Coast Our Island Story

Author : Nicholas Crane
Publisher : Random House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409074557

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Coast: Our Island Story by Nicholas Crane Pdf

Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications. And the people who have lived, worked and played on this spectacular coast - from Stone Age fishermen to seafarers, chart-makers and surfers - have an incredible tale to tell. Coast: Our Island Story is an enthralling account, sparkling with geography, history, adventure and eccentric characters, told with Nick Crane's trademark charisma and wit.

Author : Nick Crane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409074560

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Coast Our Island Story by Nick Crane Pdf

Author : H.E. Marshall
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780297857280

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Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall Pdf

Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with vivid colour pictures - illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact - Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny - is as seductive now as it ever was. 'I was given H.E. Marshall's Our Island Story at Christmas 1936 and I've still got that copy. It was a direct inspiration for me in my career as a historian' Antonia Fraser 'It is written in a way that really captured my imagination and which nurtured my interest in the history of our great nation' David Cameron 'One of the most influential works of history of the 20th century' Times Educational Supplement

Author : Nicholas Crane
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780297865407

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Great British Journeys by Nicholas Crane Pdf

Intrepid presenter Nicholas Crane investigates eight epic journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers. Nick presents eight of the most interesting traveller-chroniclers to have explored and reported on the state of the nation. From Gerald of Wales who embarked on a seven week journey around the wild perimeter of Wales in March 1188, to HV Morton, the journalist and travel writer who crossed the length and breadth of England by car in the 1920s. Others include Celia Fiennes who started her many journeys around Britain on horseback in the late 1600s at the age of 20, Tudor antiquarian John Leland, Daniel Defoe, William Cobbett, Thomas Pennant, and William Gilpin, who travelled through the north of England by boat in 1770.

Author : Pat Carney
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771512114

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On Island by Pat Carney Pdf

A collection of stories chronicling the characters and dramas that capture life in small coastal communities. In this story collection, Pat Carney follows the rhythms of day-to-day life in coastal BC. Featuring a revolving cast of characters—the newly retired couple, the church warden, the musician, the small-town girl with big city dreams—Carney’s keen observations of the personalities and dramas of coastal life are instantly recognizable to readers who are familiar with life in a small community. With her narrative of dock fights, pet shows, family feuds, logging camps and the ever-present tension between islanders and property-owning “off-islanders,” Carney’s witty and perceptive voice describes how the islanders weather the storms of coastal life. Carney writes evocatively of the magical landscape of the British Columbia coast, where she has lived and worked for five decades. At the same time, she addresses the less-idyllic moments that can also characterize coastal life: power outages, winter storms, isolation. On Island brings the West Coast landscape—human and natural—to life, and gives islanders and mainland dwellers alike a taste of what it means to be “on island.”

Author : William Deverell
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773057118

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Stung by William Deverell Pdf

Award–winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller. Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur’s West Coast island home, where he finds himself arrested for fighting his own environmental cause: the threatened destruction of a popular park. The Toronto trial concludes with a tense, hang-by-the-fingernails jury verdict. Realistic and riveting, Stung is a propulsive legal thriller by a beloved author at the height of his powers.

Author : Patrick Barkham
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847088987

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Coastlines by Patrick Barkham Pdf

Told through a series of walks beside the sea, this is a story of the most beautiful 742 miles of coastline in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: their rocks, plants and animals, their views, walks and history, and the people who have made their lives within sight of the waves. As he travels along coastal paths, visits beaches and explores coves, Barkham reflects on the long campaign to protect our shoreline from tidal erosion and human damage and weaves together fascinating tales about every aspect of the coast - from ancient conquests and smuggler's routes, to exotic migratory birds and bucket-and-spade holidays - to tell a more profound story about our island nation and the way we are shaped by our shores.

Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : BBC Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 0563522798

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Coast by Christopher Somerville Pdf

In Coast, natural history journalist Christopher Somerville takes you on a grand tour of the outer limits of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Beautiful photography, clear maps, and evocative essays all illuminate the majesty and variety to be found where Britain meets the sea. This is, after all, the longest coastline in Europe. From the dramatic cliffs of Eastbourne's Beachy Head to the spare beauty of the Norfolk salt marshes; from the storm-wracked Cape Wrath at the edge of the Scottish Highlands to the peaceful wooded creeks of Cornwall's Helford river--whatever kind of coastal area you're drawn to, you'll find it here. For those who want to see it firsthand, Coast also features a detailed gazetteer--a region-by-region reference of places, people, activities, natural history, and historic events.

Author : Howard White
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1550179241

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Here on the Coast by Howard White Pdf

Howard White offers humour-laced sketches of small-town life on the BC Coast.

Author : Steve Evanson
Publisher : BBC Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Coasts
ISBN : 1846077796

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Coast and Beyond by Steve Evanson Pdf

Travel and holiday.

Author : H. E. Marshall
Publisher : Smk Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1604598492

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Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall Pdf

History of England up to Queen Victoria's death, including a bit of myth as well as a few legends.

Author : Dominique Fortier
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770564718

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The Island of Books by Dominique Fortier Pdf

A fifteenth-century portrait painter, grieving the untimely death of his unrequited love, takes refuge at the monastery at Mont Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of France. He haunts the halls until the monks assign him the task of copying manuscripts – though he is illiterate. His work heals him and grows the monastery's library into a beautiful city of books, all under the shadow of the invention of the printing press. Dominique Fortier is an editor and translator living in Montreal. She is the author of five books, including On the Proper Use of Stars and Wonder. Rhonda Mullins is an award-winning translator and writer living in Montreal, Quebec.

Author : M. Wylie Blanchet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786258342

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The Curve Of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet Pdf

“Time did not exist; or if it did it did not mater. Our world then was both wide and narrow—wide in the immensity of the sea and mountain; narrow in that the boat was very small, and we lived and camped, explored and swam in a little realm of our own making...” This is the fascinating true adventure story of a woman who packed her five children onto a twenty-five-foot boat and explored the coastal waters of British Columbia summer after summer in the 1920s and 1930s. Acting single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and of course, mother, Muriel Wylie Blanchet saw her crew through exciting—and sometimes perilous—encounters with fog; rough seas, cougars, bears and whales, and did so with high spirits and courage. On these pages an independent woman with a deep respect for the native cultures of a region, and a refreshing wonderment about the natural world, comes to life. In The Curve of Time, she has left us with a sensitive and lyrically written account of their journeys and a timeless travel memoir not to be missed.

Author : Mary Fox
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1550179381

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My Life As a Potter by Mary Fox Pdf

Acclaimed potter Mary Fox, known for creating stunning gravity-defying decorative vessels as well as contemporary functional ware, tells the story of her life as an artist.

Author : Celestine Aleck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771741287

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Taking Care of Our Mother Earth by Celestine Aleck Pdf