Arctic/Amazon
Title | Arctic/Amazon PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald McMaster |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-03-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781773102993 |
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and environmental upheaval. Both regions are environmentally sensitive areas that have become hot spots in the debates circling around climate change and have long been contact zones between Indigenous Peoples and outsiders -- zones of meeting and clashing, of contradictions and entanglement. Opening with an Epistolary Exchange between the editors, Arctic/Amazon then widens to include essays by 12 Indigenous artists, curators, and knowledge-keepers about the integration of spirituality, ancestral respect, traditional knowledges, and political critique in artistic practice and more than 100 image reproductions and installation shots. The result is an extraordinary conversation about life, artistic practise, and geopolitical realities faced by Indigenous peoples in regions at risk.
Amazon Expeditions
Title | Amazon Expeditions PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Colinvaux |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 030011544X |
Økologen Paul Colinvaux beretter om års arbejde for at afdække klimaændringer i forbindelse med istiden, bl.a. hans mange ekspeditoner i Amazonas
Book of Peoples of the World
Title | Book of Peoples of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Wade Davis |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781426202384 |
From the foremost authority on history and civilization comes the definitive guide to world cultures--showcasing human diversity in all its vast and startling richness. 235 color photographs and 37 maps.
Arctic Dreams
Title | Arctic Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Lopez |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2013-06-25 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1480409146 |
This New York Times–bestselling exploration of the Arctic, a National Book Award winner, is “one of the finest books ever written about the far North” (Publishers Weekly). “The nation’s premier nature writer” travels to a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring, austere yet teeming with vibrant life, and shot through with human history (San Francisco Chronicle). The Arctic has for centuries been a destination for the most ambitious explorers—a place of dreams, fears, and awe-inspiring spectacle. This “dazzling” account by the author of Of Wolves and Men takes readers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of one of the world’s last frontiers (The New York Times). Based on Barry Lopez’s years spent traveling the Arctic regions in the company of Eskimo hunting parties and scientific expeditions alike, Arctic Dreams investigates the unique terrain of the human mind, thrown into relief against the vastness of the tundra and the frozen ocean. Eye-opening and profoundly moving, it is a magnificent appreciation of how wilderness challenges and inspires us. Renowned environmentalist and author of Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey has called Arctic Dreams “a splendid book . . . by a man who is both a first-rate writer and an uncompromising defender of the wild country and its native inhabitants”—and the New Yorker hails it as a “landmark” work of travel writing. A vivid, thoughtful, and atmospheric read, it has earned multiple prizes, including the National Book Award, the Christopher Medal, the Oregon Book Award, and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barry Lopez including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
The Age of the Arctic
Title | The Age of the Arctic PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Osherenko |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2005-06-08 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780521619714 |
This book will be essential reading for all interested in this important region of the world.
Amazon
Title | Amazon PDF eBook |
Author | Dennison Berwick |
Publisher | Dennison Berwick |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780091734909 |
58 Degrees North
Title | 58 Degrees North PDF eBook |
Author | Hugo Kugiya |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1596918381 |
In the spring of 2001, an industrial fishing trawler went down in the icy waters just below the Arctic Circle, with its position last recorded at 58 degrees north. The Arctic Rose sank so abruptly that there was not even time to put on survival suits or call for help, and all fifteen men aboard were killed. Hugo Kugiya's book is a powerful story of adventure and disaster, illuminating how the modern industrial fishing industry gave rise to these fifteen young men's dangerous and strangely archaic life, and tracing the Coast Guard investigation into what really sank the Arctic Rose. Hugo Kugiya has worked as a journalist for fifteen years, reporting for the Orlando Sentinel, the Seattle Times, and Newsday, among others. His 2001 series on the sinking of the Arctic Rose won Newsday's Publisher's Award. He lives in Seattle with his daughter. This is his first book. "Highly readable... the portraits of the doomed fishermen-Capt. Dave Randall, Mexican immigrant Angel Mendez (seen mostly through the eyes of his widow), amiable drifter Eddie Haynes-grip and fascinate...Bound to suck in maritime buffs."-Publishers Weekly "Kugiya ably reconstructs events and characters...a crew fit for a World War II film, all facing a cruel sea."-Hollywood Reporter "Sympathetic to the difficulties that fishermen face but not sentimental, Kugiya puts a human face on an assortment of drifters, illegal aliens, and small businessmen, all hard-working men who turned to the sea for escape or a means to a new start. An intriguing look into one of the most dangerous occupations in America."-Library Journal