Phantom Islands

Author : Dirk Liesemer
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912208333

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Phantom Islands by Dirk Liesemer Pdf

From the famed Atlantis to the remote Rupes Nigra, islands have long held our fascination: they are locales isolated from ordinary life, lurking in unexplored corners of the globe and thus full of undisclosed mysteries. At times, however, our fascination with islands has bled into reality, as real maps bear the coordinates of fictional lands and travelogues tell tall tales of their inhabitants, their natural wonders, or their treasures. In Phantom Islands, Dirk Liesemer tells the stories of thirty of these fantastical islands. Beginning with their supposed discovery, he recreates their fabled landscapes, the voyages that attempted to verify their existence, and, ultimately, the moment when their existence was finally disproven. Spanning oceans and centuries, these curious tales are a chronicle of human lust for discovery and wealth. Beautifully illustrated with colored maps and charts, Phantom Islands shows the cunning of imposters and frauds, the earnestness of explorers searching for knowledge, and the pleasure that can be found in our willingness to deceive and to be deceived.

Author : Donald S. Johnson
Publisher : Quill
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Atlantic Ocean
ISBN : 0380730782

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Phantom Islands of the Atlantic by Donald S. Johnson Pdf

In the tradition of Longitude comes a collection of fascinating stories about seven islands that were charted by Age of Discovery mapmakers--but which never actually existed. Sailor and author Donald Johnson reveals each island's dark origins and mysterious cartographic life through an intricate exploration of history and legend. Maps & engravings.

Author : Hereward Carrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258193558

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Islands of Mystery by Hereward Carrington Pdf

Author : Justin Armstrong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000824100

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Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene by Justin Armstrong Pdf

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary. Utilizing carefully considered anthropological perspectives drawn from over a decade of anthropological fieldwork, the author employs islands as a complex set of lenses to examine the ways that we are intimately connected, separated, and divided from ourselves, one another, and the planet. Moving across time, place and disciplinary boundaries, this book traces a narrative route from the remote islands of Micronesia to the subarctic expanses of northern Iceland, all in service of gaining a deeper understanding of the cultural resonance of islands. This book offers the reader a type of ideological travel guide, one that exchanges restaurant reviews and hotel recommendations for pathways of reflection and new modes of seeing and being in the world. It will be of interest to scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and readers from human geography, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and American studies.

Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452168449

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The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-Hitching Pdf

Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meet This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true. Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies. Where exploration and mythology meet: Author Edward Brooke-Hitching is a map collector, author, writer for the popular BBC Television program QI and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London investigating the places where exploration and mythology meet. Cartography’s greatest phantoms: The Phantom Atlas uses gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms. If you are a fan of this popular genre and a reader of books such as Prisoners of Geography, Atlas of Ancient Rome, Atlas Obscura, What If, Book of General Ignorance, or Thing Explainer, your will love The Phantom Atlas

Author : Johannes Riquet,Elizabeth Kollmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351396868

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Spatial Modernities by Johannes Riquet,Elizabeth Kollmann Pdf

This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity’s spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today’s world of ever increasing mobility and global networks. The book offers a broad perspective on the narrative and poetic dimensions of the modern discourses and imaginaries that have shaped our current geographical sensibilities. In the early twenty-first century, we are still grappling with the spatial effects of ‘early’ and ‘high’ modern developments, and the contemporary crises revolving around political boundaries and geopolitical orders in many parts of the world have intensified spatial anxieties. They call for a sustained analysis of individual perceptions, cultural constructions and political implications of spatial processes, movements and relations. The contributors of this book focus both on the spatial orders of modernity and on the various dynamic processes that have shaped our engagement with modern space.

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1836 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547730965

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Men Against the Sea – Book Set by James Norman Hall Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this unique sea adventures collection with novels about mutinies, shipwrecks, travels, and tales of the South Seas. Table of Contents: The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairn's Island Other Sea Adventures: The Hurricane The Dark River Botany Bay Lost Island The High Barbaree The Far Lands Faery Lands of the South Seas The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas: The Forgotten One Captain Handy's Memoirs Sing: A Song of Sixpence A Happy Hedonist Rivnac Frisbie of Danger Island James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547730958

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James Norman Hall - Ultimate Collection by James Norman Hall Pdf

DigiCat presents to you the greatest historical novels, sea stories and war tales of James Norman Hall: Table of Contents: The Bounty Trilogy: Mutiny on the Bounty Men Against the Sea Pitcairn's Island Other Novels: High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France The Hurricane The Dark River Botany Bay Men Without a Country Lost Island The High Barbaree The Far Lands Other Writings: Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in the British Army (1l) Faery Lands of the South Seas (1m) The Forgotten One and Other True Tales of the South Seas (1n) The Forgotten One Captain Handy's Memoirs Sing: A Song of Sixpence A Happy Hedonist Rivnac Frisbie of Danger Island Mid-Pacific James Norman Hall (1887-1951) was an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with Charles Nordhoff. During World War I, Hall had the distinction of serving in the militaries of three Western allies: Great Britain as an infantryman, and then France and the United States as an aviator. After the war, Hall spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Nordhoff wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.

Author : Henry Stommel
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486821245

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Lost Islands by Henry Stommel Pdf

An expert oceanographer presents fascinating documentation of the historical, geographical, and anecdotal accounts of hundreds of phantom islands around the world. Scores of black-and-white illustrations and charts illuminate the text.

Author : Ian Kinane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783488087

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Theorising Literary Islands by Ian Kinane Pdf

Theorising Literary Islands is an epistemological study of the development of the Robinsonade genre, its ideological functions within contemporary Anglophone cultural thought, and the role of literary and filmic mediation in constructing twentieth and twenty-first century European and American relations with and to the Pacific region.

Author : Alex Ritsema
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781446189689

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The Selvagens, Forgotten Atlantic Islands by Alex Ritsema Pdf

Between the Canary and Madeira Islands, we find the tiny, barren and uninhabited Selvagens. Far from the tourist crowds, these volcanic outcrops house fantastic seabird colonies and unique species of flora and fauna. The Selvagens were colonized by Portugal in 1438. Being virtually destitute of water, they have only had temporary inhabitants like fishermen, bird hunters and scientists. Many stories have been told about buried pirate treasures; we do not know whether those treasures ever existed but this book reveals some spectacular stories of genuine treasure hunts. Born in 1963, the author is a non-fiction author about islands and maritime history. His website is www.aworldofislands.com.

Author : Francois J. Bonnet
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781916405226

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The Order of Sounds by Francois J. Bonnet Pdf

This study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a “sonorous archipelago”—a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse. Profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant spaces, both an “organ of fear” and an echo chamber of anticipated pleasures, an uncontrollable flow subject to unconscious selection and augmentation, the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing has meant that sound has rarely received the same philosophical attention as the visual. In The Order of Sounds, François J. Bonnet makes a compelling case for the irreducible heterogeneity of “sound,” navigating between the physical models constructed by psychophysics and refined through recording technologies, and the synthetic production of what is heard. From primitive vigilance and sonic mythologies to digital sampling and sound installations, he examines the ways in which we make sound speak to us, in an analysis of listening as a plurivocal phenomenon drawing on Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Barthes, Nancy, Adorno, and de Certeau, and experimental pioneers such as Tesla, Bell, and Raudive. Stringent critiques of the “soundscape” and “reduced listening” demonstrate that univocal ontologies of sound are always partial and politicized; for listening is always a selective fetishism, a hallucination of sound filtered by desire and convention, territorialized by discourse and its authorities. Bonnet proposes neither a disciplined listening that targets sound “itself,” nor an “ocean of sound” in which we might lose ourselves, but instead maps out a sonorous archipelago—a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped and aggregated by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse.

Author : Ralph Crane,Lisa Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783482078

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Island Genres, Genre Islands by Ralph Crane,Lisa Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania Pdf

The first book length study of the conceptualization and representation of islands in popular fiction.

Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771621625

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Island of the Blue Foxes by Stephen R. Bown Pdf

The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history. Lasting nearly ten years and spanning three continents, its geographical, cartographical and natural history accomplishments are on par with James Cook's famous voyages, the scientific circumnavigations of Alessandro Malaspina and Louis Antoine de Bougainville, and Lewis and Clark's cross-continental trek. Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s and led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering, the enterprise involved a cavalcade of nearly three thousand scientists, secretaries, interpreters, artists, surveyors, naval officers, mariners, soldiers and labourers, all of whom had to be brought across five thousand miles of roadless forests, swamps and tundra, along with tools, supplies, libraries and scientific implements--as well as the clavichord belonging to Bering's wife, Anna. Scientific objectives included investigating flora, fauna and minerals as well as outlandish rumours about the Siberian peoples. After the expedition reached the eastern coast of Asia, Bering oversaw the construction of two ships, the St. Peter and St. Paul, and sailed for America with one hundred and fifty men, including the German naturalist and surgeon Georg Steller. The voyage was plagued by ill fortune--a supply ship failed to arrive, officers quarrelled and the ships were separated in a storm. While St. Paul reached Alaska and reported back to Russia, Bering's ship, St. Peter, was wrecked on a desolate island in the Aleutian Chain inhabited by feral foxes. Island of the Blue Foxes is an incredible true-life adventure story, a story of personal and cultural animosities, unimaginable Gothic horrors and ingenuity in the face of adversity.

Author : Richard J. Heggen
Publisher : Richard Heggen
Page : 1227 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Floating Islands by Richard J. Heggen Pdf

Floating Islands in science, history, the arts and any number of sightings elsewhere