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Book PROVIDENCIA ISLAND

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  • Author : Alan L. Smith
  • Publisher : Geological Society of America
  • Release : 2021-09-22
  • ISBN : 081371219X
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book PROVIDENCIA ISLAND written by Alan L. Smith and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents new and previously published results for the geology, geochemistry, petrology and isotopic ages from the Providencia island group to unravel its complex history and evolution"--

Book PROVIDENCIA ISLAND  COLOMBIA

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  • Author : Gurubashi Travels
  • Publisher : GURUBASHI SL
  • Release : 2014-08-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book PROVIDENCIA ISLAND COLOMBIA written by Gurubashi Travels and published by GURUBASHI SL. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Guide and Art Book of Isla de Providencia, COLOMBIA. Tranquil beaches of soft white sand and scattered palm trees are but one of the things that truly make Providencia and Santa Catalina paradise. Possibly the Caribbean's best kept secret, the islands have not been touched by the commercialism you'll find in other holiday destinations.

Book The Genealogical History of Providencia Island

Download or read book The Genealogical History of Providencia Island written by Joy Cordell Robinson and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settled in the seventeenth century by Puritans, Providence Island, as it was then known, attracted a wide diversity of people from around the world over the next three centuries, including English, Scottish, Afro-Caribbean, American Indian, Irish, Polish, Swedish, Austrian, Chinese, and Spanish immigrants. Part One of this book provides an historical, religious, and cultural background to the development of Providencia Island. Part Two contains genealogical listings of the Robinson, Archbold, Howard, Newball, Taylor, and Britton families, and of those interrelated with them.

Book The Island that Disappeared

Download or read book The Island that Disappeared written by Tom Feiling and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans of the Mayflower--but what about the story of its sister ship, the Seaflower. Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. They were convinced that England’s empire would rise not in barren New England, but rather in tropical Central America. However, Providence became a colony in constant crisis: crops failed, slaves revolted . . . and then there were the pirates. And, as Tom Feiling discovers in this surprising history, the same drama was played out by the men and women who re-settled the island one hundred years later. The Island That Disappeared presents Providence as a fascinating microcosm of colonialism--even today. At first glance it is an island of devout churchgoers - but look a little closer, and you see that it is still dependent on its smugglers. At once intimate and global, this story of puritans and pirates goes to the heart of the contradictory nature of the Caribbean and how the Western World took shape.

Book Providencia Island

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  • Author : Alan L. Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9780813782195
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Providencia Island written by Alan L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents new and previously published results for the geology, geochemistry, petrology and isotopic ages from the Providencia island group to unravel its complex history and evolution"--

Book Providencia

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  • Author : Sean Frederick Forbes
  • Publisher : 2Leaf Press
  • Release : 2015-07-13
  • ISBN : 194093902X
  • Pages : 117 pages

Download or read book Providencia written by Sean Frederick Forbes and published by 2Leaf Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PROVIDENCIA, Sean Frederick Forbes’s debut poetry collection, offers deeply personal poetry that digs beneath the surface of family history and myth. This coming of age narrative traces the experience of a gay, mixed-race narrator who confronts the traditions of his parents’ and grandparents’ birthplace: the seemingly idyllic island of Providencia, Colombia against the backdrop of his rough and lonely life in Southside Jamaica, Queens. These lyric poems open doors onto a third space for the speaker, one that does not isolate or hinder his sexual, racial, and artistic identities. Written in both free verse and traditional poetic forms, PROVIDENCIA conjures numerous voices, images, and characters to explore the struggles of self-discovery.

Book Guide to Standard Floras of the World

Download or read book Guide to Standard Floras of the World written by David G. Frodin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 book provides a selective annotated bibliography of the principal floras and related works of inventory for vascular plants. The second edition was completely updated and expanded to take into account the substantial literature of the late twentieth century, and features a more fully developed review of the history of floristic documentation. The works covered are principally specialist publications such as floras, checklists, distribution atlases, systematic iconographies and enumerations or catalogues, although a relatively few more popularly oriented books are also included. The Guide is organised in ten geographical divisions, with these successively divided into regions and units, each of which is prefaced with a historical review of floristic studies. In addition to the bibliography, the book includes general chapters on botanical bibliography, the history of floras, and general principles and current trends, plus an appendix on bibliographic searching, a lexicon of serial abbreviations, and author and geographical indexes.

Book Our Island in the Sun

Download or read book Our Island in the Sun written by ,Garry and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never intended to "really" read this book. My goal before reviewing it was to "peruse" it and stop now and then when a particular passage caught my attention. Just read enough to do an honest review. But I sat down early in the morning and began actually reading the book. Just to get started. Page one lead to page two and to page three and page 4 etc. and soon I was into the book. I stopped to eat breakfast but I couldn't wait to get back to the story. Garry says the book is not a "cruising handbook". Maybe not but it's certainly a "cruiser primer" in my opinion. I can't think of much he leaves out in terms of the life of a cruiser. Maybe Pirates. But that is it. I like the way Carol writes her own accounts of the adventure. It's good to see two perspectives of the same situation and experience. The psychological aspect of long-distance cruising can be as interesting as the pragmatic side of keeping a boat going. Carol and Garry both give you great insights into this very personal side of the adventure. If I were to criticize the book I'd say from a designers perspective, I would have liked to see some more descriptions of the other boats Garry and Carol encountered on their voyage. That's just me. When I finished the book I remembered saying, "Long range cruising is all about fixing your boat in exotic places". Bob Perry

Book Island Anecdotes

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  • Author : Riva Fidel Robinson, M.D.
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2010-04-23
  • ISBN : 0557419948
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Island Anecdotes written by Riva Fidel Robinson, M.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of historical anecdotes about the Colombian islands of San Andres and Providencia. The book contains various anecdotes that range from pirate lore to Hemingway's visit to World II adventures.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book BP 250

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  • Author : R. Reginald
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 0809512068
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book BP 250 written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Annotated Bibliography of the First 300 Publications of the Borgo Press, 1975-1998

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rogue Revolutionaries

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  • Author : Vanessa Mongey
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2020-10-23
  • ISBN : 0812252551
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Rogue Revolutionaries written by Vanessa Mongey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1822, the Mary departed Philadelphia and sailed in the direction of the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico. Like most vessels that navigated the Caribbean, the Mary brought together men who had served under a dozen different flags over the years. Unlike most crews, those aboard the Mary were in a different line of commerce: they exported revolution. In addition to rifles and pistols, the Mary transported a box filled with proclamations announcing the creation of the "Republic of Boricua." This imagined republic rested on one principle: equal rights for all, regardless of birthplace, race, or religion. The leaders of the expedition had never set foot in Puerto Rico. And they never would. When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simón Bolívar might come to mind. But Rogue Revolutionaries recovers the interconnected stories of now-forgotten "foreigners of desperate fortune" who dreamt of overthrowing colonial monarchy and creating their own countries. They were not members of the political and economic elite; rather, they were ship captains, military veterans, and enslaved soldiers. As a history of ideas and geopolitics grounded in the narratives of extraordinary lives, Rogue Revolutionaries shows how these men of different nationalities and ethnicities claimed revolution as a universal right and reimagined notions of sovereignty, liberty, and decolonization. In the midst of wars and upheavals, the question of who had the legitimacy to launch a revolution and to start a new country was open to debate. Behind the growing power of nation-states, Mongey uncovers a lost world of radical cosmopolitanism grounded in the pursuit of material interests and personal prestige. In demonstrating that these would-be revolutionaries and their fleeting republics were critical to the creation of a new international order, Mongey reminds us of the importance of attending to failures, dead ends, and the unpredictable nature of history.

Book Managing Mature Regionalism

Download or read book Managing Mature Regionalism written by Kenneth Hall and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its inception, The Integrationist publications have sought to invite regional scholarship, rigorous research and to draw upon the inestimable depth of writings of the regions intellectuals, academics and technical experts on various development perspectives, policy options, analyses and recommendations relative to the Caribbean Communitys integration process and its overall development agenda. In so doing, The Integrationist offers a rich resource and reference point for Caribbean leaders, policymakers and, ultimately, the regional citizenry on integration, on unique problems faced by the region, on current realities and solutions or options from which the region may choose on its path to development.

Book The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean

Download or read book The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean written by Sharika D. Crawford and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea. Crawford places the green and hawksbill sea turtles and the Caymanian turtlemen who hunted them at the center of this waterscape. The story of the humble turtle and its hunter, she argues, came to play a significant role in shaping the maritime boundaries of the modern Caribbean. Crawford describes the colonial Caribbean as an Atlantic commons where all could compete to control the region's diverse peoples, lands, and waters and exploit the region's raw materials. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Crawford traces and connects the expansion and decline of turtle hunting to matters of race, labor, political and economic change, and the natural environment. Like the turtles they chased, the boundary-flouting laborers exposed the limits of states' sovereignty for a time but ultimately they lost their livelihoods, having played a significant role in legislation delimiting maritime boundaries. Still, former turtlemen have found their deep knowledge valued today in efforts to protect sea turtles and recover the region's ecological sustainability.

Book Crossing Boundaries

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  • Author : Brian D. Behnken
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2013-06-27
  • ISBN : 0739181319
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Crossing Boundaries written by Brian D. Behnken and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World explores ethnic and racial nationalism within a transnational and transcultural framework in the long twentieth century (late nineteenth to early twenty-first century). The contributors to this volume examine how national solidarity and identity—with their vast array of ideological, political, intellectual, social, and ethno-racial qualities—crossed juridical, territorial, and cultural boundaries to become transnational; how they altered the ethnic and racial visions of nation-states throughout the twentieth century; and how they ultimately influenced conceptions of national belonging across the globe. Human beings live in an increasingly interconnected, transnational, global world. National economies are linked worldwide, information can be transmitted around the world in seconds, and borders are more transparent and fluid. In this process of transnational expansion, the very definition of what constitutes a nation and nationalism in many parts of the world has been expanded to include individuals from different countries, and, more importantly, members of ethno-racial communities. But crossing boundaries is not a new phenomenon. In fact, transnationalism has a long and sordid history that has not been fully appreciated. Scholars and laypeople interested in national development, ethnic nationalism, as well as world history will find Crossing Boundaries indispensable.