Download or read book Bahama Saga written by Peter Barratt and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BAHAMA SAGA is a chronicle of the human presence on a unique archipelago of the Americas . The story takes its title from a few invented characters and the romantic and beautiful country of seven hundred sub-tropical islands. The confetti of Bahamian islands has, at different times, been a locus for the three races of the planet. After the original Amerindian inhabitants perished, the Bahamas remained uninhabited for nearly 150 years until people from Bermuda - largely of English and African stock - re-settled the islands commencing in 1648. Not long afterwards many more Africans were brought to the Bahamas in bondage. Their descendants today hold the destiny of the islands in their hands. The geographical location of the Bahamas allowed the islands to play a brief, but important part in the history of the modern world. The eastern islands protrude out into the Atlantic Ocean so as to make them one of the nearest parts of the Americas to Europe and it was here that an explorer from Europe made a historic landfall at what, for him at least, was a ' New World '. It was just over five hundred years ago that Christopher Columbus in 1492 'sailed the ocean blue'. The islands on the western side are a mere 50 miles from the United States . Throughout time, events on the North American continent have had a major affect upon the history of the Bahama Islands as this well-written and intriguing story relates.
Download or read book The Island Airman and His Bahama Islands Home written by Paul C. Aranha and published by Media Enterprises. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bahama Islands Some Facts You Should Know written by Patricia Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bahama Islands: Some Facts You Should Know The author provides her readers with just enough facts about the major Bahama Islands that for the visitor offers them a sneak peek into the Island experience and for local residents a great keepsake that highlights the vast archipelago of Islands where many perhaps have yet to visit. This informative and interactive book includes not only facts on each major Island but also maps, quizzes, puzzles, diagrams, national symbols, questions and other activities associated with many aspects of Bahamian life and culture. It is a great learning resource for those who wish to know more about the beauty and mystique of The Bahamas, a place like no other, rich in culture and steeped in pride.
Download or read book Homeward Bound written by Sandra Riley and published by RILEY HALL. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporters of the British Crown found life in the Colonies rigorous in the years prior to, during, and after the Revolutionary War. The hazards of war and the inequities of peace forced many American Loyalists into Bahamian exile.
Download or read book A Birder s Guide to the Bahama Islands including Turks and Caicos written by Anthony W. White and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the 300 Caribbean and North American species that have been recorded on all of the major islands, numerous smaller cays, and the less developed Family Islands. This guide is the first in the series to cover a region outside of the ABA area. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The natural history of Carolina Florida and the Bahama Islands written by Mark Catesby and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1974 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their descriptions in English and French.
Download or read book Stark s History and Guide to the Bahama Islands written by James Henry Stark and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stark'S History and Guide to the Bahama Islands by James Stark Henry, first published in 1891, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book Birds of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands written by Bruce Hallett and published by MacMillan Caribbean. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive ornithological guide introducing both visitors and residents to the bird life of the Bahamas Archipelago and the neighbouring Turks and Caicos Islands. The text contains colour photos and information on the breeding birds of the region plus the most commonly recorded migrants that either pass through on their way to other destinations or stay during the winter season. The author has divided the birds into two sections, land and water. Not every bird that has been recorded in the region is included but emphasis is on how to recognize or identify the various species and their plumages plus information on how the birds are distributed in the islands and whether or not they are common, uncommon or rare. Behaviour and habitat preferences are covered as well as calls and songs.
Download or read book Grand Bahama written by P. J. H. Barratt and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bahama Islands written by Hans W. Hannau and published by E.A. Seemann Publishing. This book was released on 1977-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial volume of all the islands making up the Bahama Islands.
Download or read book History of the Bahama Islands with a Special Study of the Abolition of Slavery in the Colony written by James Martin Wright and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds of the Bahama Islands written by Charles Barney Cory and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fishes of the Bahama Islands written by Barton Appler Bean and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vegetation of the Bahama Islands written by William Chambers Coker and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islanders in the Stream A History of the Bahamian People written by Michael Craton and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two leading historians of Bahamian history comes this groundbreaking work on a unique archipelagic nation. Islanders in the Stream is not only the first comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people, it is also the first work of its kind and scale for any Caribbean nation. This comprehensive volume details the full, extraordinary history of all the people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighboring territories in similar circumstances. Divided into three sections, this volume covers the period from aboriginal times to the end of formal slavery in 1838. The first part includes authoritative accounts of Columbus’s first landfall in the New World on San Salvador island, his voyage through the Bahamas, and the ensuing disastrous collision of European and native Arawak cultures. Covering the islands’ initial settlement, the second section ranges from the initial European incursions and the first English settlements through the lawless era of pirate misrule to Britain’s official takeover and development of the colony in the eighteenth century. The third, and largest, section offers a full analysis of Bahamian slave society through the great influx of Empire Loyalists and their slaves at the end of the American Revolution to the purported achievement of full freedom for the slaves in 1838. This work is both a pioneering social history and a richly illustrated narrative modifying previous Eurocentric interpretations of the islands’ early history. Written to appeal to Bahamians as well as all those interested in Caribbean history, Islanders in the Stream looks at the islands and their people in their fullest contexts, constituting not just the most thorough view of Bahamian history to date but a major contribution to Caribbean historiography.
Download or read book Last Lights written by Ann Westervelt Potts and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of the last manned kerosene powered lighthouses in the world. These lighthouses were built in the Bahamas in the nineteenth century by the British Imperial Lighthouse Service and are now maintained by the Bahamian Government. It is mainly a photographic essay with additional written text.
Download or read book New Records of Birds from the Bahama Islands Notulae Naturae of The Acad of Natural Sciences of Phila No 394 written by and published by Academy of Natural Sciences. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
