Beyond the Green Horizon
Author : Shirley Eber
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
ISBN :
Author : Shirley Eber
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Adaptation (Biology)
ISBN :
Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1625793146
Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy.... But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman is definitely not a good idea.... With an all new afterword by Tony Daniel. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Author : Carolina Celas
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9783899558401
Just like the ungraspable horizon, each of us is limitless. Uncover the infinite potential of your imagination with Beyond the Horizon.
Author : Laura Charlesworth
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Barry Lopez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0525656219
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.
Author : Eoin Lane
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982641568
She points the lens of the camera. The artist turns his head slightly. The light catches his brow and his silver-white hair. She snaps. He is lit like a Vermeer. Ireland. County Wexford, 1951. A father and son go swimming in the sea. The waves crash. The wind rises. Only one comes back—Colin, aged six. His mother, Eileen, runs to seek help, but this is a tragedy that will haunt them forever. Colin won’t speak a word. He is mute and struggling to cope. But Eileen can see he has a talent for painting. She shows him his father’s artwork and gives him a print of a Paul Henry landscape, and slowly, with her encouragement, he begins to follow his dream. Years later on Inishbofin island off the west coast of Ireland, out walking with his dog on the sand, Colin meets Laura, a young woman on holiday, and a tentative friendship starts to develop. Gradually his past comes to life in a story filled with love and frustration, loss and betrayal, but above all with the passion he has held through his life for the light in the sea and the sky and his search for that distant shore where the sky sweeps down to the water. One man. The sea. One painting.
Author : Brian Fagan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1408833506
We know the tales of Columbus and Captain Cook, yet much earlier mariners made equally bold and world-changing voyages. In Beyond the Blue Horizon, archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring quest to master the oceans, the planet's most mysterious terrain. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared to sail beyond the horizon, Fagan vividly explains how our mastery of the oceans changed the course of human history. What drove humans to risk their lives on open water? How did early sailors unlock the secrets of winds, tides, and the stars they steered by? What were the earliest ocean crossings like? With compelling detail, Fagan reveals how seafaring evolved so that the forbidding realms of the sea gods were transformed from barriers into a nexus of commerce and cultural exchange. From bamboo rafts in the Java Sea to triremes in the Aegean, from Norse longboats in the North Atlantic to sealskin kayaks in Alaska, Fagan crafts a captivating narrative of humanity's urge to challenge the unknown and seek out distant shores.
Author : Greg Neale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134189656
This book suggests ways in which we can enjoy our holidays and our travel even more: by becoming green travellers. It also suggests different types of green holidays and encourages some of the better examples of good environmental practice in holidaymaking around the world.
Author : Andrew Holden
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415207188
Considers the relationship that exists between tourism, society and the environment. It discusses how the tourism industry markets environments and suggests ways in which the economics of tourism can be adopted to aid conservation.
Author : Amma Darko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 183793049X
Beyond the Horizon is the heart-wrenching debut novel by award-winning author Ammo Darko, telling the tale of a young Ghanaian woman tricked into a life of exploitation by her husband. Mara stares in the mirror, searching for the woman she used to know. The sweet, innocent woman that was excited to marry the man her father chose for her, to start a family and live in a house of her own. But her husband had other plans. Determined to make his fortune in Europe, Mara's husband expects her to sacrifice everything to make his dreams come true – but the sacrifice is more than she could ever have imagined... Beyond the Horizon is a gripping and provocative story of the plight of African women, the lies they were sold about life in Europe, and the false hopes of those they leave behind.