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Author | : Donald Richie |
Publisher | : Stone Bridge Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2015-09-28 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1611729165 |
"An elegiac prose celebration . . . a classic in its genre."—Publishers Weekly In this acclaimed travel memoir, Donald Richie paints a memorable portrait of the island-studded Inland Sea. His existential ruminations on food, culture, and love and his brilliant descriptions of life and landscape are a window into an Old Japan that has now nearly vanished. Included are the twenty black and white photographs by Yoichi Midorikawa that accompanied the original 1971 edition. Donald Richie (1924-2013) was an internationally recognized expert on Japanese culture and film. Yoichi Midorikawa (1915-2001) was one of Japan's foremost nature photographers.
Author | : Madeleine Watts |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1646220188 |
In this "eloquent debut," a young Australian woman unable to find her footing in the world begins to break down when the emergencies she hears working as a 911 operator and the troubles within her own life gradually blur together, forcing her to grapple with how the past has shaped her present (Publishers Weekly). Drifting after her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. Callers report car accidents and violent spouses and homes caught up in flame. The work becomes monotonous: answer, transfer, repeat. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins walking home with keys in hand, ready to fight off men disappointed by what they find in neighboring bars. During her free time, she gets black-out drunk, hooks up with strangers, and navigates an affair with an ex-lover whose girlfriend is in their circle of friends. Two centuries earlier, her great-great-great-great-grandfather--the British explorer John Oxley--traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea, but the myth was taken up by other men, and over the years, search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. Interweaving a woman's self-destructive unraveling with the gradual worsening of the climate crisis, The Inland Sea is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent, this novel asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency.
Author | : Robert Kelley |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520214285 |
"Of late historians have become increasingly interested in the vast re-ordering of the environment involved in the creation of America. Nowhere was this more true than in the Sacramento Valley where re-ordering edged into folly. Battling the Inland Sea is a powerful evocation of the losses and gains involved in battling the mighty Sacramento River. But more than this, it is an exploration of the national will as it sought to rearrange nature herself with such mixed results. Here is history dealing with the most elemental forces of land, water and engineering as they are shaped by public policy. Here is the profound drama of value and symbol which occurs when Americans come into conflict with forces over which they can exercise, as Robert Kelley shows, only the most transitory and pyrrhic victories."—Kevin Starr, author of the Americans and the California Dream "Robert Kelley's research into the origins of California's first great flood control system has already helped to inform the shaping of the state's water laws. Now he opens up the benefits of that work for the average reader in a wonderfully clear and engaging story that manages, among other things, to show that water development in the United States hasn't been just a matter of engineering but a cultural and intellectual achievement as well."—William Kahrl, author of Water and Power "A vividly written narrative of one of the major transformations of the physical world we inhabit. Robert Kelley draws upon his rich store of learning and insight to set the struggles over the Sacramento Valley into a broad context. His book contains important lessons for those who would understand the American economy, environment, politics, or culture."—Daniel W. Howe, author of The Political Culture of the American Whigs
Author | : William Donohue Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Great Lakes (North America) |
ISBN | : 9780517187845 |
Author | : James Williamson |
Publisher | : Kingston [Ont.] : J. Duff |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Great Lakes (North America) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Cooke Mills |
Publisher | : Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Company |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfred Lambourne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Great Salt Lake (Utah). |
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Author | : Theodore J. Karamanski |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2020-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299326306 |
Theodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating the Great Lakes had on the national economies, politics, and environment of continental North America. Synthesizing popular as well as original historical scholarship, Karamanski weaves a colorful narrative illustrating how disparate private and government interests transformed these vast and dangerous waters into the largest inland water transportation system in the world. Karamanski explores both the navigational and sailing tools of First Nations peoples and the dismissive and foolhardy attitude of early European maritime sailors. He investigates the role played by commercial boats in the Underground Railroad, as well as how the federal development of crucial navigational resources exacerbated sectionalism in the antebellum United States. Ultimately Mastering the Inland Sea shows the undeniable environmental impact of technologies used by the modern commercial maritime industry. This expansive story illuminates the symbiotic relationship between infrastructure investment in the region's interconnected waterways and North America's lasting economic and political development.
Author | : Jerry Dennis |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312331030 |
The author provides an account of his experiences as a crew member on a tall-masted schooner during a six-week voyage through the Great Lakes, and discusses his other explorations of the lakes, looking at their history, geology, and environmental disaster and rescue.
Author | : James Cooke Mills |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780265230046 |
Excerpt from Our Inland Seas: Their Shipping Commerce for Three Centuries When the land began to show its increase and Indian trade was fostered, the lakes and rivers were the natural highways of communication with the outside world, and upon their waters were carried the rich products of the wilds. On the return trips the light, bobbling canoes brought the goods and trinkets of civilization for barter with the natives. With increasing trade there appeared larger and beamier boats, much more stable, to take the place of the Indian canoe; and in time the small sailing craft became the economic mode of conveyance. Finally the steamboat appeared and, with all its fussing and fuming and boiler explosions, was soon the popular means of travel. There was some degree of certainty in its movements, as it was less dependent upon wind and wave. When the tide of immigration set in about eighty years ago, there followed a rapid development of the material resources of the new land; and the expanse of the lakes and the connecting water highways became arteries of an extensive commerce. Shipbuilding was greatly stimulated, and the steam tonnage was of such size and the cabin accommodations for the comfort and pleasure of passen gers so well provided, that travel on the lakes was no longer regarded as a hardship to be avoided if other means were at hand. The increased size of the steam boats and the march of progress toward the West brought about demands for deeper channels, which were met by digging out the navigable streams and the canalization of narrow and shallow rivers. The principal ports on the lakes were made safe harbors of refuge, lighthouses and other beacons were established to mark dangerous reefs and narrow channels; and, in more recent years, the life-saving service and the lake survey have been added as further safeguards to life and treasure. As years passed, excursions on the lakes became popular and of daily occurrence from the larger ports durin the summer months, and tourist travel throughout the Fresh water seas was inaugurated. There has been, and is still, a mighty wave of expansion, impelled by a spirit of optimism, sweeping over the Great Lakes region; com merce continues to grow apace; and, despite the extension of railroads paralleling every marine highway, with a diversion of a portion of the lake traffic to the rail routes, the water-borne commerce has increased in volume and the vessel interests have prospered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.