To a Distant Island
To a Distant Island

Author: James McConkey

Publisher: Paul Dry Books

Published: 2000-11-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0966491351

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In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, James McConkey traveled to Italy and researched Chekhov's letters, memoirs, and an account of his journey to Sakhalin island. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.

To a Distant Island
To a Distant Island

Author: James McConkey

Publisher: Plume

Published: 1986-09-22

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780525482567

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In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, traveled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, while on sabbatical in Italy after a troubled academic year, McConkey discovers in the letters and memories of Chekhov's journey a kindred and healing spirit. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.

Distant Islands
Distant Islands

Author: Daniel H. Inouye

Publisher: Nikkei in the Americas

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1607327929

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"The turn of the century New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using primary sources Inouye tells the stories of the professional elites, small business owners, working-class, laborers, and students from these communities"--Provided by publisher.

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Author: Judith Schalansky

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-11-12

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0143126679

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A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.

Toward the Distant Islands
Toward the Distant Islands

Author: Hayden Carruth

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1556592361

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Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.