Return To Patagonia

Author : Rosemary J. Goring
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to Patagonia written by Rosemary J. Goring and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin's tale of a journey from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego, is one of the most popular travel books of all time and has fostered extraordinary interest in this remote region at the southern tip of South America, the "Uttermost End of the World". Rosemary Goring's account, Return to Patagonia, followed a similar itinerary to Bruce Chatwin, but where he was travelling through terra incognita she was returning to the land of her childhood. She homes in on Puerto San Julian and on the nearby estancia (ranch) where she spent her early years. Return to Patagonia includes both childhood memories of the farm community and the recollections of her family who owned and managed it for more than 80 years. It also breaks new ground. While much has been written about the Welsh settlement at Trelew in Argentine Patagonia, there is little about the English and Scottish sheep farmers who crossed from the Falkland Islands to colonize the barren mainland further south. The book, which includes an account of an earlier visit to the Falklands, explores the links between Patagonia and its neighbouring islands. Having met people who were caught up on both sides in the Falklands War, Rosemary Goring is able to offer another perspective on the conflict.

Author : C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1845640616
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patagonia, a Forgotten Land written by C. A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the history of Patagonia from its discovery by Magellan to recent times. Since its early exploration Patagonia has been associated with conditions of extreme hardship and suffering. Men and ships were lost in the dangerous waters of the Straits of Tierra del Fuego, giving rise to tales of mysterious cities populated by the shipwrecked sailors, survivors of the many failed expeditions. Early Spanish attempts to colonize Patagonia ended in failure and the region remained largely uninhabited until the arrival of the Welsh in 1865. Their peaceful coexistence with the natives ended abruptly when the Argentine Army entered Patagonia and took over the Indian lands, which were promptly distributed to new settlers. As a new frontier society, Patagonia could not fail to attract its share of desperadoes and adventurers, the most notorious of whom are described in the book, including gold prospectors, hunters and bandits such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The volume also narrates the anarchist’s struggles that took place in Patagonia at the beginning of the 1900s and the unsuccessful attempt by Perón’s government to convert Argentina into a nuclear power. In the early 1800’s the French traveller and explorer D’Orbigny said, " Perhaps there is no region within the world of which so much has been said, but so little is known." Patagonia is still a largely unknown and uninhabited place, but it does have a rich history as described in this book.

Author : Phil Corr
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666713937
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Titus Coan written by Phil Corr and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Phil Corr provides a tour de force by writing for both the biography reader and the scholar. In this hybrid work he vividly portrays the life of Titus Coan, “the pen painter,” while also filling gaps in the scholarship. These gaps include: the volume itself (no full-length published book has previously been written on Titus Coan) and the following chapters—“Patagonia,” “Peace,” and “Other Religions.” Using the unpublished thesis by Margaret Ehlke and many other primary and secondary sources, he significantly deepens the understanding of Coan in many areas. This book is presented to the future reader for the purposes of edification and increasing the scholarship of this man who lived an incredible life during incredible times.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standard history of Essex County, Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520246845
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beasts of Eden written by David Rains Wallace and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A general interest exploration of mammal evolution and the scientific history of major fossil discoveries, their discoverers, and changing ideas about these extinct "beasts."It's both a grand mystery and a Cinderella story: mammal origins were one of 19th-century science's major enigmas, and mammals outlasted the more abundant dinosaurs to give birth to us.

Author : Paulina Szmydke-Cacciapalle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351200534
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Jeans Green written by Paulina Szmydke-Cacciapalle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumers spend approximately $93 billion on denim products every year. This consumption comes at a great cost, with thousands of litres of fresh water, hazardous chemicals and energy contributing to just one pair of jeans, leaving the environment and the industry vulnerable to pollution and climate change. Using facts, figures, case studies and anecdotes, this book investigates why the industry has been so slow to adopt green technologies and offers practical solutions to designers and fashion executives who want to switch to cleaner manufacturing, including those working in the ‘fast fashion’ sector. It also offers advice to the eco-conscious consumer who wants to purchase denim more sustainably. Considering the full lifecycle of a pair of jeans from the cotton crop to disposal, it presents examples of how to go green at different stages. This book will be of great interest to fashion students and researchers, as well as designers, fashion executives, policy-makers and anyone who comes into contact with the world of denim.

Author : Luis Roniger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190693967
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exile, Diaspora, and Return written by Luis Roniger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Exile and Post-Exile in Analytical Perspective -- Chapter 2 - Escape, Deportation and Exile: The Contours of Institutionalized Exclusion -- Chapter 3 - Exile and Diaspora Politics: Mobilizing to Undo Exclusion -- Chapter 4 - Diaspora and Home Country Initiatives, Transnational Networks and State Policies -- Chapter 5 - Surviving Authoritarianism, Contributing to the Agenda of Democratization -- Chapter 6 - Undoing Exile? Remembering, Imagining, Envisioning -- Chapter 7 - The Transformational Role of Culture and Education: Impacting the Future -- Chapter 8 - Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship -- Conclusions -- About the Authors -- Index

Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awards [of The] First Division written by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board and published by . This book was released on with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sergio F. Vizcaíno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139576410
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia written by Sergio F. Vizcaíno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal exposures of the Santa Cruz Formation in southern Patagonia have been a fertile ground for recovery of Early Miocene vertebrates for more than 100 years. This volume presents a comprehensive compilation of important mammalian groups which continue to thrive today. It includes the most recent fossil finds as well as important new interpretations based on ten years of fieldwork by the authors. A key focus is placed on the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment during the time of deposition in the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (MMCO) between twenty and fifteen million years ago. The authors present the first reconstruction of what climatic conditions were like and present important new evidence of the geochronological age, habits and community structures of fossil bird and mammal species. Academic researchers and graduate students in paleontology, paleobiology, paleoecology, stratigraphy, climatology and geochronology will find this a valuable source of information about this fascinating geological formation.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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