Author: Matthew E. Pointon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244955794
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
An account of Matt Pointon's 2014 exploration of Ireland taking in Dublin, Bru na Boinne, Clonmacnoise, Athlone, Westport, Achill Island, Croagh Patrick, Connemera and Galway.
Exploring Camano Island
Author: Val Schroeder
Publisher: History & Guide
ISBN: 9781626193642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A history and guide for Washington State's Camano Island"--
Publisher: History & Guide
ISBN: 9781626193642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A history and guide for Washington State's Camano Island"--
On the Other Island
Author: Matthew E. Pointon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244955794
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
An account of Matt Pointon's 2014 exploration of Ireland taking in Dublin, Bru na Boinne, Clonmacnoise, Athlone, Westport, Achill Island, Croagh Patrick, Connemera and Galway.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244955794
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
An account of Matt Pointon's 2014 exploration of Ireland taking in Dublin, Bru na Boinne, Clonmacnoise, Athlone, Westport, Achill Island, Croagh Patrick, Connemera and Galway.
Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes]
Author: William James Mills
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576074234
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576074234
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.
Streets
Author: Jason Wordie
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622095631
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In this book, Jason Wordie takes the reader on fifty tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island ranging from Central through Wan Chai, to Shau Kei Wan then to Shek O, along the south coast from Stanley to Aberdeen, completing a circuit of the Island through Pok Fu Lam, Kennedy Town to Sheung Wan. Each place is introduced with an essay that describes the area and the way it has changed, then the reader is taken on a walk around the area's streets with the important, interesting, curious and historically illuminating sites described and illustrated.
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622095631
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In this book, Jason Wordie takes the reader on fifty tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island ranging from Central through Wan Chai, to Shau Kei Wan then to Shek O, along the south coast from Stanley to Aberdeen, completing a circuit of the Island through Pok Fu Lam, Kennedy Town to Sheung Wan. Each place is introduced with an essay that describes the area and the way it has changed, then the reader is taken on a walk around the area's streets with the important, interesting, curious and historically illuminating sites described and illustrated.
Exploring the Other Island
Author: John Turner
Publisher: Harbor Electronic Pub
ISBN: 9781932916348
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
"A singularly effective guide. Inspired concept. Highly recommended " George Plimpton noted on the first edition of John Turner's classic guide to the natural world of Long Island. Now Turner, one of New York's most knowledgeable and eloquent naturalists, has produced a new edition, greatly expanded and thoroughly updated. With more than 80 photos by leading nature photographers and 24 line drawings by artist Maria T. Hoffman, the new edition offers a rich experience of the "Other" Long Island-the one far removed from the malls and highways, developments and office parks. It's remarkable that so much of the natural world remains to explore in this limited space that is also home to nearly eight million people (as well the native fauna Turner so affectionately describes). Turner discusses nearly 300 species of flora and fauna that call Long Island home-an abundance that is due in no small part to the island's unusually varied ecology. Exploring the Other Island offers 41 chapters and 14 additional essays divided by season. But it is also truly a guidebook. Each section concludes with notes on Where to see what has been discussed, and When. The Index of Species is a valuable reference. The Index of Locations lists a remarkable 116 local, county, state, and national parks and other destinations. If you find yourself, for example, in Caumsett State Park just turn to the Locations Index to discover what to look for. There are also four appendixes to guide you to further study.
Publisher: Harbor Electronic Pub
ISBN: 9781932916348
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
"A singularly effective guide. Inspired concept. Highly recommended " George Plimpton noted on the first edition of John Turner's classic guide to the natural world of Long Island. Now Turner, one of New York's most knowledgeable and eloquent naturalists, has produced a new edition, greatly expanded and thoroughly updated. With more than 80 photos by leading nature photographers and 24 line drawings by artist Maria T. Hoffman, the new edition offers a rich experience of the "Other" Long Island-the one far removed from the malls and highways, developments and office parks. It's remarkable that so much of the natural world remains to explore in this limited space that is also home to nearly eight million people (as well the native fauna Turner so affectionately describes). Turner discusses nearly 300 species of flora and fauna that call Long Island home-an abundance that is due in no small part to the island's unusually varied ecology. Exploring the Other Island offers 41 chapters and 14 additional essays divided by season. But it is also truly a guidebook. Each section concludes with notes on Where to see what has been discussed, and When. The Index of Species is a valuable reference. The Index of Locations lists a remarkable 116 local, county, state, and national parks and other destinations. If you find yourself, for example, in Caumsett State Park just turn to the Locations Index to discover what to look for. There are also four appendixes to guide you to further study.
Gather the Daughters
Author: Jennie Melamed
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316463671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers -- chosen male descendants of the original ten -- are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly -- they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316463671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers -- chosen male descendants of the original ten -- are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly -- they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.
Narrative of the United States' Exploring Expedition
Author: Charles Wilkes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Exploring Quadra Island
Author: Jeanette Taylor
Publisher: Quathiaski Cove, B.C. : Fernbank Pub.
ISBN: 9780968889008
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Quathiaski Cove, B.C. : Fernbank Pub.
ISBN: 9780968889008
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Exploring the Other Island
Author: John Turner
Publisher: UNET 2 Corporation
ISBN: 1932916350
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Publisher: UNET 2 Corporation
ISBN: 1932916350
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Cozumel in a Day: Discovering the Best of the Island for Time-Strapped Cruise Ship Visitors
Author: Claire Austin
Publisher: T Turner
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Ahoy cruise ship enthusiasts! Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Look no further, because "Cozumel in a Day: Discovering the Best of the Island for Time-Strapped Cruise Ship Visitors" is the ultimate guidebook for making the most of your time on the beautiful island of Cozumel. This guidebook is specially designed for cruise ship guests who only have a single day to explore the island. But don't let the limited time fool you, with our help, you'll be able to discover the best of Cozumel in just 24 hours! From snorkeling and scuba diving in the crystal-clear waters, to visiting the island's ancient Mayan ruins and experiencing the local culture and customs, this guidebook has it all. We'll take you on a journey through the island's history and culture, and guide you to the best snorkeling and scuba diving spots, the best beaches, and the best places to shop and eat. Plus, we'll provide you with an itinerary that will help you make the most of your time on the island, and tips on how to avoid the crowds. But that's not all, we'll also provide you with information on the best ways to get around the island, whether you prefer to rent a car, take a taxi, or join a guided tour. And for the nature lovers, we'll take you on a journey through the island's natural beauty, including the coral reefs that surround the island and the island's marine life. So, pack your bags and join us on this fun-filled adventure. With "Cozumel in a Day: Discovering the Best of the Island for Time-Strapped Cruise Ship Visitors," you'll be able to make the most of your time on the island and experience the best of Cozumel in less than 24 hours. Don't miss out, grab your copy today and let's set sail for an unforgettable day on the island of Cozumel!
Publisher: T Turner
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Ahoy cruise ship enthusiasts! Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Look no further, because "Cozumel in a Day: Discovering the Best of the Island for Time-Strapped Cruise Ship Visitors" is the ultimate guidebook for making the most of your time on the beautiful island of Cozumel. This guidebook is specially designed for cruise ship guests who only have a single day to explore the island. But don't let the limited time fool you, with our help, you'll be able to discover the best of Cozumel in just 24 hours! From snorkeling and scuba diving in the crystal-clear waters, to visiting the island's ancient Mayan ruins and experiencing the local culture and customs, this guidebook has it all. We'll take you on a journey through the island's history and culture, and guide you to the best snorkeling and scuba diving spots, the best beaches, and the best places to shop and eat. Plus, we'll provide you with an itinerary that will help you make the most of your time on the island, and tips on how to avoid the crowds. But that's not all, we'll also provide you with information on the best ways to get around the island, whether you prefer to rent a car, take a taxi, or join a guided tour. And for the nature lovers, we'll take you on a journey through the island's natural beauty, including the coral reefs that surround the island and the island's marine life. So, pack your bags and join us on this fun-filled adventure. With "Cozumel in a Day: Discovering the Best of the Island for Time-Strapped Cruise Ship Visitors," you'll be able to make the most of your time on the island and experience the best of Cozumel in less than 24 hours. Don't miss out, grab your copy today and let's set sail for an unforgettable day on the island of Cozumel!