The Island of Floating Women
Author : Batya Weinbaum
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Batya Weinbaum
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Rachel Neumeier
Publisher : Bluefire
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0440240603
The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called the Floating Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other one of the legendary island flyers.
Author : Ann L. Buttenwieser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1501716026
Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In The Floating Pool Lady, Ann L. Buttenwieser recounts her triumphant adventure that started in the bayous of Louisiana and ended with a self-sustaining, floating swimming pool moored in New York Harbor. When Buttenwieser decided something needed to be done to help revitalize the New York City waterfront, she reached into the city's nineteenth-century past for inspiration. Buttenwieser wanted New Yorkers to reestablish their connection to their riverine surroundings and she was energized by the prospect of city youth returning to the Hudson and East Rivers. What she didn't suspect was that outfitting and donating a swimming facility for free enjoyment by the public would turn into an almost-Sisyphean task. As she describes in The Floating Pool Lady, Buttenwieser battled for years with politicians and struggled with bureaucrats as she brought her "crazy" scheme to fruition. From dusty archives in the historic Battery Maritime Building to high-stakes community board meetings to tense negotiations in the Louisiana shipyard, Buttenwieser retells the improbable process that led to a pool named The Floating Pool Lady tying up to a pier at Barretto Point Park in the Bronx, ready for summer swimmers. Throughout The Floating Pool Lady, Buttenwieser raises consciousness about persistent environmental issues and the challenges of developing a constituency for projects to make cities livable in the twenty-first century. Her story and that of her floating pool function as both warning and inspiration to those who dare to dream of realizing innovative public projects in the modern urban landscape.
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2008-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765347725
Entries from the long-lost journal of Ven, a Nain youth, relate his adventures as he faces pirates and is rescued by a mermaid and a kindly sea captain who sends Ven to an inn, where he encounters fairies, ghosts, and other strange boarders.
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307829065
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
Author : Richard J. Heggen
Publisher : Richard Heggen
Page : 1227 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN :
Floating Islands in science, history, the arts and any number of sightings elsewhere
Author : Scott Riley
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1728427371
On the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. How will a group of Thai boys play soccer? After watching the World Cup on television, a group of Thai boys is inspired to form their own team. But on the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. The boys can play only twice a month on a sandbar when the tide is low enough. Everything changes when the teens join together to build their very own floating soccer field. This inspiring true story by debut author Scott Riley is gorgeously illustrated by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien. Perfect for fans of stories about sports, beating seemingly impossible odds, and places and cultures not often shown in picture books. "A compelling book for football [soccer] fans and readers seeking examples of ingenuity."—starred, Publishers Weekly
Author : Sidney Smith Rider
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Local history
ISBN :
Consisting of literary gossip, criticisms of books and local historical matters connected with Rhode Island.
Author : Boston (Mass.)
Publisher :
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 1916
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Boston (Mass.). Department of Parks
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Parks
ISBN :