[PDF] The Last Island eBook

Author : Zülfü Livaneli
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 163542223X

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From the internationally bestselling author of Disquiet, a brilliant political allegory that vividly illustrates how capitalism and authoritarianism harm us and the environment. Having failed to hold onto power after an ironfisted first term, the former President moves to a secluded island and decides to rid it of what he sees as its “anarchic” components. The island, described by its close-knit community as a utopia, the last peaceful resort for humankind, morphs into dystopia when the President, in the hope of bringing order to island life, begins to act more and more like a dictator. The first ones to revolt against him are the seagulls. Originally written in 2008 as a condemnation of the authoritarian Turkish regime, The Last Island has only grown more relevant, foreshadowing the events and aftermath of Istanbul’s bloody Gezi Park/Taksim Square political protests of 2013, as well as the protest movements of our time.

Author : David Hogan
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Dolphins
ISBN : 9780992655211

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A universal tale of escape, love and redemption. A Boston fireman, in an attempt to flee personal and professional tragedy, accepts a job as a bartender on a Greek island. In an isolated cove, he meets Kerryn, an animal rights activist who believes dolphins possess consciousness, intelligence and souls. Kerryn enjoys an extraordinary and personal relationship with a dolphin and is waging a covert war to stop the local fishermen from using illegal nets that not only deplete the sea of fish but also take dolphins' lives. The fireman is pulled into this conflict as his relationship with Kerryn deepens. But Kerryn's passion and convictions lead her to make a fatal decision that changes the island and both their lives forever. The novel's emotional landscape and its themes of environmentalism, animal rights, and the costs of capitalism make The Last Island both timely and timeless.

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473625343

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On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and secret liaisons, where a blind eye is turned to relations between colonials and slaves. The disgraced emperor is subjected to vicious and petty treatment by his captors, but he forges an unexpected ally: a rebellious British girl, Betsy, who lives on the island with her family and becomes his unlikely friend. Based on fact, Napoleon's Last Island is the surprising story of one of history's most enigmatic figures and a British family who dared to associate with him. It is a tale of vengeance, duplicity and loyalty, and of a man whose charisma made him dangerous to the end.

Author : Adam Goodheart
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1400032199

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A gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom. An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become president. Their stories take us from the corridors of the White House to the slums of Manhattan, from the waters of the Chesapeake to the deserts of Nevada, from Boston Common to Alcatraz Island, vividly evoking the Union at its moment of ultimate crisis and decision. Hailed as “exhilarating….Inspiring…Irresistible…” by The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart’s bestseller 1861 is an important addition to the Civil War canon. Includes black-and-white photos and illustrations.

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Chita: A Memory of Last Island is a novella by Lafcadio Hearn. Based on the hurricane of 1856, we follow a group of people struggling for survival amongst a deadly and destructive tropical cyclone.

Author : Julia Blackburn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1448161789

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The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here. It follows him through the eyes of those who lived with him, who guarded him, who managed only to catch a brief glimpse of him, alive or dead. It is also a personal account: a description of Julia Blackburn's own journey to St Helena and at the same time a journey through the private memories and associations evoked by the telling of this poignant and curious story.

Author :
Publisher : Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Filled with adventures and revelations and illustrated with delightful watercolour paintings, The Last Island is a beautifully written testament to the environment, friendship, and the endurance of the human spirit.

Author : Gaëlle Josse
Publisher : World Editions
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642860719

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New York, November 3, 1954: The last immigration officer of Ellis Island looks back at 45 years as gatekeeper to America.

Author : Nannette Toups Schmitt
Publisher : Orage Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Hurricanes
ISBN : 9780974090108

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"This historical novel takes the reader back to this South Louisiana barrier island during the heyday of the steamboats. ""Remember Last Island,"" the ultimate hurricane warning issued even today, shows the reader a life of luxury at this exclusive resort th"

Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1861894163

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On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically decreased around 1500, the Easter Islanders were forced to adapt in order to survive their isolation. Adaptation, Fischer asserts, was a continuous thread in the life of Easter Island: the first European visitors, who viewed the awe-inspiring monolithic busts in 1722, set off hundreds of years of violent warfare, trade, and disease—from the smallpox, wars, and Great Death that decimated the island to the late nineteenth-century Catholic missionaries who tried to "save" it to a despotic Frenchman who declared sole claim of the island and was soon killed by the remaining 111 islanders. The rituals, leaders, and religions of the Easter Islanders evolved with all of these events, and Fischer is just as attentive to the island's cultural developments as he is to its foreign invasions. Bringing his history into the modern era, Fischer examines the colonization and annexation of Easter Island by Chile, including the Rapanui people's push for civil rights in 1964 and 1965, by which they gained full citizenship and freedom of movement on the island. As travel to and interest in the island rapidly expand, Island at the End of the World is an essential history of this mysterious site.