Download or read book A Dutchman on Tristan Da Cunha written by Sandra Kornet-van Duyvenboden and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Peter Green, a fisherman's son from the fishing village of Katwijk in the Netherlands who was shipwrecked in 1836 on Tristan da Cunha, an island in the middle of the South Atlantic.
Download or read book Tristan Da Cunha written by Daniel Schreier (Anglist) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, social conditions, geology, and language of this archiipelago of islands (Tristan da Cunha, Nightingale, Inaccessible and Gough) located in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Download or read book A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725 written by Alex Ritsema and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 5 May 1725 a Dutch ship's officer, Leendert Hasenbosch, was set ashore on the desert island of Ascension in the South Atlantic Ocean, as a punishment for sodomy. He tried to survive on turtles and birds but found very little water on the barren island. He wrote a diary. He probably died after about half a year. In January 1726 British mariners found his tent, diary and other things and brought the diary to England. In 1726 a first English version of the diary of the Dutch castaway was published. Other versions followed in 1728, 1730 and 1976. Who was the castaway? The truth was disclosed by the Dutch historian Michiel Koolbergen (1953-2002), in a posthumously published book in Dutch. With the support of Michiel Koolbergen's family and publisher, this new book discloses the truth in English. This book is the second edition, with some improvements compared to the original edition of 2006. This book is illustrated with line drawings, both historic ones and by the Dutch artist Anneke de Vries.
Download or read book Rockhopper Copper written by Conrad Glass and published by Polperro Heritage Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Tristan islanders, told by a direct descendant of the first settler there 200 years ago.
Download or read book The Oriental Navigator Or New Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies China New Holland c c c written by Joseph Huddart and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oriental Navigator Or New Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies written by Joseph Huddart and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phraseology and Culture in English written by Paul Skandera and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its speakers' cultural patterns of thought and perception in various ways, for example through a culture-specific segmentation of the extralinguistic reality, the frequency of occurrence of particular lexical items, or the existence of keywords or key word combinations revealing core cultural values. The aim of this volume is to explore the cultural dimension of a wide range of preconstructed or semi-preconstructed word combinations in English. The 17 papers of the volume are divided into four sections, focusing on particular lexemes (e.g. enjoy and its collocates), types of word combinations (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English). The sections are preceded by a prologue, tracing the development of the study of formulaic language, and followed by an epilogue, which draws together the threads laid out in the various papers. The relation between language and culture in general has been explored in a number of important works over the past ten years. However, the study of the relation between English phraseology and culture in particular has been largely neglected. This volume is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to this topic.
Download or read book Isolation and Language Change written by D. Schreier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely isolated communities offer 'laboratory conditions' for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of the first-ever ethnographic fieldwork on the most remote island in the world with a permanent population, Tristan da Cunha. It documents the historical formation of a unique local dialect and investigates the sociolinguistic mechanisms that underlie dialect contact and new-dialect formation. It also uncovers the linguistic consequences of post-insularity - language change processes as a result of increasing contacts with other communities and speakers. Researchers and students of language variation will find this book a unique resource.
Download or read book The Statistician and Economist written by Louis Philippe McCarty and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Dialectology written by Peter Trudgill and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variation in English in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Europe and elsewhere but also in Arabic, Greek, Norwegian and Spanish dialects. The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers. Together the authors provide new perspectives on both the traditional areas of sociolinguistic variation and change and the newer fields of dialect formation, dialect diffusion and dialect levelling.
Download or read book The Statistician and Economist written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Helena written by Susan Britt-Gallagher and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rugged, volcanic and very remote, the three tiny islands of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha dot the South Atlantic like so many bits of flotsam. As Napoleon's place of exile following the Battle of Waterloo, St Helena has gained a notoriety that assures its place in the travel lexicon. This fully revised edition includes information on St Helena's new airport, which makes it possible for the first time for visitors to explore the island's natural and historic attractions without a five-day sea voyage to get here. Hiking, fishing, snorkelling and diving are included, plus details of marine wildlife, from whale sharks and dolphins to groupers and soldier fish. Expert author Tricia Hayne also provides a section on '24 hours in Cape Town', offering a brief overview of what to see and do with a day between voyages.
Download or read book Voices of the Confederate Navy written by R. Thomas Campbell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work is a collection of works by Southern naval participants. The narratives traverse the field from the fond and not-so-fond memories to the carefully worded reports of an officer claiming a victory or the loss of a ship. The writings lend information as one tries to understand what personnel faced during this time in history"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Sociolinguistics Soziolinguistik Volume 3 written by Ulrich Ammon and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-07-14 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "SOCIOLINGUISTICS (AMMON) 3.TLBD HSK 3.3 2A E-BOOK".
Download or read book The Annual Statistician and Economist written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Empire generally and Africa v 2 The Commonwealth of Australia the Dominion of New Zealand the South Pacific general voyages and travels and Arctic and Antarctic regions v 3 The Dominion of Canada and its provinces the Dominion of Newfoundland the West Indies and Colonial America v 4 The Mediterranean colonies the Middle East Indian Empire Burma Ceylon British Malaya East Indian Islands and the Far East written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Statistician and Economist written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
