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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Vier Lebensgeschichten, die sich über Jahrhunderte hinweg überkreuzen, in der »Mitte der Zeit« - und der »Mitte der Welt«, auf Tristan da Cunha, dem entlegensten Ort dieser Erde, einer winzigen Insel im Ozean zwischen Brasilien, Südafrika und der Antarktis.Noomi Morholt, 41, ist im Januar 2003 mit einem südafrikanischen Team von Wissenschaftlern unterwegs in die Antarktis, um dort in der anbrechenden Finsternis zu überwintern und Forschungen über das Polarlicht zu betreiben.Christian Reval, 49, im Zweiten Weltkrieg auf Tristan stationierter Funker, der den Vulkan als erster kartographiert hat und 1969 beim Vermessen einer weiter südlich gelegenen Insel unter nie geklärten Umständen stirbt.Edwin Heron Dodgson, 35, Bruder des berühmten Lewis Carroll, ein Priester, der im 19. Jahrhundert die Siedler auf Tristan missionieren soll, ein Verhältnis mit einem Mädchen beginnt und sich dabei tief in Schuld verstrickt.Mark Thomson, Mitte Fünfzig und Briefmarkenhändler, der anhand seiner Sammlung die Geschichte der Insel in einem epischen Panorama rekonstruiert, damit aber auch die Geschichte seiner gescheiterten Ehe, in einer Parabel von Eifersucht und Sehnsucht.Vier Liebesgeschichten in einer Tristan und Isolde in Erinnerung rufenden Wahlverwandtschaft, vier Stimmen vor schroffen seelischen und geographischen Landschaften, ein vieldimensionales Zeitgemälde der letzten fünfhundert Jahre mit einer Insel als Fluchtpunkt, ein Roman unstillbarer Passionen und Obsessionen. 720 pp. Deutsch

Rugged,volcanic and very remote, the three tiny islands of St Helena, Ascension andTristan da Cunha dot the South Atlantic like so many bits of flotsam. AsNapoleon's place of exile following the Battle of Waterloo, St Helena hasgained a notoriety that assures its place in the travel lexicon. This fully revisededition includes information on St Helena'snew airport, which makes it possible for the first time for visitors to explorethe island's natural and historic attractions without a five-day sea voyage toget here. Hiking, fishing, snorkelling and diving are included, plus details ofmarine wildlife, from whale sharks and dolphins to groupers and soldier fish.Expert author Tricia Hayne also provides a section on ‘24hours in Cape Town', offering a brief overview of what to see and do with a daybetween flights.

WITH ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION This is the first survey catalog of Brazilian-born, London-based artist Alexandre da Cunha. The works considered span from 2004-2012. Da Cunha takes everyday objects beach towels, curtain railings, mop heads and turns them into sculptures that, at a cursory glance, ask to be considered formally, within Modernist and Minimalist language. It is only through the nullification of these items utility that da Cunha can poke fun, not only at our knee-jerk art historical and cultural associations, but also at our notions of functionality. With forward essay "Not Pouring Paint on a Banana: The Concrete Poetry of Alexandre da Cunha" By Zoe Gray.

The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, Euclides da Cunha, engineer, journalist, geographer, political theorist, and one of Brazil’s most celebrated writers, led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river, among the world’s most valuable, dangerous, and little-known landscapes. The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guerrilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism he named the Lost Paradise. Da Cunha intended his epic to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and brutal geopolitics, but, as Susanna B. Hecht recounts, he never completed it—his wife’s lover shot him dead upon his return. At once the biography of an extraordinary writer, a masterly chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the Amazon, and a superb translation of the remaining pieces of da Cunha’s project, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual ambition.

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A postal history of the three islands to independence.

Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entangled with knowledge, curiosity, and bafflement as the country itself. . . . On every page there is a heart of idea, speculation, dramatic observation that tells of a creative mission undertaken, the identity of the nation, and also the creation of a pure and eloquent prose style."—Elizabeth Hardwick, Bartleby in Manhattan

Neuware -Als Judith Schalanskys Atlas vor zwölf Jahren erschien, herrschte zwar allgemeine Verzückung über Idee, Konzept und Gestaltung: fünfzig entlegene Inseln - von Tristan da Cunha bis zum Clipperton-Atoll, von der Weihnachts- bis zur Osterinsel - nach Ozeanen geordnet, kunstvoll illustriert und mit je einer absurd-abgründigen Geschichte, die von historischen Begebenheiten und naturwissenschaftlichen Berichten inspiriert ist. Niemand konnte jedoch ahnen, dass der Atlas nicht nur zum internationalen Bestseller und mit diversen Preisen ausgezeichneten Designobjekt werden, sondern ein regelrechtes Zeitalter der »poetischen Atlanten« einläuten und weltweit unzählige Nachahmer finden würde. Und nie war so aktuell wie heute, was dieses Buch beweist: dass die abenteuerlichsten Reisen im Kopf stattfinden, mit dem Finger auf der Landkarte. Höchste Zeit für eine erweiterte Erfolgsausgabe mit neuem Vorwort und fünf neuen Inseln! 159 pp. Deutsch

'The Amazon' features eight essays by Euclides da Cunha, about his trip through the Amazonin in 1905, written to describe the Brazilian hinterlands to the urban citizens.

Hardcover. The role of resident vet in the British Overseas Territories of the Falklands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha and Ascension encompasses the complexities of caring for the world's oldest land animal - a 200-year-old giant tortoise - and MoD mascots at the Falklands airbase; pursuing mystery creatures and invasive microorganisms; relocating herds of reindeer; and rescuing animals in extraordinarily rugged landscapes, from subtropical cloud forests to volcanic cliff faces.Hugely entertaining and affectionate, Jonathan Hollins's tales of island vetting are not only full of ingenuity and astounding fauna - they are also steeped in the unique local cultures, history and peoples of the islands, far removed from the hustle of continental life. Hugely entertaining and affectionate, Jonathan Hollins's tales are full of wonderful creatures and steeped in the unique local history, cultures and peoples of the South Atlantic islands, far removed from the hustle of continental life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Dilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted a special role in defining human habitation and everyday practice. What we take to be natural features of the earth's surface, according to da Cunha, are products of human design and a particular way of seeing that has roots stretching as far back as ancient Greek cartography. Although Alexander the Great never saw the Ganges, he conceived of it as a flowing body of water, with sources, destinations, and banks that marked the separation of land from water. This Alexandrine view of the river, da Cunha argues, has been pursued and adopted across time and around the world. With ever more sophisticated mappings of its form and characteristics, the river's essential features are refined and standardized: its source identified by a point; its course depicted as a stroke; and its propensity to flood imagined as the erasure of the boundary between water and land.While da Cunha's vision of rivers is a global one, he takes an especially close look at the Ganges, as he traces the ways in which it has been pictured, mapped, surveyed, explored, and measured across the millennia. He argues that the articulation of the river Ganges has placed it at odds with Ganga, a "rain terrain" that does not conform to the line of separation, containment, and calibration that are the formalities of a river landscape. By calling rivers into question, da Cunha depicts an ecosystem that is neither land nor water but one of ubiquitous wetness in which rain is held in soil, aquifers, glaciers, snowfields, building materials, agricultural fields, air, and even plants and animals.Printed in full color and featuring more than 150 illustrations, The Invention of Rivers proposes rain, or "the rainscape," as an alternative starting point for imagining, understanding, and designing human habitation.

Dilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted a special role in defining human habitation and everyday practice. What we take to be natural features of the earth's surface, according to da Cunha, are products of human design and a particular way of seeing that has roots stretching as far back as ancient Greek cartography. Although Alexander the Great never saw the Ganges, he conceived of it as a flowing body of water, with sources, destinations, and banks that marked the separation of land from water. This Alexandrine view of the river, da Cunha argues, has been pursued and adopted across time and around the world. With ever more sophisticated mappings of its form and characteristics, the river's essential features are refined and standardized: its source identified by a point; its course depicted as a stroke; and its propensity to flood imagined as the erasure of the boundary between water and land.While da Cunha's vision of rivers is a global one, he takes an especially close look at the Ganges, as he traces the ways in which it has been pictured, mapped, surveyed, explored, and measured across the millennia. He argues that the articulation of the river Ganges has placed it at odds with Ganga, a "rain terrain" that does not conform to the line of separation, containment, and calibration that are the formalities of a river landscape. By calling rivers into question, da Cunha depicts an ecosystem that is neither land nor water but one of ubiquitous wetness in which rain is held in soil, aquifers, glaciers, snowfields, building materials, agricultural fields, air, and even plants and animals.Printed in full color and featuring more than 150 illustrations, The Invention of Rivers proposes rain, or "the rainscape," as an alternative starting point for imagining, understanding, and designing human habitation.