[PDF] Amazon Diary eBook

Author : Roger Casement
Publisher : Anaconda Editions
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1901990001

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"This book, from the previously unpublished manuscript in the National Library of Ireland, is a valuable and deeply detailed edition of the diary kept by Casement during his journey into the South American rainforests. He had been sent by the British government to report on atrocities against tribal people while being forced to collect rubber in the Putumayo region in the north-west Amazon. Genocide among the Amazon Indians has continued, but external investigations of this kind have been rare. The way in which Roger Casement carried out his work is still relevant to all kinds of humanitarian and whistle-blowing activities. It is also a key text charting Casement's transition from observer to anti-imperial revolutionary and Irish independence leader, culminating in his execution by the British government in August 1916 after the Easter Rising."

Author : Eóin Flannery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135108994

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This book is the first truly interdisciplinary intervention into the burgeoning field of Irish ecological criticism. Providing original and nuanced readings of Irish cultural texts and personalities in terms of contemporary ecological criticism, Flannery’s readings of Irish literary fiction, poetry, travel writing, non-fiction, and essay writing are ground-breaking in their depth and scope. Explorations of figures and texts from Irish cultural and political history, including John McGahern, Derek Mahon, Roger Casement, and Tim Robinson, among many others, enable and invigorate the discipline of Irish cultural studies, and international ecocriticism on the whole. This book addresses the need to impress the urgency of lateral ecological awareness and responsibility among Irish cultural and political commentators; to highlight continuities and disparities between Irish ecological thought, writing, and praxis, and those of differential international writers, critics, and activists; and to establish both the singularity and contiguity of Irish ecological criticism to the wider international field of ecological criticism. With the introduction of concepts such as ecocosmopolitanism, "deep" history, ethics of proximity, Gaia Theory, urban ecology, and postcolonial environmentalism to Irish cultural studies, it takes Irish cultural studies in bracing new directions. Flannery furnishes working examples of the necessary interdisciplinarity of ecological criticism, and impresses the relevance of the Irish context to the broader debates within international ecological criticism. Crucially, the volume imports ecological critical paradigms into the field of Irish studies, and demonstrates the value of such conceptual dialogue for the future of Irish cultural and political criticism. This pioneering intervention exhibits the complexity of different Irish cultural and historical responses to ecological exploitation, degradation, and social justice.

Author : Robert Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1136953442

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Looking at travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography and more, Burroughs examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As Burroughs articulates, as well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives importantly contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

Author : Roger Sawyer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1446413330

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Born in Ireland in 1864 Roger Casement acted as British Consul in various parts of Africa (1895-1904) and Brazil (1906-11) where he denounced atrocities among Congolese and Putumayo rubber workers. knighted in 1911, He returned to Ireland, where as an ardent nationalist he attempted to enlist German help for the cause. He was hanged for high treason in London in 1916. A compulsive diary writer, his so-called 'Black' Diaries were finally released into the public domain in 1994. At the time of his trial, these diaries-detailing his promiscuous homosexual activities in Brazil-were used to condemn him and, subsequently, to poison his reputation. Published here for the first time-as are his more public 'White' Diaries of the same year-they not only offer the reader the opportunity to judge their authenticity-still a matter of heated debate-but they also take us deep into the mind of the bravest, most selfless and practical humanitarian of the Edwardian age.

Author : Roger Harris
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781841621739

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This new edition has been completely revised with updated information on hotels, lodges and tour operators. It contains a detailed and illustrated natural history section on native species and habitats. The Amazon is an ideal location for eco-travellers, naturalists, sports enthusiasts and explorers. Travellers are given sound advice on responsible travel and planning their own expedition.

Author : Geoffrey O'Connor
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Peopled by a colorful cast of real-life characters, AMAZON JOURNAL is documentary filmmaker Geoffrey O'Connor's critical look at how cultural differences in the Amazon have resulted in incidents ranging from comic misunderstandings to blatant exploitation, environmental disaster, and even genocide.

Author : Hudson Talbott
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 1998-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780613512749

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Twelve-year-old Alex is rescued from a plane crash by the Yanomami Indians of Venezuela and spends several weeks in the Amazon jungle with them, learning and appreciating their way of life.

Author : Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
Publisher : American Tropics Towards a Lit
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 178694183X

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A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.

Author : Deane, S., and Deane, C.
Publisher : Field Day Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 094675554X

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Field Day Review, the finest essays in Irish Studies

Author : Colm Toibin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780743244671

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Colm Tóibín knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality in literature. In Love in a Dark Time, he also describes the solace of finding like-minded companions through reading. Colm Tóibín examines the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential writers of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives, either by choice or necessity. The larger world couldn't know about their sexuality, but in their private lives, and in the spirit of their work, the laws of desire defined their expression. This is an intimate encounter with Mann, Baldwin, Bishop, and with the contemporary poets Thom Gunn and Mark Doty. Through their work, Tóibín is able to come to terms with his own inner desires—his interest in secret erotic energy, his admiration for courageous figures, and his abiding fascination with sadness and tragedy. Tóibín looks both at writers forced to disguise their true experience on the page and at readers who find solace and sexual identity by reading between the lines.