Portrait of an Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portrait of an Island write by Mildred Teal. This book was released on 1997-10-01. Portrait of an Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Mildred and John Teal moved to Sapelo Island, Georgia, in 1955, they stepped back in time to a virtually undeveloped landscape of salt marsh, maritime forest, freshwater ponds, sand dunes, and beaches. Over the course of a four-year stay their careful observations of the island's unique marine ecology and wonderfully varied flora and fauna became the basis for Portrait of an Island. The island's human history dates back more than four thousand years. The lure of Sapelo has drawn many to its shores, including tobacco millionaire R. J. Reynolds, who established the University of Georgia Marine Institute there in the 1950s. Surrounded by sixteen thousand acres of pristine marsh, Sapelo offers researchers and the public a rare opportunity for environmental studies. Now a state game refuge and national estuarine sanctuary, the island remains a special haven where humans and nature quietly and peacefully coexist. Portrait of an Island is essential reading for anyone who treasures tranquility.
Antigua Black; Portrait of an Island People
Antigua Black; Portrait of an Island People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antigua Black; Portrait of an Island People write by Margo Baumgarten Davis. This book was released on 1973. Antigua Black; Portrait of an Island People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Portrait of an Island
Portrait of an Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portrait of an Island write by Mark Hinchman. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Portrait of an Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The once famous trading center of Gorée, Sénégal today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Gorée became one of the intersections which linked African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then, as now, people of all nationalities poured into the island; Dutch, English, French, and Portuguese came to trade with the Mande, Moor, Tukor, and Wolf tribes. Trading parties brought gold, horses, firewood, mirrors, books, and more. They built houses of various forms, using American lumber, French roof tiles, freshly‑cut straw, and pulverized seashells, and furnished them in as cosmopolitan a fashion as the city itself. Mark Hinchman's Portrait of an Island: The Architecture and Material Culture of Gorée, Sénégal, 1758‑1837 considers the houses, portraits, and furnishings of the island's early modern inhabitants. Multiple features of eighteenth‑century Gorée‑‑its demographic diversity, the prominence of women leaders, the phenomenon of identities in flux, and the importance of commerce, fashion, and international trade‑‑argue for its place in the construction of an early global modernity. In an examination of the built and natural landscape, Portrait of an Island deciphers the material culture involved in the ever‑changing relationships amongst male, female, rich, poor, and slave.
Granite Island
Granite Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Granite Island write by Dorothy Carrington. This book was released on 2015-04-30. Granite Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. GRANITE ISLAND, much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably vivid and delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality and poetry.
Nature of Australia
Nature of Australia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature of Australia write by John Vandenbeld. This book was released on 1988. Nature of Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a rich appreciation of Australia's unique natural history, tracing the origins of the continent and the relation of its flora and fauna to those of other lands, plus information on the coral reefs, and the deserts
