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Islands: Nature and Culture
Stephen A. Royle
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Description for Islands: Nature and Culture
Paperback. Filled with illustrations, Islands is a comprehensive exploration of the geographical and cultural aspects of island life - their habitation and environments, their permanent residents and vast transitional populace, their colonial history and enduring appeal to people around the world. Series: Earth. Num Pages: 224 pages, 70 colour, 30 black & white. BIC Classification: PDZ; RB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 480.
Islands are contradictory places: they can be remote, mysterious spots, or lively centres of holiday revelry. They are associated alternately with escape, imprisonment, holiday and exile, and their alluring natural beauty and remoteness has inspired artists and writers across the centuries. Islands have been places of immense scientific, political and creative importance, from Darwin's enlightening voyage to the Galapagos Islands, which resulted in his groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the moated prisons that have incarcerated dangerous convicts and freedom fighters alike.In this cultural and scientific history of these alluring, often isolated, territories, Stephen A. Royle describes the great variety of ... Read more
Islands are contradictory places: they can be remote, mysterious spots, or lively centres of holiday revelry. They are associated alternately with escape, imprisonment, holiday and exile, and their alluring natural beauty and remoteness has inspired artists and writers across the centuries. Islands have been places of immense scientific, political and creative importance, from Darwin's enlightening voyage to the Galapagos Islands, which resulted in his groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the moated prisons that have incarcerated dangerous convicts and freedom fighters alike.In this cultural and scientific history of these alluring, often isolated, territories, Stephen A. Royle describes the great variety of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Earth
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780233468
SKU
V9781780233468
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Ref
99-15
About Stephen A. Royle
Stephen A. Royle is Professor of Island Geography at Queen's University Belfast. He is a founding member of the International Small Island Studies Association, Deputy Editor of Island Studies Journal, and he has explored no less than 778 islands over many years.
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