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730 million people—almost 10% of the world’s population—inhabit islands. One quarter of the states represented at the United Nations are islands. Islands constitute almost twenty percent of the total land area of Greece, and exhibit more significant aspects of biodiversity than other global contexts. They are both occasions of triumph and occurrences of catastrophe. Islands are both open and enclosed communities, points of arrival and departure. Islands exert a fascination for the visitor and generate, in the islander, both positive and negative mindsets. The romantic fallacies about self-sufficiency and insularity of islands are constantly challenged. This collection of essays by scholars from some of the world’s most compelling islands—Jersey, Ireland, Tasmania, Corfu, Ereikousa, Prince Edward Island, Malta—explores the psychology of islands, islanders and their visitors, the literatures they stimulate, and the scientific, ethical and biogeographical issues they present in an increasingly globalised world. Corfu, the home of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell in the 1930s, and host to literary and scientific enquiry, is the place where this collection was conceived, and occupies a central place in its discussions.
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Genre |
: Psychology |
Author |
: Richard Pine |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Release |
: 2020-02-05 |
File |
: 282 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781527546615 |
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Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Release |
: 1958 |
File |
: 100 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811200418 |
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Focuses specifically on the concept and role of islands in the medieval world. The main characteristic of an island is, of course, that of being isolated from the rest of the world; in geography by waters, in more abstract and symbolic meanings by other kinds of separating borders. Islands were the place 'on the other side', of difference, otherness and remoteness. As one of the articles in this volume puts it, islands are often depicted "as sites for extraordinary events and happenings".
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Gerhard Jaritz |
Publisher |
: Central European University Press |
Release |
: 2011-10-15 |
File |
: 152 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9786155053252 |
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An exploration of the human drive to understand and chart the world's islands describes how islands represent spiritual refuge, tranquility, and mystery to people; explores western culture's relationship with islands throughout history, and shares the adventures of explorers and adventurers who contributed to today's Atlantic society. 20,000 first printing.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: John R. Gillis |
Publisher |
: Palgrave MacMillan |
Release |
: 2004 |
File |
: 217 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 1403965064 |
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: |
Author |
: William Ogilvie Porter |
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: |
Release |
: 1878 |
File |
: 650 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IOWA:31858007129459 |
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Genre |
: Animism |
Author |
: Edward Burnett Tylor |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1889 |
File |
: 492 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105027371892 |
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Genre |
: Christianity |
Author |
: Ian Maclaren |
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: |
Release |
: 1896 |
File |
: 356 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UVA:X030809713 |
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Genre |
: Prince Edward Island |
Author |
: Prince Edward Island |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1875 |
File |
: 1382 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OSU:32437010804082 |
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Genre |
: Landscape protection |
Author |
: New York (State). State Survey |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1880 |
File |
: 166 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCAL:$B630318 |
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Genre |
: Civilization, Medieval |
Author |
: Henry Osborn Taylor |
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: |
Release |
: 1949 |
File |
: 634 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015002999277 |