An Island for Itself
Title | An Island for Itself PDF eBook |
Author | Stephan R. Epstein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2003-11-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521525077 |
Late medeival Sicily is shown to have been neither underdeveloped nor dependent on foreign trade.
An Island to Oneself
Title | An Island to Oneself PDF eBook |
Author | Allen Cooke |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-08-14 |
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The true story of a man who took it upon himself to live alone on a deserted island in the South Pacific, in fact he loved it so much he decided to return and stay a while longer! A true castaway story that deserved to be preserved for generations to come.
No Man is an Island
Title | No Man is an Island PDF eBook |
Author | John Donne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 1970 |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Title | Island of the Blue Dolphins PDF eBook |
Author | Scott O'Dell |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0395069629 |
Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
An Island Entire Unto Itself
Title | An Island Entire Unto Itself PDF eBook |
Author | Nigel Patten |
Publisher | Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2020-03-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1951530624 |
By the end of the 18th century, Corsica had been occupied by France for over thirty years. Islanders yearned to recover their lost independence, and the French Revolution gave them the opportunity. Their leader, Pasquale Paoli, realized that alone they could never defeat the well-organized French forces. He offered Corsica to King George III of England, on condition that the French were driven from the island. Based on documented historical fact, the author paints a detailed portrait of Corsica through the captivating adventures of Damian Berra, a young man from what is today the Swiss canton of Valais. After wandering through Lombardy to the Ligurian coast, as the victim of a press gang on a French frigate, he becomes marooned on Corsica, an island infested with bandits and crippled with vendettas, where murders are seven times more numerous than in mainland France. The story also describes the attempts of the English to administer an island they eventually called “The Ungovernable Rock.”
An Island to Myself
Title | An Island to Myself PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Neale |
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Release | 1966 |
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An Island to Oneself
Title | An Island to Oneself PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Neale |
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Pages | 282 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Pacific Area |
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