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Book The Coral Lands of the Pacific

Download or read book The Coral Lands of the Pacific written by H. Stonehewer Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Sammy Went to Coral Land

Download or read book How Sammy Went to Coral Land written by Emily Paret Atwater and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Sammy Went to Coral-Land" by Emily Paret Atwater is a charming tale of a fish named Sammy and his adventures swimming through the oceans. On his adventures, he meets a variety of intriguing characters, from starfish to hermit crabs, and even a few sharks, all while on his exciting journey to find the much-talked-about Coral Land. Complete with images, this book is a quirky and fun tale that brings the ocean to life.

Book Coral and Concrete

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Dvorak
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2018-11-30
  • ISBN : 0824855213
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Coral and Concrete written by Greg Dvorak and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral and Concrete, Greg Dvorak’s cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll on earth. Approaching the multiple “atollscapes” of Kwajalein’s past and present as Marshallese ancestral land, Japanese colonial outpost, Pacific War battlefield, American weapons-testing base, and an enduring home for many, Dvorak delves into personal narratives and collective mythologies from contradictory vantage points. He navigates the tensions between “little stories” of ordinary human actors and “big stories” of global politics—drawing upon the “little” metaphor of the coral organisms that colonize and build atolls, and the “big” metaphor of the all-encompassing concrete that buries and co-opts the past. Building upon the growing body of literature about militarism and decolonization in Oceania, this book advocates a layered, nuanced approach that emphasizes the multiplicity and contradictions of Pacific Islands histories as an antidote to American hegemony and globalization within and beyond the region. It also brings Japanese, Korean, Okinawan, and American perspectives into conversation with Micronesians’ recollections of colonialism and war. This transnational history—built upon a combination of reflective personal narrative, ethnography, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies—thus resituates Kwajalein Atoll as a pivotal site where Islanders have not only thrived for thousands of years, but also mediated between East and West, shaping crucial world events. Based on multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, as well as Dvorak’s own experiences growing up between Kwajalein, the United States, and Japan, Coral and Concrete integrates narrative and imagery with semiotic analysis of photographs, maps, films, and music, traversing colonial tropical fantasies, tales of victory and defeat, missile testing, fisheries, war-bereavement rituals, and landowner resistance movements, from the twentieth century through the present day. Representing history as a perennial struggle between coral and concrete, the book offers an Oceanian paradigm for decolonization, resistance, solidarity, and optimism that should appeal to all readers far beyond the Marshall Islands.

Book Corals and Coral Islands

Download or read book Corals and Coral Islands written by James Dwight Dana and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Coral Reefs and Islands

Download or read book On Coral Reefs and Islands written by James Dwight Dana and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Sammy Went to Coral Land

Download or read book How Sammy Went to Coral Land written by Emily Paret Atwater and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "How Sammy Went to Coral-Land" by Emily Paret Atwater. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Gems from the coral islands

Download or read book Gems from the coral islands written by William Gill and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coral Kingdom

Download or read book The Coral Kingdom written by Laura Knowles and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From brightly coloured corals to shimmering shoals of fish, the diversity of life on a coral reef is celebrated in this visually stunning picture book with a strong ecological message about the need to protect this most precious of environments. Through gentle rhyme and intricately etched artwork, it explores the life cycle, diversity and colour of the coral reef ecosystem, as well as the threats the reef faces and what we can do to save it. With each page packed full of delightful sea creatures to discover and enjoy, this is a lyrical and engaging way to learn about the life cycle of a coral reef.

Book Geological Observations on Coral Reefs  Volcanic Islands and on South America

Download or read book Geological Observations on Coral Reefs Volcanic Islands and on South America written by Charles Robert Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Coral Islands of Empire  Mission  and the Boys    Adventure Novel

Download or read book Victorian Coral Islands of Empire Mission and the Boys Adventure Novel written by Michelle Elleray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children’s textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British presence in imperial spaces as a moral imperative, our understanding of the "adventurer" is transformed from the plucky explorer to the cynical mercenary through Robert Louis Stevenson, who provides a late-nineteenth-century critique of the imperial and missionary assumptions that subtended the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel of his youth.

Book Coral Reefs of the USA

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernhard M. Riegl
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-03-21
  • ISBN : 1402068476
  • Pages : 811 pages

Download or read book Coral Reefs of the USA written by Bernhard M. Riegl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-21 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral Reefs of the USA provides a complete overview of the present status of knowledge regarding all coral reef areas within the USA and its territories. It is written by the most experienced authorities in their fields and geographic areas. Stretching from the Caribbean to the western Pacific, the coral reefs of the USA span extensive geographic and biotic diversity, occur in a wide variety of geomorphological settings, and provide a representative cross-section of Holocene reef-building. This book will therefore be of broad general interest. For the first time, complete scholarly reviews are given for the geology, geomorphology and the biology of reefs encompassing a vast area stretching from the Mariana Islands in the west, Samoa in the south, Hawaii in the north and the Virgin Islands in the east. This book is not a status report, but will provide up-to-date information about stressors and the biotic responses of the reefs, as well as the geological explanations why these reefs exist in the first place. It will be an invaluable baseline-reference for all those who are engaged in research or management of these coral reefs or to those who simply enjoy being well-informed about one of the most iconic ecosystems of the USA.

Book In Lands Afar

Download or read book In Lands Afar written by Elpathan E. Strong and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geomorphology and Physical Oceanography of the Lakshadweep Coral Islands in the Indian Ocean

Download or read book Geomorphology and Physical Oceanography of the Lakshadweep Coral Islands in the Indian Ocean written by T.N. Prakash and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lakshadweep islands are a group of 36 coral islands in the Indian Ocean. These small islands are unique for their aquatic bio-diversity and vast blue lagoons. This book presents the results of studies done by the authors during the period 1990 to 2009 that address the beach morphology, hydrodynamics, energy resources and management options with special reference to the issue of both natural and anthropogenic coastal erosion. The relatively low island elevation makes the islands more susceptible to high-wave attack and coastal flooding during adverse weather conditions. The islands are also prone to risks from episodic events like cyclones and deep depressions. This highlights the need for a comprehensive study of the wave, climate and coastal processes at work during different seasons to delineate the factors responsible for shoreline changes and also to identify the locations that need protection and the management options. This book will serve as a guide to researchers, scholars and students who are interested in the coastal processes of coral islands.

Book First Teachings about the Earth  Its Lands and Waters  Its Countries and States  Etc

Download or read book First Teachings about the Earth Its Lands and Waters Its Countries and States Etc written by M. J. OGLE and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: