Notes From The Shore

Author : Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780525505921

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Birds by the Shore by Jennifer Ackerman Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, the revised and reissued edition of her beloved book of essays describing her forays along the Delaware shore For three years, Jennifer Ackerman lived in the small coastal town of Lewes, Delaware, in the sort of blue-water, white-sand landscape that draws summer crowds up and down the eastern seaboard. Birds by the Shore is a book about discovering the natural life at the ocean's edge: the habits of shorebirds and seabirds, the movement of sand and water, the wealth of creatures that survive amid storm and surf. Against this landscape's rhythms, Ackerman revisits her own history--her mother's death, her father's illness and her hopes to have children of her own. This portrait of life at the ocean's edge will be relished by anyone who has walked a beach at sunset, or watched a hawk hover over a winter marsh, and felt part of the natural world. With a quiet passion and friendly, generous intelligence, it explores the way that landscape shapes our thoughts and perceptions and shows that home ground is often where we feel the deepest response to the planet.

Author : Jennifer Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140177884

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Notes from the Shore by Jennifer Ackerman Pdf

Ackerman delivers a book about discovering natural life at the ocean's edge--Cape Henlopen, at the southern lip of the Delaware Bay across from Cape May, New Jersey--and the habits of shorebirds and seabirds, the movement of sand and water, the wealth of creatures that survive amid storm and surf. It weaves together science and description with personal observation and reflection, exploring the way that landscape shapes our thoughts and perceptions.

Author : James Lloyd Homer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Fishing
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011416856

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Notes on the Sea-shore, Or, Random Sketches by James Lloyd Homer Pdf

Author : Alex Roddie
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781839810213

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The Farthest Shore by Alex Roddie Pdf

In February 2019, award-winning writer Alex Roddie left his online life behind when he set out to walk 300 miles through the Scottish Highlands, seeking solitude and answers. In leaving the chaos of the internet behind for a month, he hoped to learn how it was truly affecting him – or if he should look elsewhere for the causes of his anxiety. The Farthest Shore is the story of Alex's solo trek along the remote Cape Wrath Trail. As he journeyed through a vanishing winter, Alex found answers to his questions, learnt the nature of true silence, and discovered frightening evidence of the threats faced by Scotland's wild mountain landscape.

Author : John R. Gillis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226324296

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The Human Shore by John R. Gillis Pdf

Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those who came before them, the natural environment, and the need to live sustainably on the world’s shores. Humanity has forgotten how to live with the oceans. In The Human Shore, a magisterial account of 100,000 years of seaside civilization, John R. Gillis recovers the coastal experience from its origins among the people who dwelled along the African shore to the bustle and glitz of today’s megacities and beach resorts. He takes readers from discussion of the possible coastal location of the Garden of Eden to the ancient communities that have existed along beaches, bays, and bayous since the beginning of human society to the crucial role played by coasts during the age of discovery and empire. An account of the mass movement of whole populations to the coasts in the last half-century brings the story of coastal life into the present. Along the way, Gillis addresses humankind’s changing relationship to the sea from an environmental perspective, laying out the history of the making and remaking of coastal landscapes—the creation of ports, the draining of wetlands, the introduction and extinction of marine animals, and the invention of the beach—while giving us a global understanding of our relationship to the water. Learned and deeply personal, The Human Shore is more than a history: it is the story of a space that has been central to the attitudes, plans, and existence of those who live and dream at land’s end.

Author : Katie Runde
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982180188

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The Shore by Katie Runde Pdf

A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of secrets in this “deeply felt family saga” (Entertainment Weekly) hailed as “one of the best beach reads of all time” (Today). Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling boardwalk, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, making their living by quickly turning over rental houses for tourists. But the family’s future becomes precarious when Brian develops a brain tumor, transforming into an erratic version of himself. Amidst the chaos and new caretaking responsibilities, Liz still seeks out summer adventure and flirting with a guy she should know better than to pursue. Her younger sister Evy works in a candy shop, falls in love with her friend Olivia, and secretly adopts the persona of a middle-aged mom in an online support group, where she discovers her own mother’s vulnerable confessions. Meanwhile, Margot faces an impossible choice driven by grief, impulse, and the ways that small-town life has shaped her. Falling apart is not an option, but she can always pack up and leave the beach behind. “An emotional family drama...with endearing characters and deep insights” (Glamour), The Shore is a heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting novel infused with humor about finding sisterhood, friendship, and love in a time of crisis. This big-hearted novel examines the grit and hustle of running a small business in a tourist town, the ways we connect with strangers when our families can’t give us everything we need, and the comfort found in embracing the pleasures of youth while coping with unimaginable loss.

Author : Jenny Colgan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062850195

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The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan Pdf

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting football fans keep them awake all night. Hari’s dad, Jaz, a charismatic but perpetually broke DJ, is no help at all. But his sister Surinder comes to Zoe’s aid, hooking her up with a job as far away from the urban crush as possible: a bookshop on the banks of Loch Ness. And there’s a second job to cover housing: Zoe will be an au pair for three children at a genuine castle in the Scottish Highlands. But while Scotland is everything Zoe dreamed of—clear skies, brisk fresh air, blessed quiet—everything else is a bit of a mess. The Urquart family castle is grand, but crumbling, the childrens’ single dad is a wreck, and the kids have been kicked out of school and left to their own devices. Zoe has her work cut out for her, and is determined to rise to the challenge, especially when she sees how happily Hari has taken to their new home. With the help of Nina, the friendly local bookseller, Zoe begins to put down roots in the community. Are books, fresh air, and kindness enough to heal this broken family—and her own…?

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Birds
ISBN : UIUC:30112106908749

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Life Histories of North American Shore Birds by Arthur Cleveland Bent Pdf

Includes material on phalaropes, snipes, woodcocks, sandpipers, godwits, willets, oyster catchers, tattlers, plovers, curlews, and others.

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Birds
ISBN : MINN:31951000115760T

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Life Histories of North American [birds].: Shore birds by Arthur Cleveland Bent Pdf

Author : Kevin Major
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554980604

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Far From Shore by Kevin Major Pdf

Faced with instability on many sides, and living in an outport community in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old Chris gropes for direction in a family broken apart by unemployment. Even his easy-going, humorous attitude fails to steady him as he stumbles through the summer after grade ten. He's failed his year, he can't find a summer job, and he's incredibly bored. So the first thing he heads for is trouble -- trouble that ends in a confrontation with the law. Work as a counselor at a summer camp offers the challenge of a fresh start, but it is here, amid new responsibilities, that he encounters his toughest test as a young man. Winner of the first Canadian Young Adult Book Award and named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal, Far from Shore was hailed as a unique and innovative novel when it was first published. As he has done throughout his career, Kevin Major broke new ground by tackling a multinarrative structure in a young adult novel -- an approach much imitated since but never more convincingly.

Author : Wenonah Doret
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439196823

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Gym, Tanning, Laundry by Wenonah Doret Pdf

Presents quotations from the reality television show "Jersey Shore," organized by characters and activities.

Author : Charles Sutton (of Nottingham.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590955164

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A statement of facts ... in reply to mr. [T.] Shore's 'Portrait'. by Charles Sutton (of Nottingham.) Pdf

Author : John Hirst
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921866326

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Freedom on the Fatal Shore by John Hirst Pdf

Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author. Convicts with their "own time", convicts with legal rights, convicts making money, convicts getting drunk - what sort of prison was this? Hirst describes how the convict colony actually worked and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. He writes: "This was not a society that had to become free; its freedoms were well established from the earliest times." “Colonial Australia was a more ‘normal’ place than one might imagine from the folkloric picture of society governed by the lash and the triangle, composed of groaning white slaves tyrannised by ruthless masters. The book that best conveys this and has rightly become a landmark in recent studies of the System is J.B. Hirst’s Convict Society and Its Enemies.” —Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore “Anyone with an interest in Australian political culture will find The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy invaluable.” —Professor Colin Hughes, former Electoral Commissioner for the Commonwealth

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030992267

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Lake Ontario South Shore, Ft.Niagara State Park Beach Restoration, Improvement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Shore
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0714859044

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The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore Pdf

The Nature of Photographs is an essential primer of how to look at and understand photographs, by one of the world's most influential photographers, Stephen Shore. In this book, Shore explores ways of understanding photographs from all periods and all types - from iconic images to found photographs, from negatives to digital files. This books serves as an indispensable tool for students, teachers and everyone who wants to take better pictures or learn to look at them in a more informed way.