Author : Franko Figueiredo
Publisher : Medina Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781911487647
Based on deeply personal testimonies and factual research, this book presents a rich and diverse portrayal of Isle of Wight LGBTQ+ history.
Author : Tom Horton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393039382
A classic of Chesapeake Bay literature, Tom Horton's An Island Out of Time chronicles the three years Horton and his family spent on Smith Island, a marshy archipelago in the middle of Maryland's famous estuary. The result is an intimate portrait of a deeply traditional community that lived much as their ancestors did three hundred years before, attuned to the habits of blue crab, oyster, and waterfowl. In a new afterword for this edition, Horton brings the story of Smith Island, and its people, up to the present.
Author : Geraldo Rivera
Publisher : Parents Magazine Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Discusses the history, people, and culture of this island commonwealth and the life-style and problems of the Puerto Ricans who have migrated to the mainland in search of jobs.
Author : Bruce Berger
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780816519026
Eight hundred miles long, Baja California is the remotest region of the Sonoran desert, a land of volcanic cliffs, glistening beaches, fantastical boojum trees, and some of the greatest primitive murals in the Western Hemisphere. In this book, Berger recounts tales from his three decades in this extraordinary place, enriching his account with the peninsula's history, its politics, and its probable future--rendering a striking panorama of this land so close to the United States, so famous and so little known.
Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 26,32 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 : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443428582
While shipwrecked on the island of Pala, Will Farnaby, a disenchanted journalist, discovers a utopian society that has flourished for the past 120 years. Although he at first disregards the possibility of an ideal society, as Farnaby spends time with the people of Pala his ideas about humanity change. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Author : Celia Thaxter
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2008-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1429014296
Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) was born in Portsmouth, NH. When she was four, her father became the lighthouse keeper on White Island in the Isles of Shoals. After resigning his post eight years later, he built a resort hotel on Appledore Island in Maine. The first of its kind on the New England coast, the hotel became a gathering place for writers and artists during the latter half of the 19th century. In her last year of life, Celia published this work, in which she lovingly describes her Appledore garden and its flowers. The flowers she grew in her cutting garden filled her own rooms and those of the hotel, and this work became famous for its descriptions of the old-fashioned flowers she grew there. Her island garden, a plot that measured 15 feet square, has been re-created and is open to visitors.
Author : Peter P. Blanchard
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584658606
A couple set out on a bold and vigorous quest for independence and a more essential way of life on a Maine island
Author : Mildred Teal
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : 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 : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1590302532
This volume is a stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the richest, fullest and noblest life. --Chicago Tribune
