From Islands To Portraits
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Author | : Sergio Perosa |
Publisher | : IOS Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781586030551 |
Throughout the long course of literature, islands have accumulated uncanny connotations of death, together with peculiarities of linguistic definition and expression. Since the age of discovery, after the Caribbean Islands, America itself, and later the archipelagos and atolls in the Pacific became known to travellers and conquistadores, islands have been sought, searched, explored and physically possessed as women; cultural recognition takes the form of sexual and physical possession (Venus was born from the sea, and is identified with an island). These are the themes of the first two variations discussed in this book.
Author | : Louise B. Young |
Publisher | : W.H. Freeman |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780716739661 |
"Once you have slept on an island, you'll never be quite the same", begins an old verse. Places of dreams and desires, islands have long held a primal sway over our hearts and imaginations. In this beautifully written, exquisitely illustrated book, Louise Young explores some of the most fascinating of these isolated landscapes, particularly those whose stories address the delicate balance that exists between the land, the people, and other living things. An environmentalist and geophysicist, Young describes the unique history and personality of each island -- its birth and evolution, the geology that has shaped its landscape, and its human, plant, and animal inhabitants. From the volcanic origins of Sri Lanka's spectacular jewel mines and the remarkable flora and fauna of Madagascar to the mysterious statues on Easter Island and the earth-splitting geology of Iceland, Islands takes readers on a breathtaking journey to some of the smallest -- yet most impressive -- places on the planet. The stories behind these miniature worlds are as varied as their exotic landscapes -- some are tragic, others are hopeful, but they all reveal important messages about preserving ecological balance and the consequences of how we exploit or nurture the larger island of Earth itself.
Author | : Augustus F. Sherman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Essay by Peter Mesenholler.
Author | : Mildred Teal |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1997-10-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780820319612 |
When Mildred and John Teal moved to Sapelo Island, Georgia, in 1955, they stepped back in time to a virtually undeveloped landscape of salt marsh, maritime forest, freshwater ponds, sand dunes, and beaches. Over the course of a four-year stay their careful observations of the island's unique marine ecology and wonderfully varied flora and fauna became the basis for Portrait of an Island. The island's human history dates back more than four thousand years. The lure of Sapelo has drawn many to its shores, including tobacco millionaire R. J. Reynolds, who established the University of Georgia Marine Institute there in the 1950s. Surrounded by sixteen thousand acres of pristine marsh, Sapelo offers researchers and the public a rare opportunity for environmental studies. Now a state game refuge and national estuarine sanctuary, the island remains a special haven where humans and nature quietly and peacefully coexist. Portrait of an Island is essential reading for anyone who treasures tranquility.
Author | : Rosa Park |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780993049743 |
Author | : Wendy Ewald |
Publisher | : Mack Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region, Southern |
ISBN | : 9781912339891 |
This expanded edition of Wendy Ewald's now-rare book, first published in 1985, offers a view of the rural south over the past thirty five years. It includes pictures and stories by eight of Ewald's students, now grownups. Their visions, old and new, illuminate the present and the past.
Author | : D. Scarr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780080329550 |
Author | : Eileen MOLONY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Deryck Scarr |
Publisher | : Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Collection of 13 essays about people who lived in the Pacific Islands during the past 150 years.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780820348872 |
"Exhibition Schedule, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia February 28 to May 22, 2016."