Tag: Islands

The Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands & Islands Travel Guide with Free eBook (Rough Guides Main Series)


Free Download The Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands & Islands: Travel Guide with Free eBook (Rough Guides Main Series) by Rough Guides
English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 1839058633 | 424 pages | MOBI | 35 Mb
The Rough Guide to the Scottish Highlands and Islands guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground. And this Scottish Highlands and Islands travel guidebook is printed on paper from responsible sources, and verified to meet the FSC’s strict environmental and social standards.

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Islands (Landforms)


Free Download Thomas F. Sheehan, "Islands (Landforms)"
English | 2007 | pages: 31 | ISBN: 1600445454 | PDF | 4,4 mb
Describes the difference between continental and oceanic islands, atolls, and cays and discusses the ecosystems found on or around islands and reefs.

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Musical Islands Exploring Connections between Music, Place and Research


Free Download Katelyn Barney, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Klisala Harrison, "Musical Islands: Exploring Connections between Music, Place and Research"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 144380956X | PDF | pages: 485 | 4.1 mb
The island is a powerful metaphor in everyday speech which extends almost naturally into several academic disciplines, including musicology. Islands are imagined as isolated and unique places where strange, exotic, different and unexpected treasures can be found by daring adventurers. The magic inherent within this positioning of islands as places of discovery is an aspect which permeates the theoretical, methodological and analytical boundaries of this edited book. Showcasing the breadth of current musicological research in Australia and New Zealand, this edited collection offers a range of subtle and innovative reflections on this concept both in established and well-charted territories of music research.

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China, Taiwan and the Offshore Islands


Free Download Thomas E. Stolper, "China, Taiwan and the Offshore Islands"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138895229 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 0.8 mb
First published in 1985, this book is about an important episode, and two of its sequels, in Beijing’s long struggle to achieve two goals, by force if necessary. First, to prevent the US from detaching Taiwan from China and establishing Taiwan as a universally recognized separate and independent country, as Russia and the Soviet Union were able to detach and establish Outer Mongolia; and second, to end the Chinese Civil War by bringing Taiwan under the rule of Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party.

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Lonely Planet Canary Islands, 8th Edition


Free Download Lonely Planet Canary Islands, 8th Edition by Isabella Noble, Ross Clarke, Sarah Gilbert
English | November 19th, 2024 | ISBN: 1788687884 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 80.31 MB
Lonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to the Canary Islands.

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Small Islands in Peril Island Size and Island Lives in Melanesia


Free Download Colin Filer, "Small Islands in Peril?: Island Size and Island Lives in Melanesia "
English | ISBN: 1760466530 | 2024 | 248 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 11 MB
This book explores the idea that small island communities could be regarded as canaries in the coal mine of sustainable development because of scientific and anecdotal evidence of a common link between rapid population growth, degradation of the local resource base, and intensification of disputes over the ownership and use of terrestrial and marine resources. The authors are all anthropologists with a specific interest in the question of whether the economic and social ‘safety valves’ that have previously served to break some of the feedback loops between these trends appear to be losing their efficacy. While much of the debate about economy-society-environment relationships on small islands has been overtaken by a narrow focus on the problem of climate change, the authors show that there are many other factors at work in the transformation of island lives and livelihoods.

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Salish Archipelago Environment and Society in the Islands Within and Adjacent to the Salish Sea


Free Download Moshe Rapaport, "Salish Archipelago: Environment and Society in the Islands Within and Adjacent to the Salish Sea "
English | ISBN: 1760466379 | 2024 | 446 pages | EPUB, PDF | 11 MB + 12 MB
The Salish Archipelago includes more than 400 islands in the Salish Sea, an amalgamation of Canada’s Georgia Strait, the United States’ Puget Sound, and the shared Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Salish Sea and Islands are named for the Coast Salish Indigenous Peoples whose homelands extend across the region.

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Moon Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands Outdoor Adventure, Indigenous Culture, Sustainable Travel, 8th Edition


Free Download Moon Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands: Outdoor Adventure, Indigenous Culture, Sustainable Travel (Moon Latin America & Caribbean Travel Guide), 8th Edition by Bethany Pitts, Moon Travel Guides
English | September 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 9798886470307 | 568 pages | True EPUB | 15.42 MB
Canoe through the Amazon, explore the bustling capital of Quito, snorkel in the Galápagos, or kick back on the coast: Embark on an unforgettable adventure with Moon Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands.

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