Author: Bill Belleville
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325927
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A collection of writings by the award-winning environmental journalist and filmmaker about his wanderings takes the reader to locations such as the submerged pirate city of Port Royal, Jamaica, and an offshore Florida coral reef in quest of the wondrous and undiscovered.
Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes & Golden Sharks
Author: Bill Belleville
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325927
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A collection of writings by the award-winning environmental journalist and filmmaker about his wanderings takes the reader to locations such as the submerged pirate city of Port Royal, Jamaica, and an offshore Florida coral reef in quest of the wondrous and undiscovered.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325927
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A collection of writings by the award-winning environmental journalist and filmmaker about his wanderings takes the reader to locations such as the submerged pirate city of Port Royal, Jamaica, and an offshore Florida coral reef in quest of the wondrous and undiscovered.
Shark
Author: Dean Crawford
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861893253
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In Shark, Dean Crawford explores the long relationship between shark and man, revealing that behind the fearsome caricature is a complex animal that deserves a thoughtful reconsideration.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861893253
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In Shark, Dean Crawford explores the long relationship between shark and man, revealing that behind the fearsome caricature is a complex animal that deserves a thoughtful reconsideration.
Nature's Writers
Author: Donald S. Clark
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 084783199X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A photographic celebration of the landscapes that have influenced some of America’s most important nature writers—from John Muir to Terry Tempest Williams to Barbara Kingsolver. Since 2019, Donald S. Clark has documented the places that have been instrumental in influencing the lives and words of both historic and contemporary nature and environmental writers throughout the United States. While we have always felt their passionate connection to their own environments, no book has ever made this visual connection between writers and their land before—the relationship between prose and place. Featuring more than 40 of America’s most important writers, the content is as far-reaching as America itself: from sea to shining sea, forest to prairie, and mountain to coastline. Accompanying each gallery of stunning photography is a selected excerpt by the writer about their land. With the increasingly noticeable effects of climate change, the significance of these writers—and their personal connections to the environment—is even more timely. This unique and compelling story of the land and how it has inspired some of our greatest poets and authors will make a wonderful gift for budding environmentalists, students of nature writing, or anyone interested in conservation.
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 084783199X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A photographic celebration of the landscapes that have influenced some of America’s most important nature writers—from John Muir to Terry Tempest Williams to Barbara Kingsolver. Since 2019, Donald S. Clark has documented the places that have been instrumental in influencing the lives and words of both historic and contemporary nature and environmental writers throughout the United States. While we have always felt their passionate connection to their own environments, no book has ever made this visual connection between writers and their land before—the relationship between prose and place. Featuring more than 40 of America’s most important writers, the content is as far-reaching as America itself: from sea to shining sea, forest to prairie, and mountain to coastline. Accompanying each gallery of stunning photography is a selected excerpt by the writer about their land. With the increasingly noticeable effects of climate change, the significance of these writers—and their personal connections to the environment—is even more timely. This unique and compelling story of the land and how it has inspired some of our greatest poets and authors will make a wonderful gift for budding environmentalists, students of nature writing, or anyone interested in conservation.
Islands Magazine
Losing It All to Sprawl
Author: Bill Belleville
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 081304796X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Losing It All to Sprawl is the poignant chronicle of award-winning nature writer Bill Belleville and how he came to understand and love his historic Cracker farmhouse and "relic" neighborhood in central Florida, even as it was all wiped out from under him. Belleville's narrative is eloquent, informed, and impassioned, a saga in which tractors and backhoes trample through the woods next to his home in order to build the backbone of Florida sprawl--the mall. As heavy machinery encircles Belleville and his community--the noise growing louder and closer, displacing everything Belleville has called home for the past fifteen years--he tells a story that is much older, 10,000 years older. The story stretches back to the Timucua and the Mayaca living in harmony with Florida's environment; the conquistadors who expected much from, but also feared, this "land of flowers"; the turn-of-the-century tourists "modernizing" and "climatizing" the state; the original Cracker families who lived in Belleville's farmhouse. In stark contrast to this millennia-long transformation is the whiplash of unbridled growth and development that threatens the nearby wilderness of the Wekiva River system, consuming Belleville's home and, ultimately, his very sense of place. In Florida, one of the nation's fastest growing states (and where local and state governments encourage growth), balancing use with preservation is an uphill battle. Sprawl spreads into the countryside, consuming not just natural lands but Old Florida neighborhoods and their unique history. In Losing It All to Sprawl, Belleville accounts for the impacts--social, political, natural, personal--that a community in the crosshairs of unsustainable growth ultimately must bear, but he also offers Floridians, and anyone facing the blight of urban confusion, the hope that can be found in the rediscovery and appreciation of the natural landscape.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 081304796X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Losing It All to Sprawl is the poignant chronicle of award-winning nature writer Bill Belleville and how he came to understand and love his historic Cracker farmhouse and "relic" neighborhood in central Florida, even as it was all wiped out from under him. Belleville's narrative is eloquent, informed, and impassioned, a saga in which tractors and backhoes trample through the woods next to his home in order to build the backbone of Florida sprawl--the mall. As heavy machinery encircles Belleville and his community--the noise growing louder and closer, displacing everything Belleville has called home for the past fifteen years--he tells a story that is much older, 10,000 years older. The story stretches back to the Timucua and the Mayaca living in harmony with Florida's environment; the conquistadors who expected much from, but also feared, this "land of flowers"; the turn-of-the-century tourists "modernizing" and "climatizing" the state; the original Cracker families who lived in Belleville's farmhouse. In stark contrast to this millennia-long transformation is the whiplash of unbridled growth and development that threatens the nearby wilderness of the Wekiva River system, consuming Belleville's home and, ultimately, his very sense of place. In Florida, one of the nation's fastest growing states (and where local and state governments encourage growth), balancing use with preservation is an uphill battle. Sprawl spreads into the countryside, consuming not just natural lands but Old Florida neighborhoods and their unique history. In Losing It All to Sprawl, Belleville accounts for the impacts--social, political, natural, personal--that a community in the crosshairs of unsustainable growth ultimately must bear, but he also offers Floridians, and anyone facing the blight of urban confusion, the hope that can be found in the rediscovery and appreciation of the natural landscape.
The Publishers Weekly
The Best Travel Writing 2006
Author: James O'Reilly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932361315
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
For readers planning to spend time in a foreign locale, wanting to reminisce about a favorite trip, or just plain interested in the world, this volume provides over 25 of the best travel pieces and gripping stories from emerging and established authors.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932361315
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
For readers planning to spend time in a foreign locale, wanting to reminisce about a favorite trip, or just plain interested in the world, this volume provides over 25 of the best travel pieces and gripping stories from emerging and established authors.
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1884
Book Description
Book Review Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.