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Book St Helena

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sue Steiner
  • Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781841621982
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book St Helena written by Sue Steiner and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook for true explorers, the south Atlantic islands of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha are isolated and therefore a fascinating destination for travellers who enjoy a completely different vacation. Their remote location has led to a host of endemic plant species and large seabird colonies, meaning the islands appeal to botanists and birdwatchers the world over.

Book St Helena

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Britt-Gallagher
  • Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
  • Release : 2015-11-05
  • ISBN : 1841629391
  • Pages : 236 pages

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.

Book Green Imperialism

Download or read book Green Imperialism written by Richard H. Grove and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects.

Book Distant freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Pearson
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-31
  • ISBN : 1781383855
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Distant freedom written by Andrew Pearson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena and its role in the abolition of the slave trade.

Book El Ni  o in World History

Download or read book El Ni o in World History written by Richard Grove and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. Throughout human history, large or recurrent El Niños could cause significant disruption to societies and in some cases even contribute to political change. Yet it is only now that we are coming to appreciate the significance of the phenomenon. In this volume, Richard Grove and George Adamson chart the dual history of El Niño: as a global phenomenon capable of devastating weather extremes and, since the 18th century, as a developing idea in science and society. The chapters trace El Niño’s position in world history from its role in the revolution in Australian Aboriginal Culture at 5,000 BP to the 2015-16 ‘Godzilla’ event. It ends with a discussion of El Niño in the current media, which is as much a product of the public imagination as it is a natural process.

Book Naturalised Birds of the World

Download or read book Naturalised Birds of the World written by Christopher Lever and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the world's naturalised (successfully introduced) species of bird. Many species have been introduced to countries outside their natural range by people, either deliberately or accidentally, with varied consequences for both those species themselves and the native fauna of their 'new' homes. In Britain, the introduced Canada Goose has quickly become ubiquitous at every lake and riverside, while the Golden Pheasant remains a scarce and unobtrusive inhabitant of a few scattered, remote woodlands. The House Sparrow and Common Starling, both in decline over parts of their native range, are thriving in a naturalised state in North America and elsewhere in the world. Naturalised populations of Mallard in various parts of the world are threatening a total of seven other duck species with extinction through hybridisation. This book discusses each species in turn, describing how, why, when and where its introduction took place, how it became established, and the ecological and economic impacts its presence has had in the country or countries it is naturalised in. Each account has a map, showing natural and introduced range, and there is a wealth of beautiful line drawings of the species concerned.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law written by Anne Orford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of International Legal Theory provides an accessible and authoritative guide to the major thinkers, concepts, approaches, and debates that have shaped contemporary international legal theory. The Handbook features 48 original essays by leading international scholars from a wide range of traditions, nationalities, and perspectives, reflecting the richness and diversity of this dynamic field. The collection explores key questions and debates in international legal theory, offers new intellectual histories for the discipline, and provides fresh interpretations of significant historical figures, texts, and theoretical approaches. It provides a much-needed map of the field of international legal theory, and a guide to the main themes and debates that have driven theoretical work in international law. The Handbook will be an indispensable reference work for students, scholars, and practitioners seeking to gain an overview of current theoretical debates about the nature, function, foundations, and future role of international law.

Book Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Download or read book Seeing the Forest for the Trees written by Gordon Bonan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planting trees to improve climate is an age-old idea, once refuted in scientific dispute more than a century ago, and reborn today with climate change worries. Spanning the 1500s to the present, this book examines the history and science of forest-climate influences, and forest management to mitigate climate change.

Book Chronicles of Cape Commanders

Download or read book Chronicles of Cape Commanders written by George McCall Theal and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United Empire

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 926 pages

Download or read book United Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sustainability or Collapse

Download or read book Sustainability or Collapse written by Robert Costanza and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans; the effect of climate on the Roman Empire; the "revolutionary weather" of El Niño from 1788 to 1795; twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change; scenarios for the future; and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth.

Book The American Archivist

Download or read book The American Archivist written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes sections "Reviews of books" and "Abstracts of archive publications (Western and Eastern Europe)."

Book St Helena

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  • Author : Tony Cross
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book St Helena written by Tony Cross and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book St  Helena  1502 1938

Download or read book St Helena 1502 1938 written by Philip Gosse and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of St Helena, which is an account of Britain's most remote and second oldest colony. Once the hub of South Atlantic trade routes and the vital ocean oasis for homeward-bound East Indiamen, its history, punctuated by Napoleon's brief exile, is a saga of fortitudes, follies and frustrations.

Book The Birds of St Helena

Download or read book The Birds of St Helena written by Beau W. Rowlands and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: