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Author | : Jennifer Livett |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1952534852 |
A brilliant debut novel that provides an alternative ending to Jane Eyre in Van Diemen's Land. 'My name is Harriet Adair, and forty years ago on that ship I was Jane Eyre's companion. That voyage also brought me friendship with another intrepid Jane: Lady Franklin. Her husband, Sir John, the Arctic Lion, was Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land during the six turbulent years when Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester had good reason to be closely interested in the island.' Harriet Adair has come to Van Diemen's Land with Mrs Anna Rochester, who is recovering from years of imprisonment in the attic of 'Thornfield Hall'. Sent to the colony by Jane and Rochester, they are searching for the truth about Anna's past, trying to unearth long-buried secrets. Captain Charles O'Hara Booth, Commandant of Port Arthur Penal Settlement, fears some secrets of his own will be discovered when Sir John Franklin replaces Colonel Arthur as Governor. Franklin and his wife Jane arrive in Hobart Town to find the colony is run by a clique of Arthur's former army officers who have no intention of relinquishing their power. This dazzling modern recreation of a nineteenth century novel ingeniously entwines Jane Eyre's iconic love story with Sir John Franklin's great tale of exploration and empire. A brilliant and historically accurate depiction of Van Diemen's Land society in the 1800s, as well as a vivid portrayal of the human cost of colonisation, Wild Island shows us that fiction and history are not so different after all. Each story, whether it be truth or fiction, is shaped by its teller.
Author | : Anita Ganeri |
Publisher | : Hippo Bks |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Castaways |
ISBN | : 9780439978682 |
Geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and crazy contour lines? Wave goodbye to boring geogaphy lessons as you are cast away on the far-flung shores of Wild Islands... *Marvel! as a brand-new island pops up from the sea. *Gasp! at the hot-tempered island that blew its top. *Choke! on the smell of an island dragon's foul breath. And if that's not wild enough for you ... discover where to find coconuts with magical powers, try to crack the case of the missing island and read the remarkable story of a real-life Robinson Crusoe. It's earth-shatteringly exciting! Geography has never been so horrible!
Author | : Drew Doggett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-07-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780996129220 |
In this large-format, limited edition book by award-winning photographer Drew Doggett, discover the story of the wild and free horses of Sable Island as told through over 100 exquisitely reproduced photographs and personal writings. This book comes encased in a protective cloth clamshell and with a companion print; only 250 copies are available.
Author | : Ted Edwards |
Publisher | : Salem House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
The author brings this unusual island into sharp focus as he describes his solo walk across it.
Author | : John L. Read |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Logging |
ISBN | : 9780980760002 |
This is the story of Tetepare, the South Pacific's largest uninhabited island. One and a half centuries after headhunters fled the island, Tetepare's virgin rainforest and teeming coral reefs were pitted against destructive logging companies and greedy 'big men'. Yet from the darkest years of the Solomon Islands' ethnic tension arose the nations' first world-class conservation initiative. Peppered with humorous anecdotes, The Last Wild Island: Saving Tetepare will entertain and inform about the culture of this intriguing island nation.
Author | : Donna K. Grosvenor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780870441660 |
Text and photographs describe the lives of the wild ponies of Assateague including the annual pony penning on nearby Chincoteague Island.
Author | : Anouk Masson Krantz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781864708851 |
Photography, Nature In Wild Horses of Cumberland Island, photographer Anouk Masson Krantz has captured the dramatic scenery and majestic horses as they have never been seen before. Her images show the remarkable animals in their naturally diverse ecosystems.
Author | : Larry Points |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1997-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780939365593 |
Describes the life and natural environment of the pony breed that lives on the long barrier island off the Maryland and Virginia coast.
Author | : Roisin O'Donnell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Short stories, Irish |
ISBN | : 9781848405004 |
A memory-eating, closet-dwelling beast escapes its confines; a Somali girl in a Donegal school is tougher than she seems; under a jasmine tree in AndalucĂa, a woman waits for her stolen son; at the edge of a city, two brothers step unwittingly into a game that turns deadly. The scope and diversity of these stories knows no bounds, sitting somewhere between the real and imaginary. Wild Quiet contains a world viewed from unexpected angles, where the ordinary is rendered extraordinary and the extraordinary sublime. These are stories woven with compassion and humour, announcing the arrival of a fresh new voice in Irish literature. In this astonishingly innovative and bold collection, Roisin O'Donnell examines the hurts and triumphs of being human, and the wild, quiet moments that approach something like grace. Book jacket.
Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781536435078 |
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.