Download or read book The Desert Islands of Mexico s Sea of Cortez written by Stewart W. Aitchison and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desert islands in the Sea of Cortez are little known except to a few intrepid tourists, sailors, and fishermen. Though at first glance these stark islands may appear barren, they are a refuge for an astounding variety of plants and animals. While many of the species are typical of the greater Sonoran Desert region, some are endemic or unique to one or two islands. For example, Isla Santa Catalina is home to the worldÕs only rattlesnake that has lost its ability to grow a rattle. Other islands host nesting birds, such as Isla Rasa, a tiny, flat flow of basalt lava that attracts nearly half a million elegant and royal terns and HeermannÕs gulls each spring. The Desert Islands of MexicoÕs Sea of Cortez is one of the few books devoted to the biogeography of this remarkable part of the world. The book explores the geologic origin of the gulf and its islands, presents some of the basics of island biogeography, details insular lifeÑincluding residents of the intertidal zone Ñand provides a brief outlook for preserving this area. More than a simple guidebook, AitchisonÕs writing will take both actual and armchair travelers through a gripping tale of natural history. Like the rest of our fragile planet, the Sea of Cortez and its islands are threatened by humans. Overfishing has eliminated or greatly diminished many fish stocks, and dams on rivers that once flowed into the gulf prevent certain nutrients from reaching the sea. The tenuousness of this area makes the bookÕs extraordinary photographs and the firsthand descriptions by a well-known teacher, writer, and photographer all the more compelling.
Download or read book Treasured Islands written by Lowell Don Holmes and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only the British writer himself, already famous for novels and poems, but his family with him took to the sea between 1888 and 1890 to search Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia for Robert's health and adventure. Writer and film maker Holmes (emeritus anthropology, Wichita State U. Kansas) has
Download or read book Wild Life in Southern Seas written by Louis Becke and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Life in Southern Seas by Louis Becke is about the various sea life and whale fights seen by the narrator in the company of a young girl. Excerpt: "We—a little girl of six, and myself—were seated upon a high, flat-topped, grassy headland of a lonely part of the northern coast of New South Wales, five miles from the old penal settlement of Port Macquarie. Three hundred feet below, the long Pacific rollers, unruffled by the faintest breath of air, swept in endless but surf less succession around a chain of black, isolated, and kelp-covered rocks..."
Download or read book Eastern Islands Southern Seas written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories of Earth and Sea written by Anton Daughters and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more than two dozen islands that make up southern Chile’s Chiloé Archipelago present a unique case of culture change and rapid industrialization in the twentieth century. Since the arrival of the first European settlers in the late 1500s, Chiloé was given scant attention by colonial and national governments on mainland Chile. Islanders developed a way of life heavily dependent on marine resources, native crops like the potato, and the cooperative labor practice known as the minga. Starting in the 1980s, Chiloé emerged as a key player in the global seafood market as major companies moved into the region to extract wild stocks of fish and to grow salmon and shellfish for export. The region’s economy shifted abruptly from one of subsistence farming and fishing to wage labor in export industries. Local knowledge, traditions, memories, and identities similarly shifted, with younger islanders expressing a more critical view of the rural past than their elders. This book recounts the unique history of this region, emphasizing the generational tensions, disconnects, and continuities of the last half century. Drawing on interviews, field observations, and historical documents, Anton Daughters brings to life one of the most culturally distinct regions of South America.
Download or read book In the South Seas written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook s Adventure in the South Seas written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Litres. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook s Adventure in the South Seas written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas" by R. M. Ballantyne. 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.
Download or read book Adventures in Southern Seas written by George Forbes and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Adventures in Southern Seas by George Forbes
Download or read book Polynesia or Christianity in the Islands of the South Sea Fourth edition written by POLYNESIA. and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands in the Salish Sea written by Judi Stevenson and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgeous, fascinating and unconventional, the Islands in the Salish Sea show aspects of the Gulf Islands that are most beloved by the residents, from heritage orchards, fishing spots and patches of endangered wild orchids to ancient First Nations' sites and bird colonies. The community on each island decided what elements should be depicted, and local artists then created each of the magnificent and wildly different maps. This volume is a treasure-trove of cherished information that could have been lost, presented with imagination and great beauty. The Islands in the Salish Sea Community Mapping Project was coordinated by Sheila Harrington and Judi Stevenson, who live on Salt Spring Island.
Download or read book Affecting Intelligence from the South Sea Islands written by Rev. Robert FERGUSON (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands written by John Williams and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Missionary Life in the Southern Seas written by James Hutton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book In the South Seas written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A narrative of missionary enterprises in the South Sea Islands with remarks upon the natural history of the islands origin languages traditions and usages of the inhabitants illustrated with engravings Second thousand written by John WILLIAMS (Missionary to the South Seas.) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strangers in the South Seas written by Richard Lansdown and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth-such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: the noble savage. For the first time Westerners were confronted by a people who seemed happier than themselves. This revolution in the human sciences was accompanied by one in the natural sciences after Darwin's momentous visit to the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific produced other challenges for nineteenth-century researchers on race and culture, and for those intent on exporting their religions to this immense quarter of the globe. As the century wore on, the region presented opportunities and dilemmas for the imperial powers, a process was accelerated by the Pacific War between 1941 and 1945. Strangers in the South Seas recounts and illustrates this story using a wealth of primary texts. It includes generous excerpts from the work of explorers, soldiers, naturalists, anthropologists, artists, and writers--some famous, some obscure. It shows how "the Great South Sea" has been an irreplaceable "distant mirror" of the West and its intellectual obsessions since the Renaissance.
