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This copy is new and unread From Captain Cook to the handover of Hong Kong this text deals with such diverse topics as exploration marine surveying charting carrying convicts to Australia taking New Zealand kauri spars back to Britain for the Royal Dockyards maintaining stocks of provisions on remote islands for the benefit of shipwrecked sailors
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This Guild X170 BL Manhattan from 1997 is a beauty with nice flame everywhere The guitar was made in the Westerly Rhode Island plant It neede
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While on a cruise to Havana in 1911 Beater heard part of the Gasparilla story That piqued an interest that persisted for fifty years as he pored over old books and records and talked endlessly to early settlers to hear more handmedown yarns This book recounts some of his best tall tales
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Few people today have ever heard of North Brother Island though a hundred years ago it was place known toand often feared bynearly everyone in New York City The island a small dot in the East River twenty acres slotted between todays gritty industrial shores of the Bronx and Queens was a minor piece of the New York archipelago until the late 19th century when calls for social and sanitary reformand the massive expansion of the citys populationcombined to remake NBI as a hospital island a place to contain infectious disease and later other societal illsAbandoned since 1963 North Brother Island is a ruin and a wildlife sanctuary it is the protected nesting ground of the Blackcrowned Night Heron closed to the public and virtually invisible to it But one cannot mistake its abandoned state as a sign of its irrelevance to the citys history and culture Traces of the extensive hospital campus remain as do sites linked to notorious people it was the final home of Typhoid Mary and events the steamship General Slocum sank by its shores It has stories to tellPhotographer Christopher Payne Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals was granted permission by New York Citys Parks amp Recreation Department to photograph the island over a period of years The results are both beautiful and startling On North Brother Island devoid of human habitation for fifty years buildings great and small are being consumed by the unchecked growth of vegetation In just a few decades a forest has sprung up where once there were the streets and manicured lawns of a hospital campusNorth Brother Island The Last Unknown Place in New York City includes a history by University of Pennsylvania preservationist Randall Mason who has studied the island extensively and an essay by the writer Robert Sullivan Rats The Meadowlands who came along on one of the rare expeditions
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Many people today have never heard of the Comoros but these islands were once part of a prosperous regional trading economy that stretched halfway around the world A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean the Comoros prospered by exchanging slaves and commodities with Arab and Indian merchants By the sixteenth century the archipelago served as an important supply point on the route from Europe to Asia The twentieth century brought the establishment of French colonial rule and a plantation economy Since declaring its independence in 1975 the Comoros has been blighted by more than twenty coups a radical revolutionary government and a mercenary regime Today the island nation suffers chronic mismanagement and relies on remittances from a diaspora community in France Nonetheless the Comoros is largely peaceful and culturally vibrant connected to the outside world in the internet age but at the same time still slightly apart Iain Walker traces the history and unique culture of these enigmatic islands from their first settlement by Africans Arabs and Austronesians through their heyday within the greater Swahili world to their decline as a forgotten outpost of the French colonial empire
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Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency when in 1989 holidaying in Skye she noticed an advert for a property on the Isle of Soay Access by courtesy of fishing boat She had never heard of Soay before let alone visited it but something inexplicable drew her there Within ten minutes of stepping off the said fishing boat she had fallen under the spell of the island and after a few months she moved there to live Anne describes the history of Soay and its unique wildlife and as well as telling her own personal story
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This volume describes the results of the first archaeological survey and excavations carried out in the fascinating and remote Aru Islands Eastern Indonesia between 1995 and 1997 The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who stopped here in search of the Birds of Paradise on his voyage through the IndoMalay Archipelago in the 1850s was the first to draw attention to the group The results reveal a complex and fascinating history covering the last 30000 years from its early settlement by huntergatherers the late Holocene arrival of ceramic producing agriculturalists later associations with the Bird of Paradise trade and the colonial expansion of the Dutch trading empires The excavations and finds from two large Pleistocene caves Liang Lemdubu and Nabulei Lisa are reported in detail documenting the changing environmental and cultural history of the islands from when they were connected to Greater Australia and used by huntergatherers to their formation as islands and use by agriculturalists The results of the excavation of the late Neolithic Metal Age midden at Wangil are discussed as is the mysterious preColonial fort at Ujir and the 350year old ruins of forts and a church associated with the Dutch garrisons
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A man went to knock at the kings door and said to him Give me a boat The kings house had many other doors but this was the door for petitions Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favors favors being done to the king you understand whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions he would pretend not to hear Why the petitioner required a boat where he was bound for and who volunteered to crew for him the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds And at the end it will be clear that if we thought we were reading a childrens fable we were wrongwe have been reading a love story and a philosophical tale worthy of Voltaire or Swift
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Few people today have ever heard of North Brother Island though a hundred years ago it was place known toand often feared bynearly everyone in New York City The island a small dot in the East River twenty acres slotted between todays gritty industrial shores of the Bronx and Queens was a minor piece of the New York archipelago until the late 19th century when calls for social and sanitary reformand the massive expansion of the citys populationcombined to remake NBI as a hospital island a place to contain infectious disease and later other societal illsAbandoned since 1963 North Brother Island is a ruin and a wildlife sanctuary it is the protected nesting ground of the Blackcrowned Night Heron closed to the public and virtually invisible to it But one cannot mistake its abandoned state as a sign of its irrelevance to the citys history and culture Traces of the extensive hospital campus remain as do sites linked to notorious people it was the final home of Typhoid Mary and events the steamship General Slocum sank by its shores It has stories to tellPhotographer Christopher Payne Asylum Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals was granted permission by New York Citys Parks amp Recreation Department to photograph the island over a period of years The results are both beautiful and startling On North Brother Island devoid of human habitation for fifty years buildings great and small are being consumed by the unchecked growth of vegetation In just a few decades a forest has sprung up where once there were the streets and manicured lawns of a hospital campusNorth Brother Island The Last Unknown Place in New York City includes a history by University of Pennsylvania preservationist Randall Mason who has studied the island extensively and an essay by the writer Robert Sullivan Rats The Meadowlands who came along on one of the rare expeditions
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This volume describes the results of the first archaeological survey and excavations carried out in the fascinating and remote Aru Islands Eastern Indonesia between 1995 and 1997 The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who stopped here in search of the Birds of Paradise on his voyage through the IndoMalay Archipelago in the 1850s was the first to draw attention to the group The results reveal a complex and fascinating history covering the last 30000 years from its early settlement by huntergatherers the late Holocene arrival of ceramic producing agriculturalists later associations with the Bird of Paradise trade and the colonial expansion of the Dutch trading empires The excavations and finds from two large Pleistocene caves Liang Lemdubu and Nabulei Lisa are reported in detail documenting the changing environmental and cultural history of the islands from when they were connected to Greater Australia and used by huntergatherers to their formation as islands and use by agriculturalists The results of the excavation of the late Neolithic Metal Age midden at Wangil are discussed as is the mysterious preColonial fort at Ujir and the 350year old ruins of forts and a church associated with the Dutch garrisons
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Ever hear of an interocitor No Well dont be surprised neither had Cal Meacham electronics engineer and chief of research at Ryberg Instrument Nor had Cal ever heard of a catherimine tube with an endiom complex of plus four Yet those and other equally bewildering apparatus were offered for sale in the catalogue from Electronic Service Unit 16 Unfortunately there wasnt a single clue in the catalogue as to how an interocitor functioned or even what it was yet judging from the list of parts and the accompanying diagrams it was an enormously complex piece of equipment Cal realized that even if he ordered a set of interocitor parts and somehow succeeded in putting one together he would have no way of knowing if it were operating properly or not Was the entire catalogue some monstrous joke of which he was the butt or had Cal stumbled upon a technology vastly superior to our own Cal had to know his curiosity both as a scientist and as a man was aroused and thus began Cals apprenticeship with the Peace Engineers And in the surprising events that followed Cal Meacham became involved in an adventure to stagger the imagination One of the truly memorable science fiction experiences of this or any other year THIS ISLAND EARTH is that rare science fiction novel which combines a sense of social responsibility and thrilling action within the framework of a cosmic struggle to maintain a barrier against an incredible invasion Here is a book that will appeal to everyone who has ever stopped on a starry night to gaze in wonder at the vastness of the universe and to ponder the place in infinity of this island Earth
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Many people today have never heard of the Comoros but these islands were once part of a prosperous regional trading economy that stretched halfway around the world A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean the Comoros prospered by exchanging slaves and commodities with Arab and Indian merchants By the sixteenth century the archipelago served as an important supply point on the route from Europe to Asia The twentieth century brought the establishment of French colonial rule and a plantation economy Since declaring its independence in 1975 the Comoros has been blighted by more than twenty coups a radical revolutionary government and a mercenary regime Today the island nation suffers chronic mismanagement and relies on remittances from a diaspora community in France Nonetheless the Comoros is largely peaceful and culturally vibrant connected to the outside world in the internet age but at the same time still slightly apart Iain Walker traces the history and unique culture of these enigmatic islands from their first settlement by Africans Arabs and Austronesians through their heyday within the greater Swahili world to their decline as a forgotten outpost of the French colonial empire
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Dont say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story Youve heard it now Thomas King in this volumeRead Listen Tell brings together an extraordinary range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island North America From short fiction to astoldto narratives from illustrated stories to personal essays these stories celebrate the strength of heritage and the liveliness of innovation Ranging in tone from humorous to defiant to triumphant the stories explore core concepts in Indigenous literary expression such as the relations between land language and community the variety of narrative forms and the continuities between oral and written forms of expression Rich in insight and bold in execution the stories proclaim the diversity vitality and depth of Indigenous writingBuilding on two decades of scholarly work to centre Indigenous knowledges and perspectives the book transforms literary method while respecting and honouring Indigenous histories and peoples of these lands It includes stories by acclaimed writerslike Thomas King Sherman Alexie Paula Gunn Allen and Eden Robinson a new generation of emergent writers and writers and storytellers who have often been excluded from the canon such as French and Spanishlanguage Indigenous authors Indigenous authors from Mexico Chicanao authors Indigenouslanguage authors works in translation and lost or underappreciated textsIn a place and time when Indigenous people often have to contend with representations that marginalize or devalue their intellectual and cultural heritage this collection is a testament to Indigenous resilience and creativity It shows that the ways in which we read listen and tell play key roles in how we establish relationships with one another and how we might share knowledges across cultures languages and social spaces
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