Island S End

Author : Padma Venkatraman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101517628

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Island's End by Padma Venkatraman Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Climbing the Stairs comes a fascinating story set on a remote island untouched by time. Uido is ecstatic about becoming her tribe's spiritual leader, but her new position brings her older brother's jealousy and her best friend's mistrust. And looming above these troubles are the recent visits of strangers from the mainland who have little regard for nature or the spirits, and tempt the tribe members with gifts, making them curious about modern life. When Uido's little brother falls deathly ill, she must cross the ocean and seek their help. Having now seen so many new things, will Uido have the strength to believe in herself and the old ways? And will her people trust her to lead them to safety when a catastrophic tsunami threatens? Uido must overcome everyone's doubts, including her own, if she is to keep her people safe and preserve the spirituality that has defined them. Drawing on firsthand experience from her travels to the Andaman Islands, Padma Venkatraman was inspired to write this story after meeting natives who survived the 2004 tsunami and have been able to preserve their unique way of life. Uido's transformation from a young girl to tribal leader will touch both your heart and mind.

Author : Austin Aslan
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385374217

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The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan Pdf

In this fast-paced survival story set in Hawaii, electronics fail worldwide, the islands become completely isolated, and a strange starscape fills the sky. Leilani and her father embark on a nightmare odyssey from Oahu to their home on the Big Island. Leilani’s epilepsy holds a clue to the disaster, if only they can survive as the islands revert to earlier ways. A powerful story enriched by fascinating elements of Hawaiian ecology, culture, and warfare, this captivating and dramatic debut from Austin Aslan is the first of two novels. The author has a master’s degree in tropical conservation biology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Praise for Islands at the End of the World: “A riveting tale of belonging, family, overcoming perceived limitations, and finding a home.”--School Library Journal, Starred "Aslan’s debut honors Hawaii’s unique cultural strengths--family ties and love of home, amplified by geography and history--while remaining true to a genre that affirms the mysterious grandeur of the universe waiting to be discovered."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Aslan’s debut is a riveting tale of belonging, family, overcoming perceived limitations, and finding a home."--School Library Journal, Starred

Author : Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UOM:39015058588925

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Eastern Archipelago: Including the south-east end of Sumatra, Java, islands east of Java, south and east coasts of Borneo, and Célebes Island. 4th ed by Great Britain. Hydrographic Department Pdf

Author : Austin Aslan
Publisher : Ember
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385744034

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The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan Pdf

In this fast-paced survival story set in Hawaii, electronics fail worldwide, the islands become completely isolated, and a strange starscape fills the sky. Leilani and her father embark on a nightmare odyssey from Oahu to their home on the Big Island. Leilani’s epilepsy holds a clue to the disaster, if only they can survive as the islands revert to earlier ways. A powerful story enriched by fascinating elements of Hawaiian ecology, culture, and warfare, this captivating and dramatic debut from Austin Aslan is the first of two novels. The author has a master’s degree in tropical conservation biology from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Praise for Islands at the End of the World: “A riveting tale of belonging, family, overcoming perceived limitations, and finding a home.”--School Library Journal, Starred "Aslan’s debut honors Hawaii’s unique cultural strengths--family ties and love of home, amplified by geography and history--while remaining true to a genre that affirms the mysterious grandeur of the universe waiting to be discovered."--Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Aslan’s debut is a riveting tale of belonging, family, overcoming perceived limitations, and finding a home."--School Library Journal, Starred

Author : Laura Watts
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262038898

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Energy at the End of the World by Laura Watts Pdf

Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world. The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Surrounded by fierce seas and shrouded by clouds and mist, the islands seem to mark the edge of the known world. And yet they are a center for energy technology innovation, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel networks, attracting the interest of venture capitalists and local communities. In this book, Laura Watts tells a story of making energy futures at the edge of the world. Orkney, Watts tells us, has been making technology for six thousand years, from arrowheads and stone circles to wave and tide energy prototypes. Artifacts and traces of all the ages—Stone, Bronze, Iron, Viking, Silicon—are visible everywhere. The islanders turned to energy innovation when forced to contend with an energy infrastructure they had outgrown. Today, Orkney is home to the European Marine Energy Centre, established in 2003. There are about forty open-sea marine energy test facilities in the world, many of which draw on Orkney expertise. The islands generate more renewable energy than they use, are growing hydrogen fuel and electric car networks, and have hundreds of locally owned micro wind turbines and a decade-old smart grid. Mixing storytelling and ethnography, empiricism and lyricism, Watts tells an Orkney energy saga—an account of how the islands are creating their own low-carbon future in the face of the seemingly impossible. The Orkney Islands, Watts shows, are playing a long game, making energy futures for another six thousand years.

Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861894168

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Island at the End of the World by Steven Roger Fischer Pdf

On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically decreased around 1500, the Easter Islanders were forced to adapt in order to survive their isolation. Adaptation, Fischer asserts, was a continuous thread in the life of Easter Island: the first European visitors, who viewed the awe-inspiring monolithic busts in 1722, set off hundreds of years of violent warfare, trade, and disease—from the smallpox, wars, and Great Death that decimated the island to the late nineteenth-century Catholic missionaries who tried to "save" it to a despotic Frenchman who declared sole claim of the island and was soon killed by the remaining 111 islanders. The rituals, leaders, and religions of the Easter Islanders evolved with all of these events, and Fischer is just as attentive to the island's cultural developments as he is to its foreign invasions. Bringing his history into the modern era, Fischer examines the colonization and annexation of Easter Island by Chile, including the Rapanui people's push for civil rights in 1964 and 1965, by which they gained full citizenship and freedom of movement on the island. As travel to and interest in the island rapidly expand, Island at the End of the World is an essential history of this mysterious site.

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545630740

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Shipwreck (Island Trilogy, Book 1) by Gordon Korman Pdf

An action-packed survival suspense from bestselling and award-winning author Gordon Korman. Six kids. One shipwreck. One desert island.They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They were sent there as punishment, or as a character-building experience. Now the adults are gone, and the quest for survival has begun.

Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571290581

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Pdf

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 : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795324970

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Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke Pdf

In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: “A first-rate tour de force” (The New York Times). In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly benevolent: end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age . . . or so it seems. Without conflict, human culture and progress stagnate. As the years pass, it becomes clear that the Overlords have a hidden agenda for the evolution of the human race that may not be as benevolent as it seems. “Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Publisher : Chicken House
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781911077473

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The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Pdf

Ami lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home - but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443428583

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Island by Aldous Huxley Pdf

While shipwrecked on the island of Pala, Will Farnaby, a disenchanted journalist, discovers a utopian society that has flourished for the past 120 years. Although he at first disregards the possibility of an ideal society, as Farnaby spends time with the people of Pala his ideas about humanity change. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11788051

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List of Beacons, Bouys, and Day-marks in the First Light-House District, Embracing the Seacoasts, Bays, Harbors, and Rivers, from the Northeast Boundary of the United States to Hampton Harbor, New Hampshire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748124800

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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Pdf

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seem. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? And what really goes on in Ward C? The closer Teddy gets to the truth, the more elusive it becomes. And the more he begins to believe that he may never leave Shutter Island. Because someone is trying to drive him insane... Readers say: 'What a roller coaster ride. The book is just as good as the film' five star reader review 'A treat of a reveal and it's a great journey getting there' five star reader review 'Shutter Island held my attention from start to finish. Can't wait to read more of Lehane's work' five star reader review

Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : PRNC:32101058860360

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Handbook to the Mediterranean by John Murray (Firm) Pdf

Author : New Zealand. Department of Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UIUC:30112120082695

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New Zealand Official Yearbook by New Zealand. Department of Statistics Pdf