Author: Sergio Perosa
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9781586030551
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Throughout the long course of literature, islands have accumulated uncanny connotations of death, together with peculiarities of linguistic definition and expression. Since the age of discovery, after the Caribbean Islands, America itself, and later the archipelagos and atolls in the Pacific became known to travellers and conquistadores, islands have been sought, searched, explored and physically possessed as women; cultural recognition takes the form of sexual and physical possession (Venus was born from the sea, and is identified with an island). These are the themes of the first two variations discussed in this book.
From Islands to Portraits
Author: Sergio Perosa
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9781586030551
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Throughout the long course of literature, islands have accumulated uncanny connotations of death, together with peculiarities of linguistic definition and expression. Since the age of discovery, after the Caribbean Islands, America itself, and later the archipelagos and atolls in the Pacific became known to travellers and conquistadores, islands have been sought, searched, explored and physically possessed as women; cultural recognition takes the form of sexual and physical possession (Venus was born from the sea, and is identified with an island). These are the themes of the first two variations discussed in this book.
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9781586030551
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Throughout the long course of literature, islands have accumulated uncanny connotations of death, together with peculiarities of linguistic definition and expression. Since the age of discovery, after the Caribbean Islands, America itself, and later the archipelagos and atolls in the Pacific became known to travellers and conquistadores, islands have been sought, searched, explored and physically possessed as women; cultural recognition takes the form of sexual and physical possession (Venus was born from the sea, and is identified with an island). These are the themes of the first two variations discussed in this book.
Augustus F. Sherman
Author: Augustus F. Sherman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Essay by Peter Mesenholler.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Essay by Peter Mesenholler.
The Cayman Islands
Author: Jenny Palmer
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN: 9781405077248
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1503, Jenny Palmer has captured the beauty of the Islands and the lives of the peaceful, friendly people who live there. This book gives readers the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the islands exotic flora and fauna, including the Caymans national symbol, the green turtle. The Cayman Islands clear, crystalline waters are rich in marine life and magnificent coral reefs, making it one of the world's top diving sites.
Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN: 9781405077248
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1503, Jenny Palmer has captured the beauty of the Islands and the lives of the peaceful, friendly people who live there. This book gives readers the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the islands exotic flora and fauna, including the Caymans national symbol, the green turtle. The Cayman Islands clear, crystalline waters are rich in marine life and magnificent coral reefs, making it one of the world's top diving sites.
Portrait of an Island
Author: Mildred Teal
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820319612
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
When Mildred and John Teal moved to Sapelo Island, Georgia, in 1955, they stepped back in time to a virtually undeveloped landscape of salt marsh, maritime forest, freshwater ponds, sand dunes, and beaches. Over the course of a four-year stay their careful observations of the island's unique marine ecology and wonderfully varied flora and fauna became the basis for Portrait of an Island. The island's human history dates back more than four thousand years. The lure of Sapelo has drawn many to its shores, including tobacco millionaire R. J. Reynolds, who established the University of Georgia Marine Institute there in the 1950s. Surrounded by sixteen thousand acres of pristine marsh, Sapelo offers researchers and the public a rare opportunity for environmental studies. Now a state game refuge and national estuarine sanctuary, the island remains a special haven where humans and nature quietly and peacefully coexist. Portrait of an Island is essential reading for anyone who treasures tranquility.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820319612
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
When Mildred and John Teal moved to Sapelo Island, Georgia, in 1955, they stepped back in time to a virtually undeveloped landscape of salt marsh, maritime forest, freshwater ponds, sand dunes, and beaches. Over the course of a four-year stay their careful observations of the island's unique marine ecology and wonderfully varied flora and fauna became the basis for Portrait of an Island. The island's human history dates back more than four thousand years. The lure of Sapelo has drawn many to its shores, including tobacco millionaire R. J. Reynolds, who established the University of Georgia Marine Institute there in the 1950s. Surrounded by sixteen thousand acres of pristine marsh, Sapelo offers researchers and the public a rare opportunity for environmental studies. Now a state game refuge and national estuarine sanctuary, the island remains a special haven where humans and nature quietly and peacefully coexist. Portrait of an Island is essential reading for anyone who treasures tranquility.
Antigua Black; Portrait of an Island People
Author: Margo Baumgarten Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
These Islands
Author: Rosa Park
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993049743
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993049743
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
More Pacific Islands Portraits
Author: D. Scarr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780080329550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780080329550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Portraits and Dreams
Author: Wendy Ewald
Publisher: Mack Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781912339891
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This expanded edition of Wendy Ewald's now-rare book, first published in 1985, offers a view of the rural south over the past thirty five years. It includes pictures and stories by eight of Ewald's students, now grownups. Their visions, old and new, illuminate the present and the past.
Publisher: Mack Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781912339891
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This expanded edition of Wendy Ewald's now-rare book, first published in 1985, offers a view of the rural south over the past thirty five years. It includes pictures and stories by eight of Ewald's students, now grownups. Their visions, old and new, illuminate the present and the past.
The Wild Treasury of Nature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820348872
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
"Exhibition Schedule, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia February 28 to May 22, 2016."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780820348872
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
"Exhibition Schedule, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia February 28 to May 22, 2016."
Portraits of Islands. Edited by E. Molony. [By Various Authors. With Plates.].
Author: Eileen MOLONY
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description