Author: Phillip Papas
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: island, revolution, american, staten, loyal
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0814767664
ISBN-13: 9780814767665
Of crucial strategic importance to both the British and the Continental Army, Staten Island was, for a good part of the American Revolution, a bastion of Loyalist support. With its military and political significance, Staten Island provides rich terrain for Phillip Papas’s illuminating case study of the local dimensions of the Revolutionary War.Papas traces Staten Island’s political sympathies not to strong ties with Britain, but instead to local conditions that favored the status quo instead of revolutionary change. With a thriving agricultural economy, stable political structure,
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: island, classics, reader, easy, treasure
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 1402741197
ISBN-13: 9781402741197
The third installment of Stevenson’s thrilling adventure story. With map in hand, Jim and his friends Squire Trelawny and Doctor Livesy had set sail for Treasure Island. After a long journey, they’ve finally arrived—but greedy, nasty pirates have infiltrated their ship and are preparing to steal the loot as soon as it’s found. Can Jim distract the bad guys? A surprising new ally might help…
Authors:Ian Thornton, Tim New,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: island, ecological, reviews, communities, development, colonization, origin
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2007-03-19
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 0521854849
ISBN-13: 9780521854849
New or recently sterilized islands (for example through volcanic activity), provide ecologists with natural experiments in which to study colonization, development and establishment of new biological communities. Studies carried out on islands like this have provided answers to fundamental questions as to what general principles are involved in the ecology of communities and what processes underlie and maintain the basic structure of ecosystems. These studies are vital for conservation biology, especially when evolutionary processes need to be maintained in systems in order to maintain biodive
Author: Stan B. Cohen
Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc.
Keywords: island, wake, capture, issue, enemy, doubt
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 1983-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0933126395
ISBN-13: 9780933126398
Author: Sergio Ghione
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Keywords: island, remote, world, journey, turtle
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-12-08
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0312310951
ISBN-13: 9780312310950
Ascension Island is a wilderness of volcanic rock, land crabs, and stray donkeys in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It erupted into existence about 600 years ago and was discovered by the Portugese in 1501. However, it was only when Napoleon was exiled to nearby St. Helena that the island gained strategic importance and was snatched up by the British. It went on to become a crucial "node" in both world wars and the Cold War. The 1960s saw the building of a NASA base which was crucial to the Apollo missions. The thousand or so people who live on this island now do so because they have been br
Author: Reeves Shields
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Keywords: island, adventure, coastal
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 2010-03-17
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 1609112105
ISBN-13: 9781609112103
During World War II, a Nazi submarine landed two men on a beautiful island off the coast of Georgia. These two soldiers were ordered to bury money that was intended to be used by Nazi saboteurs to incapacitate a large and busy shipyard. The saboteurs’ plot was eventually discovered, and the Nazi soldiers were returned to Germany. In the 1950s, the same island attracts an interesting cast of characters. An olive-skinned beauty named Veronica and a blonde young man named Steven decide to live together in an old house that has been long abandoned, yet is still habitable. An escaped conv
Author: Harriet Deacon
Publisher: David Philip, Publishers
Keywords: island, history, series, literature, robben, mayibuye
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1995-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0864862997
ISBN-13: 9780864862990
Robben Island is a low-lying outcrop of rock and sand guarding the entrance to South Africa’s Table Bay. Although it is just a few kilometres long and a barely swimmable distance from Cape Town, it may well be the most significant historical site in South Africa today. Paradoxically it symbolises both the repressiveness of the apartheid state and the strength of those who opposed it. While interpretations of the island’s history have focused mainly on its role as political prison and on the well-known prisoners held there, such as Nelson Mandela, the island has been put to many and
