This Luminous Coast

Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780801455322

Get Book

This Luminous Coast by Jules Pretty Pdf

Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks. East Anglia's coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region's cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world.

Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780801455315

Get Book

This Luminous Coast by Jules Pretty Pdf

Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked along the shoreline of East Anglia in southeastern England, eventually exploring four hundred miles on foot (and another hundred miles by boat). It is a coast and a culture that is about to be lost—not yet, perhaps, but soon—to rising tides and industrial sprawl. This Luminous Coast takes the reader with him on his journey over land and water; over sea walls of dried grass, beside stretched fields of golden crops, alongside white sails gliding across the intricate lacework of invisible creeks and estuaries, under vast skies that are home to curlews and redshanks and the outpourings of skylarks. East Anglia’s coastline is as much a human landscape as it is a natural one, and Pretty is equally perceptive about the region’s cultural heritage and its "industrial wild": fishing villages and the modern seaside resorts, family farms and oil refineries, pleasure piers and concrete seawalls, cozy pubs and military installations. Through words and photographs, Pretty interweaves stories of the land and sea with people past and present. He is a passionate and sensitive guide to a region in transition, under stress, and perhaps even doomed, as finely attuned to its history as he is to its unique sensory world.

Author : Jules N. Pretty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Coast changes
ISBN : 0956186963

Get Book

This Luminous Coast by Jules N. Pretty Pdf

'This Luminous Coast' is a social and ecological portrait of one of the richest yet least-known regions of Britain. Over the course of a year, Jules Pretty walked the coasts of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, completing 400 miles on foot and travelling a further 100 miles in a variety of boats. This is a coast about to be lost.

Author : Jules Pretty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801455032

Get Book

The Edge of Extinction by Jules Pretty Pdf

In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future of the planet. Pretty addresses not only current threats to natural and cultural diversity but also the unsustainability of modern lifestyles typical of industrialized countries. In a very real sense, Pretty discovers, what we manage to preserve now may well save us later.Jules Pretty's travels take him among the Maori people along the coasts of the Pacific, into the mountains of China, and across petroglyph-rich deserts of Australia. He treks with nomads over the continent-wide steppes of Tuva in southern Siberia, walks and boats in the wildlife-rich inland swamps of southern Africa, and experiences the Arctic with ice fishermen in Finland. He explores the coasts and inland marshes of eastern England and Northern Ireland and accompanies Innu people across the taiga’s snowy forests and the lakes of the Labrador interior. Pretty concludes his global journey immersed in the discrete cultures and landscapes embedded within the American landscape: the small farms of the Amish, the swamps of the Cajuns in the deep South, and the deserts of California.The diverse people Pretty meets in The Edge of Extinction display deep pride in their relationships with the land and are only willing to join with the modern world on their own terms. By the examples they set, they offer valuable lessons for anyone seeking to find harmony in a world cracking under the pressures of apparently insatiable consumption patterns of the affluent.

Author : S. Trower
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230339774

Get Book

Place, Writing, and Voice in Oral History by S. Trower Pdf

This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today, including global environmental concerns.

Author : Melissa Barbeau
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 155081737X

Get Book

The Luminous Sea by Melissa Barbeau Pdf

The Luminous Sea is a novel in the fictional Newfoundland outport of Molasses Bay. While the novel owes a debt to the magic realist tradition, it falls into the literary genre of new weird. A team of researchers are studying the emergence of phosphorescent tides and in the process of sampling marine life populations Vivienne, a young research assistant, hooks up a creature unknown to science: a kind of fish, both sentient and distinctly female. Vivienne's supervisors, Colleen and Isaiah, recognize the importance of the discovery and intend to exploit it to their fullest benefit. They begin invasive scientific testing on the specimen even as they make preparations to transport the animal to St. John's. Meanwhile, the creature is wasting away, and Vivienne is increasingly disturbed by the events around her. Colleen and Isaiah are willing to do anything to keep their discovery a secret and Vivienne is forced to decide if she will endanger herself to save her fish.

Author : Peter Aylmer
Publisher : Cicerone Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781783626717

Get Book

Walking in Essex by Peter Aylmer Pdf

This guidebook describes 25 coastal and inland day walks covering the whole of the county of Essex, stretching from the Lea Valley in the west and the Thames in the south over to the North Sea and up to the River Stour in the north. Walks range from 4 to 18 miles and are mostly circular. Also included is a description of the Essex Way which crosses the county in 11 stages from Manor Park, on the fringes of London, to the port of Harwich - a distance of 96 miles. The walks are suitable for all abilities and there are shorter alternatives for many of the longer routes. With a huge variety of scenery and walking landscapes, Essex surprises and delights in equal measure. It boasts a 350-mile coastline (which, away from the busy seaside resorts, is barely known), numerous estuaries and river valleys, great and ancient forests, and more green lanes than any other English county except Dorset. Each walk is described step-by-step, illustrated with OS map extracts and packed with historical, and geological information about the landscape the route passes through.

Author : Lil Chrzan
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781039121942

Get Book

Towards Light by Lil Chrzan Pdf

TOWARDS LIGHT richly redefines the way we experience the scenic beauty of British Columbia. With each magical painting, artist Lil Chrzan informs the viewer that a landscape is not just about clouds and trees but rather the subtle quality of light and shadow in the spaces between. This book will captivate collectors and fans of Lil Chrzan’s work and lovers of the Canadian landscape. Thanks to Lil you will never again look at a landscape the same way. —Vicki Smith, Artist LIL CHRZAN is a Canadian Landscape painter known for her masterful depictions of golden light across luminous West Coast scenes. Viewers invited into her world experience a sense of calm transcendence when taking in the dramatic light-filled paintings. Chrzan’s paintings are not intended to be direct representations of nature, but rather a process of extracting the most essential elements in a scene. Her careful brushwork and critical awareness of humanity in relation to nature sets the scene for her own signature style and vision. These works hum with intensity while offering the viewer contemplative calmness. This body of work features more than eighty-five reproductions of Chrzan’s most outstanding landscape paintings as well as an essay by Dr. Michael Thoma, School of Motion Picture Arts, Capilano University. —Alissa Sexton, Art Consultant

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015053686435

Get Book

Scientific American by Anonim Pdf

Author : Allan Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0991640446

Get Book

This Luminous by Allan Peterson Pdf

Oregon Book Awards Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry - Finalist Praise for Previous Work "Peterson is one of our most valuable poet-thinkers and thinker-poets, a writer who can show us how much is within our grasp and much is beyond it."--LA Review of Books "His observing eye, as astute as the most finely honed telephoto lens, is such that he's able to transform even the ordinary into something so exquisite it provokes wonder and awe."--Mary Jo Bang "Like 'Brazil's undiscovered caverns of amethyst, ' Allan Peterson's Fragile Acts is a major find."--John Ashbery "He puts music to the tension between the desperate human experience and the cool removal of the cosmos. His poems are refreshingly discrete artifacts--perfected and edgy--raw at the same time."--Laura Kasischke "Allan Peterson's meditations on domestic tranquility and ecocatastrophe are so smart that they could actually make you smarter."--Boston Review "Soul-poppingly magnetic."--The Rumpus From the vast complexities of a world in which synesthesia is our natural translator, Allan Peterson's poems convey the consistent message that the ordinary isn't. Selected from books and chapbooks covering almost thirty years of writing, Peterson's work draws heavily from landscapes like the Gulf Coast, the sciences, history, and the author's background in visual arts. Details of perception and observation demonstrate why these reflective works, often dense with images and intuitive jumps, have received national and international recognition.

Author : Alexander George Findlay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : PRNC:32101067288421

Get Book

A Sailing Directory for the Ethiopic Or Southern Atlantic Ocean by Alexander George Findlay Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015084573891

Get Book

Engineering by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nautical astronomy
ISBN : UCSD:31822038688479

Get Book

American Practical Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch Pdf

Author : Robert L. Harris
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780063268302

Get Book

Returning Light by Robert L. Harris Pdf

The Acclaimed International Bestseller “It is impossible to do justice to the beauty of Returning Light. The whole book is a poem.” — New York Times Book Review By the lighthouse keeper on the remote, otherworldly Irish island of Skellig Michael, a "profound memoir about the importance of place and what it really means to belong" (Belfast Telegraph) “On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and unravel over the empty sea. Often, no one else is there to stand beside me on the island. The mind wanders; links with the past are easily made; ancient ways of viewing things come alive.” In 1987, Robert Harris happened upon an unusual job posting in the local paper—a new warden service was being set up on the island of Skellig Michael, and the deadline was imminent. Just weeks later he was on his way to set up camp in one of Ireland’s most remote locations, unaware that he would be making that same journey every May for the next 30 years. Here he transports us to the otherworldly island, a place that is teeming with natural life, including curious puffins that like to visit his hut. From the precipice he has observed a coastline that is relatively unchanged for the last thousand years—a beacon of equilibrium in an ever-changing world. But the island can be fierce too. It’s inhabitable for only five months of the year, and solitude can quickly become isolation as bad weather rolls in to create a veil between Skellig Michael and the rest of the world, when the dizzying terrain can become a very real threat to life. A beautiful and evocative work of nature writing, Returning Light is an extraordinary memoir about the profound effect a place can have on us, and how a remote location can bring with it a great sense of belonging.

Author : Charles Fort
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781596050303

Get Book

New Lands by Charles Fort Pdf

There are many books that tell of sightings of ghosts, aliens, and strange animals. But Charles Fort's "New Lands" is perhaps the only book in which whole continents, geographies, and, indeed, planetary systems themselves are seen in the same uncertain twilight of perception.