Gulf Stream Chronicles
Gulf Stream Chronicles

Author: David S. Lee

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2015-08-19

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1469623943

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Off the shore of Hatteras Island, where the inner edge of the Gulf Stream flows northward over the outer continental shelf, the marine life is unlike that of any other area in the Atlantic. Here the powerful ocean river helps foster an extraordinarily rich diversity of life, including Sargassum mats concealing strange creatures and exotic sea beans, whales and sea turtles, sunfish and flying fish, and shearwaters and Bermuda petrels. During his long career as a research scientist, David S. Lee made more than 300 visits to this area off the North Carolina coast, documenting its extraordinary biodiversity. In this collection of twenty linked essays, Lee draws on his personal observations and knowledge of the North Atlantic marine environment to introduce us to the natural wonders of an offshore treasure. Lee guides readers on adventures miles offshore and leagues under the sea, blending personal anecdotes with richly detailed natural history, local culture, and seafaring lore. These journeys provide entertaining and informative connections between the land and the diverse organisms that live in the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina. Lee also reminds us that ocean environments are fragile and vulnerable to threats such as pollution, offshore energy development, and climate change, challenging those of us on land to consider carefully the costs of ignoring sea life that thrives just beyond our view.

Chronicles of Ha Ha Bay
Chronicles of Ha Ha Bay

Author: Edward Bessey

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1456876929

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"A historical collection of true, oft times embellished, forgotten sagas of tremendous hardship, daring exploits, hilarious anecdotes, devoted love, foolhardy capers, of the rugged, resilient people of Ha Ha Bay and area, eking out a subsistence living on the stormy, unforgiving North Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, told with a human face. Canada’s first European settlement, most destructive hurricane, most devastating tsunami, most deadly disease epidemic, even genocide; all occurred in Newfoundland."

The Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream

Author: Stan L. Ulanski

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0807832170

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An illustrated introduction to one of the Earth's great natural wonders explores the science and history of the sea highway known as the Gulf Stream and reveals how the Gulf Stream affects, and is affected by, every living thing that encounters it.

The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea

Author: Jack E. Davis

Publisher: Liveright Publishing

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 0871408678

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Winner • Pulitzer Prize for History Winner • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, NPR, Library Journal, and gCaptain Booklist Editors’ Choice (History) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence In this “cri de coeur about the Gulf’s environmental ruin” (New York Times), “Davis has written a beautiful homage to a neglected sea” (front page, New York Times Book Review). Hailed as a “nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond’s best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester’s Atlantic” (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf is “by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of ‘America’s Sea’ ” (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America’s political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the Gulf’s fruitful ecosystems and exceptional beauty empowered a growing nation. Filled with vivid, untold stories from the sportfish that launched Gulfside vacationing to Hollywood’s role in the country’s first offshore oil wells, this “vast and welltold story shows how we made the Gulf . . . [into] a ‘national sacrifice zone’ ” (Bill McKibben). The first and only study of its kind, The Gulf offers “a unique and illuminating history of the American Southern coast and sea as it should be written” (Edward O. Wilson).

Washed by the Gulf Stream
Washed by the Gulf Stream

Author: Maria McGarrity

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780874130287

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This is an historically comparative postcolonial study asserting the dialogic relation between Irish and Caribbean narrative form. The book focuses on the demise of empire and the role of geography in creating an 'island imaginary' for writers from James Joyce to Jamaica Kincaid.

Wildlife Spectacles
Wildlife Spectacles

Author: Vladimir Dinets

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2016-10-19

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 160469775X

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Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book! People are captivated by wild animals—by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In Wildlife Spectacles zoologist Vladimir Dinets dives deep into this wonder, allowing curious readers to discover just how spectacular wild animals can be. In the rich, fully illustrated pages you’ll discover the migration of gray whales along the Pacific coast, the dancing alligators of the Everglades, the synchronized blinking of fireflies near Tennessee, the swarms of feeding bats over the Mississippi River, the blue-glowing scorpions of the Southwest desert, hundreds of wintering tundra swans in New Jersey, and much more.

The Importance of Not Being Ernest
The Importance of Not Being Ernest

Author: Mark Kurlansky

Publisher: Mango Media Inc.

Published: 2022-05-31

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1642504645

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An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other “...illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner and author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through #1 New Release in Historical Latin America Biographies Discover Hemingway’s biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts. The perfect gift for writers. By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky’s life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway's legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway’s death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway’s and Kurlansky’s lives, resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring writing careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain —both cities important to Hemingway’s adventurous life and prolific writing. Paris, Basque Country, Havana and Idaho. Get to know the extraordinary people he met there —those who had also fallen under the Hemingway spell, including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the same syndrome the author did, two winners of the Key West Hemingway look-alike contest, and the man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting and fishing. In this unique gift for writers, find: A memoir full of entertaining and illuminative stories Little-known historical facts about Hemingway’s life Anecdotes about those who suffer from what the Kurlansky calls “hemitis” Readers of Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in Search of America, or The Boys will love The Importance of Not Being Ernest.