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Book Land Beyond Maps

Download or read book Land Beyond Maps written by Maida Tilchen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Land Beyond Maps" tells of midlife lesbians and their friends in Santa Fe and the Navajo lands through the boom and bust of 1929. The work is closely based on the true story of landscape photographer Laura Gilpin.

Book Land Beyond the Map

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth Bulmer
  • Publisher : Gateway
  • Release : 2011-09-29
  • ISBN : 0575122242
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Land Beyond the Map written by Kenneth Bulmer and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressway to an Uncharted Sphere "Theyre about!" the woman whispered, and Crane abruptly saw a strange light shining through the heavy black curtains that shrouded the house. He crossed to the window and before anyone could stop him he drew the curtain back. At first he did not understand what he saw: a round gleaming, colour-running orb stared unwinkingly back into his face. It was an eye. An immense sad eye staring at him through the chink of the curtains, an eye surrounded by a living whorl of flame that he had last seen engulfing poor Barney in the parking lot. At least three others had disappeared into the strange world from which those aliens had come, and a girl had been driven insane by them. And before Crane's quest to unravel the secret of the Map Country was complete, the fate of two worlds would hang in the balance.

Book Land Beyond the Map

Download or read book Land Beyond the Map written by Kenneth Bulmer and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Maps and Atlases

Download or read book Beyond Maps and Atlases written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new body of work. Beyond maps and atlases, Bertien van Manen turns to Ireland. Van Manen says, At first, working in Ireland I wasn't sure what I was looking for. My husband had died. I dispensed with the people and reflected on the atmosphere. I was guided by a feeling and a search, a longing for some kind of meaning in a place of myths and legends. There was mystery and endlessness at the edge of a land beyond which is nothing but a vast expanse. where can it be found again? An elswhere world, beyond maps and atlases. Where all is woven into and of itself, like a nest of crosshatched grass blades Seamus heaney Van Manen rolled into photography almost by accident, taking pictures of her children with an old camera. As her work became more public she was soon drafted into the world of fashion photography. In 1977 she tired of the industry, and on discovering the documentary photograpy of Robert Frank and Josef Koudelka, van Manen began to explore the developing relationship between herself and her subjects, keeping a closeness and developing a personal, organic style of photography. Recent works include Easter and Oak Trees (MACK, 2013) and Moonshine (MACK, 2014).

Book Land Beyond the River

    Book Details:
  • Author : Monica Whitlock
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2014-05-27
  • ISBN : 146687239X
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Land Beyond the River written by Monica Whitlock and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the banks of the river once called Oxus lie the heartlands of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Catapulted into the news by events in Afghanistan, just across the water, these strategically important, intriguing and beautiful countries remain almost completely unknown to the outside world. In this book, Monica Whitlock goes far beyond the headlines. Using eyewitness accounts, unpublished letters and firsthand reporting, she enters into the lives of the Central Asians and reveals a dramatic and moving human story unfolding over three generations. There is Muhammadjan, called 'Hindustani', a diligent seminary student in the holy city of Bukhara until the 1917 revolution tore up the old order. Exiled to Siberia as a shepherd and then conscripted into the Red Army, he survived to become the inspiration for a new generation of clerics. Henrika was one of tens of thousands of Poles who walked and rode through Central Asia on their way to a new life in Iran, where she lives to this day. Then there were the proud Pioneer children who grew up in the certainty that the Soviet Union would last forever, only to find themselves in a new world that they had never imagined. In Central Asia, the extraordinary is commonplace and there is not a family without a remarkable story to tell. Land Beyond the River is both a chronicle of a century and a clear-eyed, authoritative view of contemporary events.

Book Beyond the Map  from the author of Off the Map

Download or read book Beyond the Map from the author of Off the Map written by Alastair Bonnett and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography is getting stranger. Out there, fleets of new islands are under construction and micro-nations are struggling into the light. As new borders and boundaries ebb and flow with increasing speed, it feels as if our old maps are being discarded, redrawn or torn up. Alastair Bonnett uncovers the stories of thirty-nine extraordinary places, each of which challenges us to re-imagine the world around us. From emerging islands, disruptive enclaves and bold utopian visions to uncanny ruins, ghostly tunnels and hidden landscapes – these are destinations that lie beyond ordinary coordinates. A follow on from the critically acclaimed Off the Map, this is a timely and fascinating discussion of place, ownership and ideas of state.

Book The Land Beyond

Download or read book The Land Beyond written by Jack Ives and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearted, winning memoir and a call to action on the issues of environmental awareness and conservation that are inextricably intertwined with life in the north. Mixing personal impressions of key figures of the postwar scientific boom with the intellectual drama of field research, The Land Beyond is a memorable depiction of a life in science.

Book Some account of the British Dominions beyond the Atlantic     With a     map  etc  Part 1

Download or read book Some account of the British Dominions beyond the Atlantic With a map etc Part 1 written by William Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

Download or read book The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps written by Benjamin B. Olshin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns a collection of maps and associated documents claimed to be from Marco Polo's time or that of his daughters (as many of the maps have the name or one or another of the three daughters on them). Discusses provenance, authenticity, and history of the documents, known to scholars as "the Marco Polo Maps" since 1948, here discussed fully for the first time.

Book Maps and Monsters in Medieval England

Download or read book Maps and Monsters in Medieval England written by Asa Mittman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as divinely ordered, so Britain's location at the periphery of the inhabitable world caused anxiety among its inhabitants. Far from the world's holy center, the geographic margins were considered monstrous. Medieval geography, for centuries scorned as crude, is now the subject of several careful studies. Monsters have likewise been the subject of recent attention in the growing field of monster studies, though few works situate these creatures firmly in their specific historical contexts. This book sits at the crossroads of these two discourses (geography and monstrosity), treated separately in the established scholarship but inseparable in the minds of medieval authors and artists.

Book The Land Beyond

Download or read book The Land Beyond written by Leon McCarron and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. There are many reasons why it might seem unwise to walk, mostly alone, through the Middle East. That, in part, is exactly why Leon McCarron did it. From Jerusalem, McCarron followed a series of wild hiking trails that trace ancient trading and pilgrimage routes and traverse some of the most contested landscapes in the world. In the West Bank, he met families struggling to lead normal lives amidst political turmoil and had a surreal encounter with the world's oldest and smallest religious sect. In Jordan, he visited the ruins of Hellenic citadels and trekked through the legendary Wadi Rum. His journey culminated in the vast deserts of the Sinai, home to Bedouin tribes and haunted by the ghosts of Biblical history. The Land Beyond is a journey through time, from the quagmire of current geopolitics to the original ideals of the faithful, through the layers of history, culture and religion that have shaped the Holy Land. But at its heart, it is the story of people, not politics and of the connections that can bridge seemingly insurmountable barriers.

Book The Land Beyond the Forest

Download or read book The Land Beyond the Forest written by Emily Gerard and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds written by Mark J.P. Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek universe, Thomas More’s classic Utopia, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Arda, to elaborate, user-created game worlds like Minecraft, contributors present interdisciplinary perspectives on authorship, world structure/design, and narrative. The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds offers new approaches to imaginary worlds as an art form and cultural phenomenon, explorations of the technical and creative dimensions of world-building, and studies of specific worlds and worldbuilders.

Book Key to Guyot s Wall Maps

Download or read book Key to Guyot s Wall Maps written by Arnold Guyot and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Homelands and Empires

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffers Lennox
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2017-05-08
  • ISBN : 1442663812
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Homelands and Empires written by Jeffers Lennox and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from 1690 to 1763 was a time of intense territorial competition during which Indigenous peoples remained a dominant force. British Nova Scotia and French Acadia were imaginary places that administrators hoped to graft over the ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq, Wulstukwiuk, Passamaquoddy, and Abenaki peoples. Homelands and Empires is the inaugural volume in the University of Toronto Press’s Studies in Atlantic Canada History. In this deeply researched and engagingly argued work, Jeffers Lennox reconfigures our general understanding of how Indigenous peoples, imperial forces, and settlers competed for space in northeastern North America before the British conquest in 1763. Lennox’s judicious investigation of official correspondence, treaties, newspapers and magazines, diaries, and maps reveals a locally developed system of accommodation that promoted peaceful interactions but enabled violent reprisals when agreements were broken. This outstanding contribution to scholarship on early North America questions the nature and practice of imperial expansion in the face of Indigenous territorial strength.

Book Hands On Geography  Grades 6   8

Download or read book Hands On Geography Grades 6 8 written by Isabelle McCoy and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where in the world are we? Increase students' interest, knowledge, and awareness of geography using Hands-On Geography for grades 6–8. This book features hands-on activities that emphasize the five themes of geography published in Guidelines of Geographic Education: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and regions. The book includes map skills, geography activities, interdisciplinary units, lessons on reading and creating charts and graphs, rubrics, organizers, and an answer key. This 128-page book supports National Geography Standards.

Book Beyond Maps

    Book Details:
  • Author : John O'Looney
  • Publisher : International City/County Management Association(ICMA)
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Beyond Maps written by John O'Looney and published by International City/County Management Association(ICMA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond Maps looks beyond the mechanics of the technology to show how local governments can make geographic information systems true management tools. It explores a number of innovative ways to use GIS to improve local government operations and explains the unique capabilities of GIS. Covering a wide spectrum of applications for local governments, Beyond Maps points up the key implementation issues and common pitfalls that every state or city government needs to understand." "Packed with real-life examples, this book will help you find creative solutions to local government problems, and integrate public values into decision making."--BOOK JACKET.