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On Celtic Tides

Author : Chris Duff
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781429973243

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A sea kayak battles the freezing Irish waters as the morning sun rises out of the countryside. On the western horizon is the pinnacle of Skellig Michael-700 feet of vertical rock rising out of exploding seas. Somewhere on the isolated island are sixth-century monastic ruins where the light of civilization was kept burning during the Dark Ages by early Christian Irish monks. Puffins surface a few yards from the boat, as hundreds of gannets wheel overhead on six foot wing spans. The ocean rises violently and tosses paddler and boat as if they were discarded flotsam. This is just one day of Chris Duff's incredible three month journey.

Celtic Tides

Author : Martin Melhuish
Publisher : Fox Music Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Celtic music
ISBN : 1894997328

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In cooperation with Corridor Films (Nashville) and Putamayo World Music (New York), Fox Music Books presents a new edition of this bestselling book + documentary + recording package, Celtic Tides. Celtic Tides tells the story of the ongoing world-wide renaissance of traditional Celtic music through extensive and exclusive interviews with the most influential artists. First published 15 years ago and out of print for a decade, Celtic Tides remains in demand. In this new edition, another 10 artists are profiled and the discography and guides to Celtic festivals, historic sites, museums and pubs throughout the Celtic diaspora are updated. Simultaneously, Putamayo World Music will be re-releasing the companion CD Celtic Tides, and Corridor will edit the documentary for a home entertainment DVD and downloadable file at the Fox Music/Quarry Press web site.

Tides

Author : Jonathan White
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781595348067

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In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture—the very old and very new. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion. Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and sixteen color photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the tides.

Flowing Tides

Author : Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190629168

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Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. For the first time, this remarkable soundscape is explored by an insider-a fourth generation Clare concertina player, uilleann piper and an internationally recognized authority on Irish traditional music. Entrusted with the testimonies, tune lore, and historic field recordings of Clare performers, Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin reveals why this ancient place is a site of musical pilgrimage and how it absorbed the impact of global cultural flows for centuries. These flows brought musical change inwards, while simultaneously facilitating outflows of musical change to the world beyond - in more recent times, through the music of Clare stars like Martin Hayes and the Kilfenora Céilí Band. Placing the testimony of music and music makers at the center of Irish cultural history and working from a palette of disciplines, Flowing Tides explores an Irish soundscape undergoing radical change in the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the Great Famine, from the birth of the nation state to the meteoric rise-and fall-of the Celtic Tiger. It is essential reading for all interested in Irish/Celtic music and culture.

Southern Exposure

Author : Chris Duff
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Kayak touring
ISBN : 0762725958

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Southern Exposure by Chris Duff Pdf

In this epic tale of sea-kayaking adventure, award-winning author Chris Duff places readers in the cockpit of his 18-foot kayak and lets them experience the full power and beauty of the South Pacific Ocean and the wild energy of the Tasman Sea as it thunders onto New Zealand's uninhabited west coast. Not just an account of human physical endurance and determination to attempt what had only been accomplished once before, this exquisitely written narrative reveals the philosophical and psychological life of a man who has chosen the sea as the master to sit before and to learn from. The intense and often terrifying sea journey is balanced by serendipitous meetings along the way with friendly New Zealanders and with the diverse wildlife of this tiny and remote island country. Southern Exposure is a force of writing that will captivate the armchair adventurer as well as the seasoned ocean traveler.

Waterford Harbour

Author : Andrew Doherty
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750995948

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Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit, it was there that Andrew Doherty was born and raised amongst a treasure chest of stories spun by the fishermen, sailors and their families. As an adult he began to research these accounts and, to his surprise, found many were based on fact. In this book, Doherty will take you on a fascinating journey along the harbour, introduce you to some of its most important sites and people, the area's history, and some of its most fantastic tales. Dreaded press gangs who raided whole communities for crew, the search for buried gold and a ship seized by pirates, the horror of a German bombing of the rural idyll during the Second World War – on every page of this incredible account you will learn something of the maritime community of Waterford Harbour.

Tides

Author : Betsy Cornwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547927725

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After moving to the Isles of Shoals for a marine biology internship, eighteen-year-old Noah learns of his grandmother's romance with a selkie woman, falls for the selkie's daughter, and must work with her to rescue her siblings from his mentor's cruel experiments.

To the Island of Tides

Author : Alistair Moffat
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781786896339

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To the Island of Tides by Alistair Moffat Pdf

In To the Island of Tides, Alistair Moffat travels to – and through the history of – the fated island of Lindisfarne. Known by the Romans as Insula Medicata and famous for its monastery, it even survived Viking raids. Today the isle maintains its position as a space for retreat and spiritual renewal. Walking from his home in the Borders, through the historical landscape of Scotland and northern England, Moffat takes us on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of saints and scholars, before arriving for a secular retreat on the Holy Isle. To the Island of Tides is a walk through history, a meditation on the power of place, but also a more personal journey; and a reflection on where life leads us.

Wired for Sound

Author : Martin Melhuish,Mark Hall
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electric guitar
ISBN : 1550822101

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Wired for Sound by Martin Melhuish,Mark Hall Pdf

"Wired for Sound features conversations with many of the greatest guitar players in rock, blues, and country history. Through these interviews, accompanied by exclusive pictures of the artists with their favorite guitars, we discover not only the unique relationship these musicians have with their instruments, but also gain insight into the history of the guitars that shaped the sound of contemporary music. Includes interviews with Chet Atkins, Randy Bachman, Kix Brooks, Billy Corgan, Charlie Daniels, John Entwhistle, Don Everly, Radney Foster, Don Felder, Peter Frampton, Emmylou Harris, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Dave Matthews, Les Paul, Tom Petty, Travis Tritt, Bob Weir, Hank Williams Jr., Steve Winwood, Ron Wood, and many more.

Fearless

Author : Joe Glickman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762783069

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Fearless by Joe Glickman Pdf

Like the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits—including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle alone and unsupported around Australia—a year-long adventure that virtually every expert guaranteed would get her killed. She planned not only to survive the 9,420-mile trip through huge, shark-infested seas, but to do it faster than the only other paddler who did it. As journalist and expert kayaker Joe Glickman details the voyage of this Teutonic force of nature, he captures interminable days on the water and nights camped out on deserted islands; hair-raising encounters with crocs and great white sharks; and the daring 300-mile open-ocean crossing that shaved three weeks off her trip. For 332 days Glickman followed Freya’s journey on her blog—along with a far-flung audience of awestruck, even lovesick, groupies—as she took on one terrifying ordeal after the next. In the end, he says, “her vanity and pigheadedness paled next to her nearly superhuman ability to master fear and persevere.”

The Pacific Alone

Author : Dave Shively
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493026821

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In the summer of 1987 Ed Gillet achieved what no person has accomplished before or since, a solo crossing from California to Hawaii by kayak. Gillet, at the age of 36 an accomplished sailor and paddler, navigated by sextant and always knew his position within a few miles. Still, Gillet underestimated the abuse his body would take from the relentless, pounding, swells of the Pacific, and early into his voyage he was covered with salt water sores and found that he could find no comfortable position for sitting or sleeping. Along the way he endured a broken rudder, among other calamities, but at last reached Maui on his 63rd day at sea, four days after his food had run out. Dave Shively brings Gillet’s remarkable story to life in this gripping narrative, based on exclusive access to Gillet’s logs as well as interviews with the legendary paddler himself.

Tides and Seasons

Author : David Adam
Publisher : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 028106332X

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In Tides and Seasons, David Adam draws from the rich store of Celtic Spirituality insights which speak to our own world today. The prayers he has written for this book echo the rhythms of creation which find their parallels in our spiritual lives. The movement of the tides - incoming, full flood, ebb tide, low tide - are linked to the cycle of the year, the seasons of life and the highs and lows of our own experience. Many strong currents are at work in our lives. Yet in the ebb and flow, nothing is lost, only changed. The sea of God's love is not diminished. Even in times of despair, we are made aware that there are other shores, eternal reaches, and that after the lowest ebb, the tide will flow again.

Celtic Tides

Author : Martin Melhuish
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Quarry Music Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:30000061562074

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During the past few years, a spring tide of Celtic culture and folklore has washed ashore, with Celtic dance, Celtic history and traditional Celtic music enjoying a renaissance throughout the world. Celtic musicians from Ireland, Scotland, and Canada - like The Chieftains, Enya, Clannad, Altan, Mairead Sullivan, Dougie MacLean, Capercaillie, Alisdair Fraser, Martyn Bennett, Ashley MacIsaac, Natalie MacMaster, The Rankins, The Barra MacNeils, Mary Jane Lamond, Leahy, and Loreena McKennitt, among many others - are enjoying an unprecedented surge in popularity. "Celtic Tides is the first book to tell the story of this Celtic invasion through profiles of the traditional music scene in the old world and the new. The book features extensive interviews with the most influential Celtic artists, the first comprehensive discography of Celtic music, a complete guide to international Celtic music festivals, and forty pages of photographs. For fans of contemporary music and popular culture, "Celtic Tides is indispensable.

Making Ireland Irish

Author : Eric G. E. Zuelow
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815632258

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From the dark shadow of civil war to the pastel-painted towns of today, Making Ireland Irish provides a sweeping account of the evolution of the Irish tourist industry over the twentieth century. Drawing on an extensive array of previously untapped or underused sources, Eric G. E. Zuelow examines how a small group of tourism advocates, inspired by tourist development movements in countries such as France and Spain, worked tirelessly to convince their Irish compatriots that tourism was the secret to Ireland’s success. Over time, tourism went from being a national joke to a national interest. Men and women from across Irish society joined in, eager to help shape their country and culture for visitors’ eyes. The result was Ireland as it is depicted today, a land of blue skies, smiling faces, pastel towns, natural beauty, ancient history, and timeless traditions. With lucid prose and vivid detail, Zuelow explains how careful planning transformed Irish towns and villages from grey and unattractive to bright and inviting; sanitized Irish history to avoid offending Ireland’s largest tourist market, the English; and supplanted traditional rural fairs revolving around muddy animals and featuring sexually suggestive ceremonies with new family-friendly festivals and events filling today’s tourist calendar. By challenging existing notions that the Irish tourist product is either timeless or the consequence of colonialism, Zuelow demonstrates that the development of tourist imagery and Irish national identity was not the result of a handful of elites or a postcolonial legacy, but rather the product of an extended discussion that ultimately involved a broad cross-section of society, both inside and outside Ireland. Tourism, he argues, played a vital role in “making Ireland Irish.”

London Tides

Author : Carla Laureano
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496426277

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Irish photojournalist Grace Brennan travels the world’s war zones documenting the helpless and forgotten. After the death of her friend and colleague, Grace is shaken. She returns to London hoping to rekindle the spark with the only man she ever loved—Scottish businessman Ian MacDonald. But he gave up his championship rowing career and dreams of Olympic gold years ago for Grace . . . only for her to choose photography over him. Will life’s tides bring them back together . . . or tear them apart for good this time?