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Island on the Edge of the World
Author : Deborah Rodriguez
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0751574570
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Island on the Edge of the World written by Deborah Rodriguez and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiti. A poor country rich in courage, strength and love. As these four women are about to discover. Charlie, the rootless daughter of American missionaries, now working as a hairdresser in Northern California. But the repercussions of a traumatic childhood far from home have left her struggling for her way in life. Bea, Charlie's eccentric grandmother, who is convinced a reunion with her estranged mother will help Charlie heal. Lizbeth, a Texas widow who has never strayed too far from home. She is on a daunting journey into the unknown, searching for the grandchild she never knew existed. And Senzey, a young Haitian mother dealing with a lifetime of love and loss, who shows them the true meaning of bravery. Together they venture through the teeming, colorful streets of Port-au-Prince, into the worlds of do-gooders doing more harm than good, Vodou practitioners, artists, activists, and everyday Haitian men and women determined to survive against all odds. For Charlie, Bea, Lizbeth and Senzey, life will never be the same again . . .
Islands at the Edge of Time
Author : Gunnar Hansen
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559632515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Islands at the Edge of Time written by Gunnar Hansen and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands at the Edge of Time is the story of one man's captivating journey along America's barrier islands from Boca Chica, Texas, to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Weaving in and out along the coastlines of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina, poet and naturalist Gunnar Hansen perceives barrier islands not as sand but as expressions in time of the processes that make them. Along the way he treats the reader to absorbing accounts of those who call these islands home -- their lives often lived in isolation and at the extreme edges of existence -- and examines how the culture and history of these people are shaped by the physical character of their surroundings.
Edge of the World: Ross Island, Antarctica
Author : Charles Neider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Edge of the World: Ross Island, Antarctica written by Charles Neider and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative, part history, part reportage and part personal adventure, from the author's 2 visits to Antarctica 1969 and 1970.
Island on the Edge of the World
Author : Charles MacLean
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847674720
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Island on the Edge of the World written by Charles MacLean and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought with them money, disease and despotism. In 1930, the few remaining islanders were evacuated, no longer able to support themselves. An exploration of the life and death of the remote Hebridean society, Island on the Edge of the World is a moving account of human endeavour.
The Island Edge of America
Author : Tom Coffman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824826628
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
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Download or read book The Island Edge of America written by Tom Coffman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawaii. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawaii's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational forces that have shaped the Islands for more than a century, looking beyond the Hawaii carefully packaged for the tourist to the Hawaii of complex and conflicting identities--independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation--a wonderfully rich, diverse, and at times troubled place. With a sure grasp of political history and culture based on decades of firsthand archival research, Tom Coffman takes Hawaii's story into the twentieth century and in the process sheds new light on America's island edge.
The King at the Edge of the World
Author : Arthur Phillips
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812985508
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
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Download or read book The King at the Edge of the World written by Arthur Phillips and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Elizabeth’s spymasters recruit an unlikely agent—the only Muslim in England—for an impossible mission in a mesmerizing novel from “one of the best writers in America” (The Washington Post) “Evokes flashes of Hilary Mantel, John le Carré and Graham Greene, but the wry, tricky plot that drives it is pure Arthur Phillips.”—The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE WASHINGTON POST The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. The queen’s spymasters—hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism—fear that James is not what he appears. He has every reason to claim to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family’s Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question: What does James truly believe? It falls to Geoffrey Belloc, a secret warrior from the hottest days of England’s religious battles, to devise a test to discover the true nature of King James’s soul. Belloc enlists Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician left behind by the last diplomatic visit from the Ottoman Empire, as his undercover agent. The perfect man for the job, Ezzedine is the ultimate outsider, stranded on this cold, wet, and primitive island. He will do almost anything to return home to his wife and son. Arthur Phillips returns with a unique and thrilling novel that will leave readers questioning the nature of truth at every turn.
Island at the Edge of the World
Author : Stephen Venables
Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 : 9780747411918
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Island at the Edge of the World written by Stephen Venables and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1992-11-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Energy at the End of the World
Author : Laura Watts
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262552655
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
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Download or read book Energy at the End of the World written by Laura Watts and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world. The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Surrounded by fierce seas and shrouded by clouds and mist, the islands seem to mark the edge of the known world. And yet they are a center for energy technology innovation, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel networks, attracting the interest of venture capitalists and local communities. In this book, Laura Watts tells a story of making energy futures at the edge of the world. Orkney, Watts tells us, has been making technology for six thousand years, from arrowheads and stone circles to wave and tide energy prototypes. Artifacts and traces of all the ages—Stone, Bronze, Iron, Viking, Silicon—are visible everywhere. The islanders turned to energy innovation when forced to contend with an energy infrastructure they had outgrown. Today, Orkney is home to the European Marine Energy Centre, established in 2003. There are about forty open-sea marine energy test facilities in the world, many of which draw on Orkney expertise. The islands generate more renewable energy than they use, are growing hydrogen fuel and electric car networks, and have hundreds of locally owned micro wind turbines and a decade-old smart grid. Mixing storytelling and ethnography, empiricism and lyricism, Watts tells an Orkney energy saga—an account of how the islands are creating their own low-carbon future in the face of the seemingly impossible. The Orkney Islands, Watts shows, are playing a long game, making energy futures for another six thousand years.
The Edge of the Earth
Author : Christina Schwarz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451683677
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
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Download or read book The Edge of the Earth written by Christina Schwarz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1898, a woman forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that takes her to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of California. What she finds at the edge of the earth, hidden between the sea and the fog, will change her life irrevocably"--Dust jacket flap.
