Author : R. C. Nidever
Publisher : Stansbury Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,2 MB
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1935807285
R.C. Nidever's novel is based on the true story of Juana Maria, a California native American left alone on the remote San Nicolas Island of California's Channel Islands and the man who finally found her in 1835: Captain George Nidever. R.C. Nidever's story is about the encounter first described in Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphin in 1960, but told much more completely and from a different perspective.
Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395069629
Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Author : Thomas A. Holm
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2019-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781099752490
Shrouded Heritage: Island of the Blue Dolphins describes the quest of a father and daughter to reveal the true events that inspired Scott O'Dell's most beloved novel, and detail the life and legacy of the real woman who inspired the character O'Dell named Karana. This remarkable saga weaves together a captivating narrative derived from dozens of historic documents, as well as from accounts of Indigenous People who passionately assert their ancestral bond to the actual island that O'Dell fictionalized in his literary masterpiece. During this saga, bitter conflicts arise as suppressed evidence is revealed by the author that challenges academics who then must fight to retain thousands of human remains taken from the real Island of the Blue Dolphins. Their opponents are Indigenous Peoples who wish to rebury their ancestors on that island in order to return their souls to heaven among the Milky Way.
Author : Lawrence Thornton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 1999-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520220684
Ghost Woman explores the history and tragedy of colonialization in California through the life of a remarkable Native American woman.
Author : Joseph R. Geraci
Publisher : National Aquarium in Baltimore
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Marine mammals
ISBN : 0977460908
Comprehensive manual for understanding and carrying out marine mammal rescue activities for stranded seals, manatees, dolphins, whales, or sea otters.
Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374217556
A collection of stories in which an Austrian writer analyzes the craft of writing and describes the people he met over the years. One of them is a former Miss Yugoslavia with whom he had a romance.
Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520289374
This is the first authoritative edition of one of the most significant childrenÕs books of the twentieth century. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal,ÊIsland of the Blue DolphinsÊtells the story of a girl left alone for eighteen years in the aftermath of violent encounters with Europeans on her home island off the coast of Southern California. This special edition includes two excised chapters, published here for the first time, as well as a critical introduction and essays that offer new background on the archaeological, legal, and colonial histories of Native peoples in California.ÊSara L. Schwebel explores the composition history and editorial decisions made by author Scott OÕDell that ensured the success ofÊIsland of the Blue DolphinsÊat a time when second-wave feminism, the civil rights movement, and multicultural education increasingly influenced which books were taught. This edition also considers how readers might approach the book today, when new archaeological evidence is emerging about the ÒLone Woman of San Nicolas Island,Ó on whom OÕDellÕs story is based, and Native peoples are engaged in the reclamation of indigenous histories and ongoing struggles for political sovereignty.
Author : Hugo Reid
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 1926
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Mark Purcell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300248687
Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete with engaging anecdotes about owners and librarians, the book features fascinating information on acquisition bordering on obsession, the process of designing library architecture, and the care (and neglect) of collections. The author also disputes the notion that these libraries were merely for show, arguing that many of them were profoundly scholarly, assembled with meticulous care, and frequently used for intellectual pursuits. For those who love books and the libraries in which they are collected and stored, The Country House Library is an essential volume to own.
Author : Sara L. Schwebel
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 0826517927
The classroom canon of young adult novels in historical context
