Encounters with Wales
Author : T. Robin Chapman
Publisher : Gomer Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : T. Robin Chapman
Publisher : Gomer Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Robin T. Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1995-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780846446484
Author : Alexandra Morton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307487547
In Listening to Whales, Alexandra Morton shares spellbinding stories about her career in whale and dolphin research and what she has learned from and about these magnificent mammals. In the late 1970s, while working at Marineland in California, Alexandra pioneered the recording of orca sounds by dropping a hydrophone into the tank of two killer whales. She recorded the varied language of mating, childbirth, and even grief after the birth of a stillborn calf. At the same time she made the startling observation that the whales were inventing wonderful synchronized movements, a behavior that was soon recognized as a defining characteristic of orca society. In 1984, Alexandra moved to a remote bay in British Columbia to continue her research with wild orcas. Her recordings of the whales have led her to a deeper understanding of the mystery of whale echolocation, the vocal communication that enables the mammals to find their way in the dark sea. A fascinating study of the profound communion between humans and whales, this book will open your eyes anew to the wonders of the natural world.
Author : T. Robin Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Interviews
ISBN : 9781859022863
Author : David L. Richards
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1291549668
UFOs are a worldwide phenomenon, seen and recorded in every country in the world. In UFO Wales the Author looks at the history of UFO sightings and encounters in Wales from earliest times to the present, examining some truly fascinating UFO cases in the process. Among them the famous 'Welsh Triangle' which saw Wales become the UFO capital of the world in the 1970s and the remarkable encounter between a Police Helicopter and a UFO in South Wales in 2008. The author also unearths evidence that Wales may have played host to not one but two UFO crashes. In UFO Wales you can read of dozens of UFO sightings and encounters from towns and cities right across Wales. In UFO Wales the Author also seeks to place the history of Welsh UFOs in a world context, so combining a detailed chronology of UFO activity in Wales with a history of the phenomenon in general. In UFO Wales the author also addresses what are probably the ultimate questions about this fascinating topic - 'What are UFOs and where do they come from?
Author : Peter Curson
Publisher : Arena books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1909421677
A detailed account of infectious diseases throughout Australia's history and how these affected social life and attitudes to health and reform.
Author : Pamela Petro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1956763767
For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology, immigration, ecological crises, and our new divisive politics. On this journey, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. A finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph's and Financial Times's Top 10 lists for travel writing, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.”
Author : Roger Payne
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Cetacea
ISBN :
Taking readers on a journey across the spectrum of life to discover the answers to the larger questions of life on Earth, an eminent field biologist addresses a wide range of subjects--from the purpose of the brain to the possibilities of peaceful cohabitation among the world's creatures. 9 charts.
Author : Sam Adams
Publisher : Parthian Books
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2023-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1914595084
'Letters from Wales stands alone as an invaluable guide to Welsh writing.' – Sam Young, Wales Arts Review 'In these columns, as impressive for their depth as they are for their intellectual breadth, Adams analyses the work of acclaimed Welsh writers ... with scholarly panache' – Joshua Rees, Buzz Magazine 'illuminating and entertaining' – Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters – a quarter century of work – and offers one of the most unique, independent and passionate critical voices on the writing and cultural output of Wales during this period. Here you will find erudite appreciations of the work of a wide range of recent and contemporary Welsh writers from Gillian Clarke to Roland Mathias, RS Thomas to Rhian Edwards. Alongside this, Adams offers us lyric essays to Welsh history, and clear-eyed examinations of the institutions of Welsh culture. Collected for the first time in this volume, the 'letters' are among the most significant and sustained attempts during this period to present Welsh writing to an audience throughout the UK and beyond.
Author : Martin Johnes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1847795064
The period since 1939 saw more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales developed a more assertive identity of its own and some of the apparatus of a nation state. Yet its economy floundered between boom and bust, its traditional communities were transformed and the Welsh language and other aspects of its distinctiveness were undermined by a globalizing world. Wales was also deeply divided by class, language, ethnicity, gender, religion and region. Its people grew wealthier, healthier and more educated but they were not always happier. This ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939, giving voice to ordinary people and the variety of experiences within the nation. This is a history of not just a nation, but of its residents’ hopes and fears, their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and the wider world.