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| Author | : James H. English |
| Publisher | : Quirk Books |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2015-12-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1594749167 |
Can you save fire island before it’s too late? It was supposed to be a nice, relaxing weekend—with a little swimming, a lot of cocktails, and more hot bods than a year’s subscription to Men’s Health magazine. But when a vat of radioactive waste washes onto the beach, strange things start happening—and now an army of zombie drag queens is storming the coast! Can you save Fire Island before it’s too late? Or will you perish at the hands of a thousand shrieking divas? It all depends on the choices YOU make. If you run toward the nearest ferry terminal, turn to page 44. If you flirt with the cute twink, turn to page 55. If you throw caution to the wind and join the nearest circuit party, turn to page 80. What happens next? That depends on YOU! How does the story end? Only YOU can find out! Best of all, you can read this book again and again until you’ve had 29 amazing adventures!
| Author | : Bill Perry |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Beachcombing |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jack Nichols |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : Cherry Grove (N.Y.) |
| ISBN | : 9780900997815 |
| Author | : Christopher Bascom Rawlins |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Seaside architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781938922091 |
In the Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York's Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Pairing this sensitivity with jazzy improvisations on modernist themes, he perfected a sustainable modernism in cedar and glass that was as attuned to natural landscapes as to our animal natures. Gifford's serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Celebrities lived in modestly scaled homes alongside middle-class vacationers, all with equal access to Fire Island's natural beauty. Blending cultural and architectural history, this book ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life, work and colorful milieu trace the operatic arc of a lost generation, and still resonate with artistic and historical import.
| Author | : Jack Parlett |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2022-06-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0369720474 |
*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?* *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”* *AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2022* *A USA Today "Book to Celebrate Pride Month"* *A New York Times "Editor's Pick"* *A Kirkus Reviews Hottest Book of Summer* A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a locus of contradictions, all of which coalesce against a stunning ocean backdrop. Now, poet and scholar Jack Parlett tells the story of this iconic destination—its history, its meaning and its cultural significance—told through the lens of the artists and creators who sought refuge on its shores. Together, figures as divergent as Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Carson McCullers, Frank O'Hara, Patricia Highsmith and Jeremy O. Harris tell the story of a queer space in constant evolution. Transporting, impeccably researched and gorgeously written, Fire Island is the definitive book on an iconic American destination and an essential contribution to queer history.
| Author | : Bill Perry |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 92 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Fire Island National Seashore (N.Y.) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jack Whitehouse |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2011-06-03 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1614233845 |
Fire Island, or Great South Beach as it is also known, is a 32-mile long sliver of a barrier beach located just off the South Shore of Long Island. Always a wild, lonely and untamed wilderness, its shores, waterways and the lands surrounding it have given us innumerable stories -- some inspirational, some frightening, but all of them intriguing. The stories in this book portray people and events from the island's earliest days, when it served Native Americans as a rich hunting, fishing and whaling site until the present day and its use as a U.S. National Seashore and National Wilderness Area.
| Author | : Norman Springer |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2022-07-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Fire Mountain" (A Thrilling Sea Story) by Norman Springer. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
| Author | : Terry Bisson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780312890353 |
Bears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the darkly comic title story, which garnered the field's highest honors, including the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus awards.
| Author | : David Barrado Navascués |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2023-05-26 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3031298853 |
This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward. During this time, cosmography—a science that combined geography and astronomy to inform us about our place in the universe—was deeply tied to ongoing developments in politics, exploration, culture, and technology. The book offers in-depth historical context over nearly four centuries, focusing in particular on the often neglected role that Portugal and Spain played in the development of cosmography. It details the great activity emerging from the Iberian and Italic peninsulas, including numerous voyagers of exploration, a clear commercial intention, and advancements in map-making techniques. In doing so, it provides a unique perspective on the “Longitude problem” not available in most other literature on the topic. Rigorously researched and sweeping in scope, this book will serve as an invaluable source for historians and readers interested in the history of science, of astronomy, and of exploration from a southern European perspective.
