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Author : Paul De Fortis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869955168
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Kingdom of Redonda, 1865-1990 written by Paul De Fortis and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Hingston
Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 1771964162
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Try Not to Be Strange written by Michael Hingston and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda—where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island’s king. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming. Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, the complete history of Redonda’s transformation from an uninhabited, guano-encrusted island into a fantastical and international kingdom of writers. With a cast of characters including forgotten sci-fi novelists, alcoholic poets, vegetarian publishers, Nobel Prize frontrunners, and the bartenders who kept them all lubricated while angling for the throne themselves, Michael Hingston details the friendships, feuds, and fantasies that fueled the creation of one of the oddest and most enduring micronations ever dreamt into being. Part literary history, part travelogue, part quest narrative, this cautionary tale about what happens when bibliomania escapes the shelves and stacks is as charming as it is peculiar—and blurs the line between reality and fantasy so thoroughly that it may never be entirely restored.
Author : Harry Hobbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009156950
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty written by Harry Hobbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political disagreement is a fact of life. It can prompt people to stand for public office and agitate for political change. Others take a different route; they start their own nation. Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty is the first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of people purporting to secede and create their own country. It analyses why micronations are not states for the purposes of international law, considers the factors that motivate individuals to separate and found their own nation, examines the legal justifications that they offer and explores the responses of recognised sovereign states. In doing so, this book develops a rich body of material through which to reflect on conventional understandings of statehood, sovereignty and legitimate authority. Authored in a lively and accessible style, Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty will be valuable reading for scholars and general audiences.
Author : Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846318904
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Surveying the American Tropics written by Maria Cristina Fumagalli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from distinguished international scholars that explore the idea of a literary geography of the American Tropics.
Author : Sarah Cameron
Publisher : Footprint Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1909268348
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Antigua, St Kitts & Montserrat Footprint Focus Guide written by Sarah Cameron and published by Footprint Travel Guides. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These islands offer perfect sandy beaches, rugged volcanic peaks and historical fortresses. Picturesque harbors and lively steel bands are the icing on the cake. FootprintFocus provides invaluable information on transport, accommodation, eating and entertainment to ensure that your trip includes the best of these beautiful islands. • Essentials section with useful advice on getting to and around Antigua & Barbuda, St Kitts & Nevis and Montserrat. • Comprehensive, up-to-date listings of where to eat, sleep and play. • Includes information on tour operators and activities, from enjoying palm-fringed beaches to hiking the volcanic peaks. • Detailed maps for the islands and their key destinations. • Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights, plus many lesser-known attractions, FootprintFocus Antigua & Barbuda, St Kitts & Nevis and Montserrat provides concise and comprehensive coverage of one of the Caribbean’s most idyllic locations.
Author : Travis Elborough
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 0711264015
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Atlas of Improbable Places written by Travis Elborough and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.
Author : Mohammad Bahareth
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462069266
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Micronations written by Mohammad Bahareth and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a Micro Nation? A micro nation can actually be referred to as new country project or a model country. The definition of a micro nation is thus rendered: "An entity that resembles a nation or a state, but which for the most part exists only on paper, on the Internet, or in the mind of its creator." Also referred to as: "Model countries and new country projects -- are entities that claim to be independent nations or states but which are unrecognized by world governments or major international organizations." Different reasons exist why micro nations are created some being extremely serious whereas others are as a result of a hobby. There are however very genuine micro nations which are made of an entire community or tribe. These small entities almost always exist as replicas of real nations as opposed to existing states. We can therefore say that these are small nations with a small geographical area as well as populations. The term micro nation can also be used synonymously with the term Fifth nation which also refers to social identity groups. Compared to micronations are macronations which are significantly larger and enjoy some territorial recognition and these are referred to as Fourth world nations. You will find many secessionist or self determination groups counted among macronations. It is also very easy to confuse micronations with those tiny nations that are recognized legitimately. These geographically small counties include countries such as Monaco, Fiji and San Marino. Micronations should not be confused with legitimately recognized, but geographically tiny nations such as Fiji, Monaco, and San Marino, for which the term microstate is more accurate and descriptive. In this book you will read about: * Overview and introduction * Categories of Micronations * List of Small Microstates * List of Physical Micronations * Top Ten Out of the Ordinary Micronations * The Most Famous Micronations * The Newest Kids on the Block * How You Can Start Your Own Micronation
Author : Gareth Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199651337
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Javier Marías's Debt to Translation written by Gareth Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Javier Marías has explained many times that working as a translator of literary works from English into Spanish helped shape him as a writer. This study explores those claims by analysing two things: firstly, his translations themselves; and secondly, seeing how those translations have left discernible traces in his own fiction.
Author : Gareth J. Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191636452
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Javier Marías's Debt to Translation written by Gareth J. Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about translation and literary influence. It takes as its subject Spain's most important contemporary novelist, Javier Marías (1951-), who worked as a literary translator for a significant portion of his early career. Since then, he has maintained that translation had a crucial impact on the development of his writing style and his literary frame of reference. It examines his claims to the influence of three writers whose works he translated, Laurence Sterne, Sir Thomas Browne, and Vladimir Nabokov. It does so by engaging in close reading of his translations, examining how he meets the linguistic, syntactic, and cultural challenges they present. His prolonged engagement with their prose is then set alongside his own novels and short stories, the better to discern precisely how and in what ways his works have been shaped by their influence and through translation. Hence this study begins by asking why Marías should have turned to translation in the cultural landscape of Spain in the 1970s and how the ideological standpoints that animated his decision affect the way he translates. His translation of Sterne's Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is set alongside his pseudo-autobiographical novel Negra espalda del tiempo (Dark Back of Time), while his translation of Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial is then analysed in tandem with that produced by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Subsequent chapters examine how Browne's prose has shaped Marías's thinking on oblivion, posterity, and time. The final chapters offer an analysis of the partial translation and palimpsest of Lolita he undertook in the early 1990s and of his most ambitious novel to date, Tu rostro mañana (Your Face Tomorrow), as a work in which characterization is underpinned by both literary allusion and the hydridization of works Marías has translated.
Author : David K. Herzberger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1855662302
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Companion to Javier Marías written by David K. Herzberger and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marías' writing, including discussion and analysis of his literary and intellectual formation, his development as a novelist and short story writer, andhis unique perspective offered in nearly twenty-five years of newspaper columns on topics ranging from religion to football. Above all, Marías is examined as a writer of fictions. As a translator of several canonical works from English to Spanish, Marías came to appreciate the preciseness of words as well as their ambiguity, their capacity to represent as well as their propensity to distort. The author examines Marías's constant awareness of how languagecan be used to construct stories as the foundation for engaging the world as well as for imagining it. The nature of Marías's storytelling, and the way in which he imagines, form the principal focus of this Companion. David K. Herzberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
