Author : John Grant
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN :
A beautifully illustrated book capturing the science, natural history, and adventure of the undersea world also reveals the behind-the-scenes work done by marine scientists and other staff at North America's top public aquariums.
Author : Ralph Nading Hill
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Aquarium animals
ISBN :
The story of Marineland, the oceanarium near St. Augustine, Florida, which first brought the sea and its inhabitants to land for all to observe and enjoy.
Author : Jacques Cousteau
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Deep diving
ISBN : 9780207955129
Early before sunrise on a clear winter morning, when the horizon reddens above a dark purple Mediterranean, I can see from my home in Monte Carlo the clearly delineated mountains of Corsica, more than 100 miles away. And at night I can see stars that are thousands of light-years away from me.
Author : Jeannie Baker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1988-05-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688063632
My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years," Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest in North Queensland, Australia. We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago, when extinct and rare animals lived in the forest and aboriginal children played there. But for how much longer will the forest still be there, he wonders? Jeannie Baker's lifelike collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to an exotic, primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now being threatened by civilization.
Author : Patrick Wright
Publisher : Repeater Books
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1912248751
Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent Evening Post. "Charles" was the name he offered to his new acquaintances. But this unexpected immigrant was actually Uwe Johnson, originally from the Baltic province of Mecklenburg in the GDR, and already famous as the leading author of a divided Germany. What caused him to abandon West Berlin and spend the last nine years of his life in Sheerness, where he eventually completed his great New York novel Anniversaries in a house overlooking the outer reaches of the Thames Estuary? And what did he mean by detecting a Òmoral utopiaÓ in a town that others, including his concerned friends, saw only as a busted slum on an island abandoned to ÒdeindustrialisationÓ and a stranded Liberty ship full of unexploded bombs? Patrick Wright, who himself abandoned north Kent for Canada a few months before Johnson arrived, returns to the Òisland that is all the worldÓ to uncover the story of the East German authorÕs English decade, and to understand why his closely observed Kentish writings continue to speak with such clairvoyance in the age of Brexit. Guided in his encounters and researches by clues left by Johnson in his own Òisland storiesÓ, the book is set in the 1970s, when North Sea oil and joining the European Economic Community seemed the last hope for bankrupt Britain. It opens out to provide an alternative version of modern British history: a history for the present, told through the rich and haunted landscapes of an often spurned downriver mudbank, with a brilliant German answer to Robinson Crusoe as its primary witness.
Author : Richard Nelson Peszka
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Broadsides
ISBN :
Author : Lewis Foreman Day
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Glass painting and staining
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Nading Hill
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Marineland (Fla.)
ISBN :
Author : Bunny Williams
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Design
ISBN : 1613129580
“America’s reigning queen of decorating.” —Southern Living “One of America’s premier interior designers.” —Garden Design Author and renowned designer Bunny Williams has been at the top of the interior design world for more than 40 years. Here she invites readers to explore La Colina, her lovely Caribbean retreat tucked into lush, tropical gardens by the sea. Williams writes “We knew we wanted a house where we would really live outside, a house where the ocean breezes would blow through, and a house that would be a place in which we could gather our friends and family and entertain easily.” The book explores every facet of the beautiful property located in the Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic—from outdoor rooms and garden plantings and design to the delightful, island-living luxury of the villa’s interiors, furnishings, and collections. Woven into each chapter are essays written by friends who have visited the property: Gil Schafer details the villa’s architecture Page Dickey tours the gardens Roxana Robinson offers a peek at a weekend stay Angus Wilkie discusses the delights of collecting Jane Garmey revels in the pleasures of cooking, food, and friends Let trailblazer and tastemaker Bunny Williams, a member of the Interior Design Hall of Fame, take you on a personal tour of this special home. In her introduction, she writes that her aim was to have this book “feel like a visit to our island retreat.” You’ll see in this lavish coffee table book filled with photographs, story, and advice that she succeeded.
Author : Chang-rae Lee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101632143
“Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea, [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lonely human heart.”—Andrew Sean Greer, The New York Times Book Review “I've never been a fan of grand hyperbolic declarations in book reviews, but faced with On Such a Full Sea, I have no choice but to ask: Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee today?”—Porochista Khakpour, The Los Angeles Times From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker,The Surrendered, and My Year Abroad, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman’s legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee’s elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class—descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China—find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan’s journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind.
