That Golden Shore

Author : Michael Quentin Morton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780236155

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Keepers of the Golden Shore by Michael Quentin Morton Pdf

For those who visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE), staying in its the lavish hotels and browsing in the ultra-modern shopping malls of Abu Dhabi or Dubai, the country can be a mystery, a glass and concrete creation that seems to have sprung from the desert overnight. Keepers of the Golden Shore looks behind this glossy façade, illuminating the region’s history, which stretches from the ancient Arabian tribes who controlled a desolate but economically important shoreline to the ostentatious architectural wonders—bankrolled by a massive wealth of oil—that characterize it today. As Michael Quentin Morton recounts, the region now known as the UAE likely began as a trading post between Mesopotamia and Oman, and since that time has been the stage of important economic and cultural exchanges. It has seen the rise and fall of a thriving pearl industry, piracy, invasions and wars, and the arrival of the oil age that would make it one of the richest countries on earth. Since the early 1970s, when seven sheikhs agreed to enter into a union, it has been a sovereign nation, carrying on the resourceful spirit—with resplendent fervor—that the brutally inhospitable landscape has long demanded of the people. Ultimately, Morton shows that the country is not only rich in oil and money but in an extraordinarily deep history and culture.

Author : Courtney Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817011218

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To the Golden Shore by Courtney Anderson Pdf

This book tells how the 'golden shore' bought bitter hardships, imprisonment, and family tragedy.

Author : David Helvarg
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781608684403

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The Golden Shore by David Helvarg Pdf

From the first human settlements to the latest marine explorations, The Golden Shore tells the tale of the history, culture, and changing nature of California’s coasts and ocean. David Helvarg takes the reader on both a geographic and literary journey along the state’s 1,100-mile Pacific coastline, from the Oregon border to the San Diego–Tijuana international border fence and out into its whale-, seal-, and shark-rich offshore seamounts, rock isles, and kelp forests. Part history, part travelogue, part love letter, The Golden Shore captures the spirit of the California coast and its mythic place in American culture.

Author : J.D. Kleinke
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610845199

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That Golden Shore by J.D. Kleinke Pdf

What happened to the California dream? Was it consumed by fire? Swept away in a mudslide? Or was it just lost in soul-crushing traffic? That Golden Shore is a bittersweet love letter to the Golden State in slow-motion apocalypse, a tragi-comic caravan of aging rock stars and yoga gurus, surf punks and besieged immigrants, washouts from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and the professional surf tour. It charts the odd collisions of history, culture, and spirituality that have seduced people to California for centuries: its lore and landscapes; its fragile, vanishing, impossible beauty; the mad frustrations of trying live in a place collapsing under the weight of its own mythology. In That Golden Shore, a working musician holed up in an off-the-grid beach town failing into the ocean gives us a stage-eye view of the tribal power of music, the healing power of surfing, and the enduring, redemptive power of landscape.

Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393344417

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The Golden Ocean by Patrick O'Brian Pdf

The first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series. In the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson and his men encountered disaster, disease, and astonishing success. They circumnavigated the globe and seized a nearly incalcuable sum of Spanish gold and silver, but only one of the five ships survived. This is the background to the first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea, a precursor to the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series that shares the excitement and rich humor of those books. The protagonist is Peter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson, who signs on as a midshipman, never before having seen a ship. Together with his lifelong friend Sean, Peter sets out to seek his fortune, embarking upon a journey of danger, disappointment, foreign lands, and excitement. Here is a tale certain to please not only admirers of O'Brian's work but also any reader with an adventurous soul.

Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWK6PS

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Snow-bound by John Greenleaf Whittier Pdf

Author : Kathryn Jackson,Byron Jackson
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375985799

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A Day at the Seashore by Kathryn Jackson,Byron Jackson Pdf

A classic Little Golden Book—with a summertime theme! Nancy and Timmy hop out of their beds one summer morning and help pack their swimsuits and lunch. And then it's off to the seashore! In a charming rhyme, this Little Golden Book from 1951 (then titled A Day at the Beach) describes what preschoolers will find there: "You can catch little crabs—if you're quick! You can draw great big pictures right on the beach with a piece of a shell or a stick." Oh, what fun! From Kathryn and Byron Jackson, authors of the popular Little Golden Book The Saggy Baggy Elephant, and Corinne Malvern, illustrator of the Little Golden Books Doctor Dan the Bandage Man and Nurse Nancy.

Author : Rosalie Hall Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0817014799

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Bless God and Take Courage by Rosalie Hall Hunt Pdf

An engaging and in-depth tale of a couple who influenced the birth of American missions, "Bless God and Take Courage" (one of Ann Judson's favorite sayings) provides an intriguing trail of never-before-published discoveries about the missionaries.

Author : John Vaillant
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307371324

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The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION • WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE “Absolutely spellbinding.” —The New York Times The environmental true-crime story of a glorious natural wonder, the man who destroyed it, and the fascinating, troubling context in which this act took place. FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR On a winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence in the mythic Queen Charlotte Islands. His victim was legendary: a unique 300-year-old Sitka spruce tree, fifty metres tall and covered with luminous golden needles. In a bizarre environmental protest, Hadwin attacked the tree with a chainsaw. Two days later, it fell, horrifying an entire community. Not only was the golden spruce a scientific marvel and a tourist attraction, it was sacred to the Haida people and beloved by local loggers. Shortly after confessing to the crime, Hadwin disappeared under suspicious circumstances and is missing to this day. As John Vaillant deftly braids together the strands of this thrilling mystery, he brings to life the ancient beauty of the coastal wilderness, the historical collision of Europeans and the Haida, and the harrowing world of logging—the most dangerous land-based job in North America.

Author : Suzanne Del Rizzo
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1771473606

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Golden Threads by Suzanne Del Rizzo Pdf

A beloved toy fox becomes lost, tattered, repaired, and loved for his imperfections

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479451210

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On the Beach by Nevil Shute Pdf

"On the Beach" is a 1957 post-apocalyptic novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the northern hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches each person deals with their impending death in different ways.

Author : Michael Quentin Morton
Publisher : Green Mountain Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780955221200

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In the Heart of the Desert by Michael Quentin Morton Pdf

In the heart of the desert is the biography of exploration geologist Mike Morton, written by his son who grew up with his father's stories and first came to experience the desert on their field trips together. Making use of Mike's journals and letters and writings of his contemporaries, the author describes his father's jouneys and what it was like for westerners to live in the Middle East in the post-World War II years. The book is also a history of oil exploration in the Middle East, relying onthe author's extensive research into company archives and eye-witness accounts of activities in the field. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Wendy Wax
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101580998

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Ocean Beach by Wendy Wax Pdf

Three women find a second chance—or is it a third—in this novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Best Beach Ever. When unlikely friends Madeline, Avery, and Nicole arrive in Miami’s South Beach neighborhood, they’re hoping for a do-over. Literally. They’ve been hired to bring a historic house back to its former glory on a new television show called Do Over. If they can just get this show off the ground, Nikki could fix her finances, Avery could restart her career, and Maddie would have a shot at keeping her family together. The women quickly realize that having their work broadcast is one thing, but having their personal lives play out on TV is another. Soon they’re struggling to hold themselves, and the project, together. With a decades-old mystery—and hurricane season—looming, the women are forced to figure out just how they’ll weather life’s storms...

Author : Patrick O’Brian
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007466450

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The Unknown Shore by Patrick O’Brian Pdf

The second book Patrick O’Brian wrote about the sea and a brilliant sequel to The Golden Ocean.

Author : Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316256667

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Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand Pdf

In this #1 bestselling page-turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine), a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl. On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three “nudges” to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage, Carson partying until all hours, and Leo currently “off again” with his high-maintenance girlfriend, she’ll have to think carefully where to use them. From the Beyond, Vivi watches “The Chief” Ed Kapenash investigate her death, but her greatest worry is her final book, which contains a secret from her own youth that could be disastrous for her reputation. But when hidden truths come to light, Vivi’s family will have to sort out their past and present mistakes—with or without a nudge of help from above—while Vivi finally lets them grow without her. With all of Elin’s trademark beach scenes, mouth-watering meals, and picture-perfect homes, plus a heartfelt message—the people we lose never really leave us—Golden Girl is a beach book unlike any other.