[PDF] The Creation Of Peninsulas eBook

Author : Bridget Heos
Publisher : Rosen Central
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435856004

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Describes the formation, characteristics, and properties of peninsulas.

Author : Bridget Heos
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1435853016

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Explores what it takes to create, destroy, and inhabit peninsulas.

Author : Josh Hanna
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1625855818

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Offshore fishermen and skillful shipbuilders transformed the quiet shores of the Pemaquid Peninsula beginning in 1815. The maritime economy drove local commerce until enterprising locals turned to ice harvesting, granite quarrying, brick making, lobster canning and pogy oil processing before summer tourism grew and thrived. The descendants of revolutionaries became the faces of a more prosperous generation--men like Albert Thorpe, who ran a popular summer hotel on the grounds where his grandfather had salted and dried his catch decades earlier. Today, summer rusticators discover the enduring natural beauty at the heart of the Pemaquid Peninsula. Journey to the past with Pemaquid native and historian Josh Hanna as he discovers these timeless shores.

Author : Khaldoun Nassan Al-Naqeeb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136251995

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This book is both a history and contemporary analysis. Charting the main turnpoints as the growth of cities, trade routes, the petroleum industry and growth of the authoritarian state the author argues that central bureaucratic control is limiting growth. He describes the state as governed by the interests of the ruling family who continue to block opportunities for social mobility. He is also critical of the lack of a broad, productive base in the economy, the export of capital and its effect on investment in local resources, as well as the technological dependence on the West.

Author : Billy Colfer
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1859183786

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"The Hook Peninsula continues the Irish Rural Landscape series, building on the research agenda established by the internationally successful Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape. Located in county Wexford, this region was the first to be conquered by the Anglo-Normans and its landscape was shaped by the establishment of two Cistercian abbeys (Tintern and Dunbrody) in the Middle Ages. The location of the peninsula beside a major estuary and busy shipping lanes was of vital importance. The Hook figured prominently in the Confederate Wars in the seventeenth century and in the 1798 rebellion." "This compact and highly distinctive peninsula makes for a compelling case-study in which Billy Colfer carefully knits the local story into a wider narrative. An eye for detail and an intuitive understanding of his local community creates a vivid story, while Colfer's obvious love for the Hook infuses the volume with an underlying passion all the more moving for being understated. Ireland, 'an island nation', has at last a volume informed by a maritime perspective from a writer who understands the sea and its formative influence on landscapes and lives. In these beautiful pages, an astonishing array of maps, photographs, paintings, archive sketches and new drawings ensure that the Hook landscape is given a radiant treatment."--BOOK JACKET.