Coast Our Island Story

Author : Nicholas Crane
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409074552
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coast: Our Island Story written by Nicholas Crane and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications. And the people who have lived, worked and played on this spectacular coast - from Stone Age fishermen to seafarers, chart-makers and surfers - have an incredible tale to tell. Coast: Our Island Story is an enthralling account, sparkling with geography, history, adventure and eccentric characters, told with Nick Crane's trademark charisma and wit.

Author : H. E. Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625583745
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Island Story written by H. E. Marshall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.

Author : Nick Crane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781409074564
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coast Our Island Story written by Nick Crane and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abby Sallenger
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458759318
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island in a Storm written by Abby Sallenger and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of the 1856 hurricane which decimated Isle Derniere, an island one hundred miles off the coast of New Orleans which served as a summer resort for the wealthy, and the tragic loss of life and environmental devastation which resulted from the disaster.

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanley R. Riggs
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807878073
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle for North Carolina's Coast written by Stanley R. Riggs and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States. However, extensive barrier island segments and their associated wetlands are in jeopardy. In The Battle for North Carolina's Coast, four experts on coastal dynamics examine issues that threaten this national treasure. According to the authors, the North Carolina barrier islands are not permanent. Rather, they are highly mobile piles of sand that are impacted by sea-level rise and major storms and hurricanes. Our present development and management policies for these changing islands are in direct conflict with their natural dynamics. Revealing the urgency of the environmental and economic problems facing coastal North Carolina, this essential book offers a hopeful vision for the coast's future if we are willing to adapt to the barriers' ongoing and natural processes. This will require a radical change in our thinking about development and new approaches to the way we visit and use the coast. Ultimately, we cannot afford to lose these unique and valuable islands of opportunity. This book is an urgent call to protect our coastal resources and preserve our coastal economy.

Author : H. E. Marshall
Publisher : Smk Books
ISBN 13 : 9781604598490
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Island Story written by H. E. Marshall and published by Smk Books. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of England up to Queen Victoria's death, including a bit of myth as well as a few legends.

Author : Nicholas Crane
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297865404
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great British Journeys written by Nicholas Crane and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrepid presenter Nicholas Crane investigates eight epic journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers. Nick presents eight of the most interesting traveller-chroniclers to have explored and reported on the state of the nation. From Gerald of Wales who embarked on a seven week journey around the wild perimeter of Wales in March 1188, to HV Morton, the journalist and travel writer who crossed the length and breadth of England by car in the 1920s. Others include Celia Fiennes who started her many journeys around Britain on horseback in the late 1600s at the age of 20, Tudor antiquarian John Leland, Daniel Defoe, William Cobbett, Thomas Pennant, and William Gilpin, who travelled through the north of England by boat in 1770.

Author : Peter P. Blanchard
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584658606
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Were an Island written by Peter P. Blanchard and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple set out on a bold and vigorous quest for independence and a more essential way of life on a Maine island

Author : Robyn Mundy
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1761150227
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold Coast written by Robyn Mundy and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner Tasmanian Literary Awards –​ People's Choice Shortlisted for the Tasmanian Literary Awards –​ Premier's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize Inspired by the story of Svalbard’s first female trapper, Cold Coast is a gripping portrayal of survival within the stark beauty and perilous wilderness of the high Arctic In 1932, Wanny Woldstad, a young widow, travels to Svalbard, daring to enter the Norwegian trappers’ fiercely guarded male domain. She must prove to Anders Sæterdal, her trapping partner who makes no secret of his disdain, that a woman is fit for the task. Over the course of a Svalbard winter, Wanny and Sæterdal will confront polar bears, traverse glaciers, withstand blizzards and the dangers of sea ice, and hike miles to trap Arctic fox, all in the frigid darkness of the four-month polar night. For Wanny, the darkness hides her own deceptions that, if exposed, speak to the untenable sacrifice of a 1930s woman longing to fulfil a dream. Alongside the raw, confronting nature of the trappers’ work, is the story of a young blue Arctic fox, itself a hunter, who must eke out a living and navigate the trappers’ world if it is to survive its first Arctic winter. PRAISE FOR COLD COAST ‘[Mundy] translates the stark beauty and acerbity of the Arctic with masterly wit and fervour. This is the best kind of novel – one that takes you away from the mundanity of your plastic chair and four concrete walls.’ – Sydney Morning Herald ​‘Cold Coast is a stunning novel, rich in metaphor and symbolism...Mundy's writing is poetic and lyrical. It transports the reader to a perilous but unexpectedly luminous part of the world that most people will never visit.’ –​ The Canberra Times ​‘A brilliant feminist biographical natural history novel.’ –​ Australian Women's Weekly ‘Robyn Mundy’s Cold Coast is a remarkable achievement. It tells Woldstad’s story in gorgeously intimate prose, with page after page of stunning nature writing.’ – Books+Publishing ‘Cold Coast summons the raw beauty of Svalbard with achingly evocative prose. At once visceral and lyrical, I was totally absorbed in the story of Wanny Woldstad and her yearning for wilder freedoms.’ – Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites ‘An exquisitely written, immersive novel about wildness, survival and the incomparable exhilaration of choosing a bigger life. I was captivated from start to finish.’ – Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident and Love Objects 'Rarely has a book been so evocative of time and place. At once transporting and unsentimental, Cold Coast is as bracing as the arctic winds that sweep through its world. Its truths about love, endurance and courage are visceral and above all exhilarating, even as death hovers unsettlingly near.’ – Lucy Treloar, author of Salt Creek and Wolfe Island 'There is a magic and mystery to the isolated reaches of our world, and Mundy has bottled up its icy wonder for us to savour this summer.' – Jackie Tang, Readings Monthly