302538
This volume is a stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the richest, fullest and noblest life. --Chicago Tribune
Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395069622
Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Author : Celia Thaxter
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781429014298
Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) was born in Portsmouth, NH. When she was four, her father became the lighthouse keeper on White Island in the Isles of Shoals. After resigning his post eight years later, he built a resort hotel on Appledore Island in Maine. The first of its kind on the New England coast, the hotel became a gathering place for writers and artists during the latter half of the 19th century. In her last year of life, Celia published this work, in which she lovingly describes her Appledore garden and its flowers. The flowers she grew in her cutting garden filled her own rooms and those of the hotel, and this work became famous for its descriptions of the old-fashioned flowers she grew there. Her island garden, a plot that measured 15 feet square, has been re-created and is open to visitors.
Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571290581
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1934 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : MINN:31951D00467454P
Author : Elif Shafak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635578607
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.
Author : John Donne
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Death
ISBN : 0285628747
This meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.
Author : Samuel Myers,Howard Frumkin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610919661
Human health depends on the health of the planet. Earth’s natural systems—the air, the water, the biodiversity, the climate—are our life support systems. Yet climate change, biodiversity loss, scarcity of land and freshwater, pollution and other threats are degrading these systems. The emerging field of planetary health aims to understand how these changes threaten our health and how to protect ourselves and the rest of the biosphere. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves provides a readable introduction to this new paradigm. With an interdisciplinary approach, the book addresses a wide range of health impacts felt in the Anthropocene, including food and nutrition, infectious disease, non-communicable disease, dislocation and conflict, and mental health. It also presents strategies to combat environmental changes and its ill-effects, such as controlling toxic exposures, investing in clean energy, improving urban design, and more. Chapters are authored by widely recognized experts. The result is a comprehensive and optimistic overview of a growing field that is being adopted by researchers and universities around the world. Students of public health will gain a solid grounding in the new challenges their profession must confront, while those in the environmental sciences, agriculture, the design professions, and other fields will become familiar with the human consequences of planetary changes. Understanding how our changing environment affects our health is increasingly critical to a variety of disciplines and professions. Planetary Health is the definitive guide to this vital field.
Author : Sally Bushell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487450
This book explores the power of the map in fiction and its centrality to meaning, from Treasure Island to Winnie-the-Pooh.
Author : Royal Society of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Humanities
ISBN : UOM:39015038643766
Author : South Carolina. Supreme Court,J. S. G. Richardson,Robert Wallace Shand,Cyprian Melanchthon Efird,William Hay Townsend,Duncan C. Ray,William Munro Shand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112103368611
