Download or read book The Island of Singing Fish written by Tina Faulk and published by Australian Geographic. This book was released on 2014 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceylon is a magical island which has enchanted adventurers, writers and soldiers for thousands of years. It has, over six centuries, been ruled by three Great European Powers, Portuguese, Dutch and British. The legacy of these remain, in the language, culture, architecture and - most of all - the islanders themselves. This is the story of a Sri Lankan family that began over five hundred years ago when Roelof Dircksz, a young Dutch trader working for the East India Company (the VOC) came ashore and married into a spice trader family in Galle Fort. Five century laters, two official government policies, in two different countries, transform the lives of the author and her family. Compelled to emigrate to Australia, they seek out old family records in an effort to prove their European heritage and their investigations turn up some very surprising family histories. Sri Lanka is a magical island that has enchanted adventurers, writers and soldiers for thousands of years. Over six centuries it has been ruled by three great European powers: the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. Their legacy remains in the history, language, culture, and, most of all, in the islanders themselves.
Download or read book The Singing Fish written by Peter Markus and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. The interwoven tales that make up THE SINGING FISH are not told but rather spun from a primal, almost child-like source of mythic language sublimated from the fundamental building blocks of mud, brother, river, girl, moon, fish and a rusted nail. "Peter Markus' gorgeously spare, riverine fables of brotherly sweetness and violence are hypnotic, haunting, and sublime"--Gary Lutz. "There is an obsessive quality about Peter Markus' writing that I am obsessed with and a musicality that I cannot get out of my head. The fish are singing and Peter Markus is too"--Michael Kimball.
Download or read book Seek The Singing Fish written by Roma Wells and published by époque press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in the lagoon town of Batticaloa, a young girl, with an unquenchable curiosity and love of the natural world, is entangled in the trauma and turmoil of the Sri Lankan civil war. Uprooted from everything she holds dear, tragedy and betrayal set in motion an unforgettable odyssey. Torn from east to west, struggling with what it means to belong, she desperately seeks a way home to the land of the singing fish.
Download or read book Donald and the Singing Fish written by Peter Lubach and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seek The Singing Fish written by Roma Wells and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fish Can Sing written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved novels from the Nobel Prize winner—"a beacon in twentieth-century literature" (Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author of Dear Life). A poignant coming-of-age tale marked with the peculiar Icelandic blend of light irony and dark humor. • With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres. The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly couple. Alfgrimur dreams only of becoming a fisherman like his adoptive grandfather, until he meets Iceland's biggest celebrity. The opera singer Gardar Holm’s international fame is a source of tremendous pride to tiny, insecure Iceland, though no one there has ever heard him sing. A mysterious man who mostly avoids his homeland and repeatedly fails to perform for his adoring countrymen, Gardar takes a particular interest in Alfgrimur’s budding musical talent and urges him to seek out the world beyond the one he knows and loves. But as Alfgrimur discovers that Gardar is not what he seems, he begins to confront the challenge of finding his own path without turning his back on where he came from.
Download or read book A Tale of the Singing Fish written by Ada Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oma is a poor, greedy, and selfish woman that met a kind, generous, and singing fish at the river. The fish, "Big Heart," befriended Oma but Oma wasn't very nice in return. The battle of wills between the fish and the woman makes this book a moral and entertaining piece for the reader. This book is an illustrated chapter book. The story reminds the author of her time growing up in Nigeria. Story time was one of the privileges that she enjoyed as a child. She hope that through this book her readers will appreciate some of the subtle ways that her culture passes down knowledge, to the young through Folktales. You can find other books by the author at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other book stores. Also, look up Chidinma Onyegbaduo for more books.
Download or read book The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ceylon a Handbook for the Resident and the Traveller written by John Christopher Willis and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Monthly Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Musical Gift written by Jim Sykes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Musical Gift tells Sri Lanka's music history as a story of giving between humans and nonhumans, and between populations defined by difference. Author Jim Sykes argues that in the recent past, the genres we recognize today as Sri Lanka's esteemed traditional musics were not originally about ethnic or religious identity, but were gifts to gods and people intended to foster protection and/or healing. Noting that the currently assumed link between music and identity helped produce the narratives of ethnic difference that drove Sri Lanka's civil war (1983-2009), Sykes argues that the promotion of connected music histories has a role to play in post-war reconciliation. The Musical Gift includes a study of how NGOs used music to promote reconciliation in Sri Lanka, and it contains a theorization of the relations between musical gifts and commodities. Eschewing a binary between the gift and identity, Sykes claims the world's music history is largely a story of entanglement between both paradigms. Drawing on fieldwork conducted widely across Sri Lanka over a span of eleven years--including the first study of Sinhala Buddhist drumming in English and the first ethnography of music-making in the former warzones of the north and east--this book brings anthropology's canonic literature on "the gift" into music studies, while drawing on anthropology's recent "ontological turn" and "the new materialism" in religious studies.
Download or read book Review of Reviews for Australasia written by William Henry Fitchett and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sing Like Fish written by Amorina Kingdon and published by Crown. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes—from an award-winning science writer “Sing Like Fish is that rare book that makes you see the world differently.”—Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod For centuries, humans ignored sound in the “silent world” of the ocean, assuming that what we couldn’t perceive, didn’t exist. But we couldn’t have been more wrong. Marine scientists now have the technology to record and study the complex interplay of the myriad sounds in the sea. Finally, we can trace how sounds travel with the currents, bounce from the seafloor and surface, bend with the temperature and even saltiness; how sounds help marine life survive; and how human noise can transform entire marine ecosystems. In Sing Like Fish, award-winning science journalist Amorina Kingdon synthesizes historical discoveries with the latest scientific research in a clear and compelling portrait of this sonic undersea world. From plainfin midshipman fish, whose swim-bladder drumming is loud enough to keep houseboat-dwellers awake, to the syntax of whalesong; from the deafening crackle of snapping shrimp, to the seismic resonance of underwater earthquakes and volcanoes; sound plays a vital role in feeding, mating, parenting, navigating, and warning—even in animals that we never suspected of acoustic ability. Meanwhile, we jump in our motorboats and cruise ships, oblivious to the impact below us. Our lifestyle is fueled by oil in growling tankers and furnished by goods that travel in massive container ships. Our seas echo with human-made sound, but we are just learning of the repercussions of anthropogenic noise on the marine world’s delicate acoustic ecosystems—masking mating calls, chasing animals from their food, and even wounding creatures, from plankton to lobsters. With intimate and artful prose, Sing Like Fish tells a uniquely complete story of ocean animals’ submerged sounds, envisions a quieter future, and offers a profound new understanding of the world below the surface.
