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Author: Barbara Wall La Rocque Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1770706097 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 315
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Wolfe Island begins with the emergence of islands at the end of the last ice age and moves through the many centuries of First Nations habitation to the era of French exploration and the fur trading, the arrival of the earliest British settlers and the United Empire Loyalists, up to current time. The development and decline of industry, the evolution of facilities, land title frustrations, and the emergence of a strong sense of identity among the inhabitants are featured, along with a wealth of anecdotes based on colourful and eccentric personalities. This extensively researched history of Wolfe Island is a treasure trove for history buffs.
Author: Barbara Wall La Rocque Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1770706097 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 315
Book Description
Wolfe Island begins with the emergence of islands at the end of the last ice age and moves through the many centuries of First Nations habitation to the era of French exploration and the fur trading, the arrival of the earliest British settlers and the United Empire Loyalists, up to current time. The development and decline of industry, the evolution of facilities, land title frustrations, and the emergence of a strong sense of identity among the inhabitants are featured, along with a wealth of anecdotes based on colourful and eccentric personalities. This extensively researched history of Wolfe Island is a treasure trove for history buffs.
Author: Steven Roger Fischer Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1780230532 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 338
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When Lost’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center of imagined worlds, secluded and sometimes mystical locales filled with strange creatures and savage populations. The cannibals, raptors, and smoke monsters that exist on the islands of popular culture aside, the more than one million islands and islets on the planet are indeed small , geological, biological, and cultural laboratories. From Britain to Japan, from the Galapagos to Manhattan, this book roams the planet to provide the first global introduction to these waterlocked landforms. Longtime island dweller Steven Roger Fischer shows that, since time began, islands have been one of the primary birthplaces for plants, animals, and proto-humans. These eyots of stone and sand—whether in ocean, lake, or river—fostered the human race, and Fischer recounts how humanity then exploited these remarkable habitats as stepping stones to global dominion. He explores island economics, warfare, and politics, and he examines the role they have played in literature, art and psychology. At the same time, he sparks our imagination with visions of islands—from Atlantis to Tahiti, Treasure Island to Hawaii. Ultimately, he reveals, these isolated mini-worlds are a measure of humankind itself. An engaging account of the islets that have enriched, lured, terrified, and inspired us, Islands shines new light on these cradles of earth—and human—history.
Author: Carol Newman Cronin Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1631528653 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 392
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Loner James Malloy is a ferry captain—or used to be, until he was unceremoniously fired and replaced by a girl named Courtney Farris. Now, instead of piloting Brenton Island’s daily lifeline to the glitzy docks of Newport, Rhode Island, James spends his days beached, bitter, and bored. When he discovers a private golf course staked out across wilderness sacred to his dying best friend, a Narragansett Indian, James is determined to stop such “improvements.” But despite Brenton’s nickname as “Cooperation Island,” he’s used to working solo. To keep rocky bluffs, historic trees, and ocean shoreline open to all, he’ll have to learn to cooperate with other islanders—including Captain Courtney, who might just morph from irritant to irresistible once James learns a secret that’s been kept from him for years. This salt-sprayed fourth novel by 2004 Olympic Sailor Carol Newman Cronin celebrates wilderness and water, open space and open-mindedness, and the redemptive power of neighborly cooperation.
Author: Terrence Pershall Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1662474253 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 332
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Migration is book 3 in the Feet of the Nevis trilogy. This is where the story begins and sets the stage for the future of the inhabitants of Orus. If some of the problems faced on Orus sound familiar, they are. I have always believed that a good story is better than a good lecture. That being said, it is my hope that my fiction does not become a reality. Our politicians need to become leaders, not the other way around. We as adults and children need to pay attention to what is happening to our world and be conscious of squandering the resources we have been blessed with. I hope that you find this work entertaining and that the message resonates. Sager is the central character that ties the three books together. If you’ve read Feet of the Nevis and A Son’s Journey, Migration will answer all those lingering questions. Follow Sager and his fellow travelers as they take a journey driven by desperation and hope for a new and better life. Ever since stories have been told and handed down from generation to generation, there have been tales of beings of higher intelligence or otherworldly powers. The Bible talks of the Nephilim, the Greeks and Romans spoke of the Titans, and the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas carved glyphs of otherworldly figures. Perhaps they came from Orus or somewhere similar.
Author: Nathaniel Altman Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402713712 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 200
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Based on the author’s 30 years of research on the ancient art of palmistry, this is a truly encyclopedic introduction to the tradition. More than 400 diagrams and handprints present a thorough “show of hands,” even including information on how one can change the lines on the palms. Five major topics are covered: Western hand analysis; modern psychological aspects; the basics of Indian palmistry; Chinese hand reading; and practical guidance on interpretation.
Author: Connery Chappell Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd ISBN: 0719824435 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 173
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At the start of the Second World War there were estimated to be 75,000 'enemy aliens' living in Britain, each a potential security risk. To screen these, Enemy Alien Tribunals were set up, with the first tribunal judging only 569 cases serious enough to warrant internment. The Isle of man was chosen as somewhere secure enough to hold them. But when Italy entered the war in 1940, the tribunals' workload grew and, by the end of the year, the number of enemy aliens on the island had risen to 14,000. Who were these internees? How did they cope with being interned? Did any try to escape? What was daily life like inside the camps? How great a risk did they really pose? With the use of diaries, newspapers and personal testimonies, Island of Barbed Wire looks at the selection, arrival, living conditions and, ultimately, repatriation, of the internees. Their lives and the live of the Manx people they came into contact with would never be the same when this popular holiday isle was transformed into an internment camp for the duration of the war. And even now the question remains - was the policy of internment ever justified? Island of Barbed Wire was the first thorough examination into one of the more controversial happenings of World War Two.
Author: Nathaniel Altman Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402748851 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 308
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The key to your future—and your present and past—is in the palm of your hand! Nathaniel Altman, best-selling author of The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Palmistry, gathers the wisdom he has obtained from decades of practice to produce this comprehensive volume. He answers such questions as: How can the features of the hand tell palm readers as much as the lines on its surface? In what ways can you use a palm reading to change the course of your own future? There’s information on using palmistry to explore relationships and sexuality, spiritual fulfillment, and even health. Plus, there are solid technical details on the art and practice of reading palms for others. For experienced and beginning palm readers alike, this is an authoritative collection of thoughts from a master.
Author: Brandon Presser Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1541758595 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 323
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For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly two decades of isolation its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape; a real-life Lord of the Flies, rife with depravity and deception. Seven generations later, the island’s diabolical past still looms over its 48 residents; descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. Only a rusty cargo ship connects Pitcairn with the rest of the world, just four times a year. In 2018, Brandon Presser rode the freighter to live among its present-day families; two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. While on the island, he pieced together Pitcairn’s full story: an operatic saga that holds all who have visited in its mortal clutch—even the author. Told through vivid historical and personal narrative, The Far Land goes beyond the infamous Mutiny on the Bounty, offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it’s not so different from our own.
Author: Barbara Wall La Rocque
Author: Barbara Wall La Rocque
Author: Connery Chappell
Author: Steven Roger Fischer
Author: Dr. Bhojraj Dwivedi
Author: Carol Newman Cronin
Author: Terrence Pershall
Author: Nathaniel Altman
Author: Connery Chappell
Author: Nathaniel Altman
Author: Brandon Presser