A Year On The Bog

Author : Andy McBean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904915195
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year on the Bog written by Andy McBean and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man. One stopwatch. 12 months. 273 toilets. His girlfriend thought he was crazy. He couldn't bring himself to tell his family. Everyone thought he would fail. But: Andy McBean was undeterred. After Everest and the deep chasms of the ocean, this is perhaps the final, unconquered frontier. Until now...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year ..., Abridg'd and Dispos'd Under General Heads written by and published by . This book was released on 1731 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melanie Giles
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526150174
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog bodies written by Melanie Giles and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. But, as this book argues, the bodies must be resituated within a turbulent world of endemic violence and change. Reinterpreting the latest continental research and new discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking ‘cold case’ forensic study of Worsley Man, Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’, it brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. The book also argues that these remains do not just pose practical conservation problems but also philosophical dilemmas, compounded by the critical debate on if – and how – they should be displayed.

Author : Karin Sanders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734048
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination written by Karin Sanders and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few centuries, northern Europe’s bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary—and ongoing—cultural journey. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and science as material metaphors for such concepts as trauma, nostalgia, and identity. Sigmund Freud, Joseph Beuys, Seamus Heaney, and other major figures have used them to reconsider fundamental philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and scientific concerns. Exploring this intellectual spectrum, Sanders contends that the power of bog bodies to provoke such a wide range of responses is rooted in their unique status as both archeological artifacts and human beings. They emerge as corporeal time capsules that transcend archaeology to challenge our assumptions about what we can know about the past. By restoring them to the roster of cultural phenomena that force us to confront our ethical and aesthetic boundaries, Bodies in the Bog excavates anew the question of what it means to be human.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Cranberry Growers' Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Cranberry Growers' Association written by American Cranberry Growers' Association and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198217336X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fen, Bog and Swamp written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment-by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth's survival, and in four illuminating parts, Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire, and America's Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands-the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is "an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important" (Bill McKibben)"--

Author : Wayne V. Miller
Publisher : Wayne V. Miller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bog Monster of Booker Creek written by Wayne V. Miller and published by Wayne V. Miller. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extended letter to his son ten years in the future, John Densch chronicles how he and his family slid into a media circus, one in which a middle-school science project became a national joke. With the unexplained disappearance of a local girl, the joke takes an ominous turn. John finds himself in a cauldron of competing world-views, from the paranormal to the ultra-rational to the paranoid. As he waits for life to return to normal, he becomes more and more absorbed by the stories he tells himself, and realizes that he must finally acknowledge the tale that defines his life"--Bog Monster website, as viewed on June 28, 2019

Author : Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1366 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Díosbóireachtaí Párlaiminte written by Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Button
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783063270
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frog Meets a Bog Beast! written by Linda Button and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip to the bog, where there may be low-lying fog, to see if you can meet the beast from the Far East! Frog Meets a Bog Beast is a delightful tale with a twist, combining beautiful images with a rhyming swing. This first printed book in the ‘My Animal Puzzle Book Series’ sets the scene for a collection of thoughtful, entertaining stories. Bog life was simple but never dull for Frog. It was home sweet home with lots of moss and Frog was boss. It was never busy or ever smelt fishy. Frog loved his own company, licking flies from the skies or hunting in the ground where worms, beetles or slugs could all be found. Every day, Frog collected these delicious ‘sweet’ treats to eat from the peat. Lots of flavour to savour! Being green and so unseen gave him a great hiding or canopy screen. But a bizarre creature with odd features made Frog freeze at the knees! Frog decided to be brave, though the outcome could be grave. Keeping still was not Frog’s free will and it really felt no thrill. Was this creature real and should Frog be in fear..? With words and pictures that can be enjoyed both visually and audibly, this short story encourages communication skills and courage together with a theme of friendship. It is more than a picture book! A mini ‘Bog Field Guide’ and ‘How To Make Your Own Frog’ craft activity are also included. Suitable for adult supported reading, early readers and children aged 4-8, it raises thoughts on courage, friendship, nature and exploring different environments.