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Author : William Walker
Publisher : Trafford
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1412074177
In the Isles of the Sea reveals God's best kept secret regarding the identity of the British and American people and their ultimate destiny linked to Biblical prophecy.
Author : Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780061238826
In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad—"Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres. . . . Puffins and seals. Apply."—and thus found the Shiants. With a name meaning "holy or enchanted islands," the Shiants for millennia were a haven for those seeking solitude, but their rich, sometimes violent history of human habitation includes much more. When he was twenty-one, Nicolson inherited this almost indescribably beautiful property: a landscape, soaked in centuries-old tales of restless ghosts and Bronze Age gold, that cradles the heritage of a once-vibrant world of farmers and fishermen. In Sea Room, Nicolson describes and relives his love affair with the three tiny islands and their strange and colorful history in passionate, keenly precise prose—sharing with us the greatest gift an island bestows on its inhabitants: a deep engagement with the natural world.
Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192598523
England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a dramatic story of sieges and battles, pirates and shipwrecks, prisoners and prophets, as kings and commoners negotiated the political, military, religious, and administrative demands of the early modern state. The Channel Islands, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly, the Isle of Man, Lundy, Holy Island and others emerge as important offshore outposts that long remained strange, separate, and perversely independent. England's islands were difficult to govern, and were prone to neglect, yet their strategic value far outweighed their size. Though vulnerable to foreign threats, their harbours and castles served as forward bases of English power. In civil war they were divided and contested, fought over and occupied. Jersey and the Isles of Scilly served as refuges for royalists on the run. Charles I was held on the Isle of Wight. External authority was sometimes light of touch, as English governments used the islands as fortresses, commercial assets, and political prisons. London was often puzzled by the linguistic differences, tangled histories, and special claims of island communities. Though increasingly integrated within the realm, the islands maintained challenging peculiarities and distinctive characteristics. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and the insights of maritime, military, and legal scholarship, this is an original contribution to social, cultural, and constitutional history.
Author : Torsten Weitze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1705284752
Author : Kenneth Macleod
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781528799621
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Jonny Muir
Publisher : Sandstone PressLtd
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1905207611
An account of an exploration of Scotland's most far-flung islands, with beautiful color photographs.
Author : Philip Marsden
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783783014
In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. On the way, he must navigate the west coast of Ireland and the Inner Hebrides. Bearing the full force of the Atlantic, it is a seaboard which is also a mythical frontier, a place as rich in story as anywhere on earth. Through the people he meets and the tales he uncovers, Marsden builds up a haunting picture of these shores - of imaginary islands and the Celtic otherworld, of the ageless draw of the west, of the life of the sea and perennial loss - and the redemptive power of the imagination. Exhilarating and poignant, Marsden's prose has been widely praised. Bringing together themes he has been pursuing for many years, The Summer Isles is an unforgettable account of the search for actual places, invented places, and those places in between that shape the lives of individuals and entire nations.
Author : Edward Walter Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Australia
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1LAQ
Author : B. Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : OXFORD:600038819
Author : University of the South Pacific. School of Social and Economic Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Islands of the Pacific
ISBN : UOM:39015033070312
Author : S. M. Stirling
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451456755
“Utterly engaging...a page-turner that is certain to win the author legions of new readers and fans.”—George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth century...but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age! Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely understand and deal with impending disaster, in the shape of a would-be conqueror from their own time.
Author : Andrew Jennings,Silke Reeploeg,Angela Watt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443892681
Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and, to some extent, the Hebrides, share both a Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage, and the experience of being surrounded by the ever-present North Atlantic Ocean. This has been a constant in the islanders’ history, forging their unique way of life, influencing their customs and traditions, and has been instrumental in moulding their identities. This volume is an exploration of a rich, intimate and, at times, terrifying relationship. It is the result of an international conference held in April 2014, when scholars from across the North Atlantic rim congregated in Lerwick, Shetland, to discuss maritime traditions, islands in Old Norse literature, insular archaeology, folklore, and traditional belief. The chapters reflect the varied origins of the contributors. Icelanders are well represented, as are scholars based in Orkney and Shetland, indicating the strength of scholarship in these seemingly isolated archipelagos. Peripheral they may be to the UK, but they lie at the heart of the North Atlantic, at the intersection of British and Nordic cultures. This book will be of interest to scholars of a wide range of disciplines, such as those involved in island studies, cultural studies, Old Norse literature, Icelandic studies, maritime heritage, oceanography, linguistics, folklore, British studies, ethnology, and archaeology. Similarly, it will also appeal to researchers from a wide geographical area, particularly the UK, and Scandinavia, and indeed anywhere where there is an interest in the study of islands or the North Atlantic.
Author : William Taylor Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3744712990
Isles of the Sea - Young America - A Story of Travel and Adventure is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author : George Jones
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734010620
Reproduction of the original: The History of Ancient Amerika, Anterior to the Time of Columbus by George Jones
Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481443104
Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland.