On the Wonders of Land and Sea
On the Wonders of Land and Sea

Author: Roberta Micallef

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780674073340

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On the Wonders of Land and Sea is a comparative study of travel writers in the eastern Islamic world from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Situating texts in their socio-historical contexts, the essays study works by male and female Muslim and Parsi/Zoroastrian travelers in the Hijaz, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and Europe.

Between Land and Sea
Between Land and Sea

Author: Christopher L. Pastore

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0674281411

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Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay’s ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation.

The Ocean and Its Wonders
The Ocean and Its Wonders

Author: Ballantyne, R. M.

Publisher: Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Published:

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13:

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The Ocean and Its Wonders by R.M. Ballantyne The cause of the Gulf Stream has long been a subject of conjecture and dispute among philosophers. Some have maintained that the Mississippi river caused it; but this theory is upset by the fact that the stream is salt--salter even than the sea--while the river is fresh. Besides, the volume of water emptied into the Gulf of Mexico by that river is not equal to the THREE THOUSANDTH PART of that which issues from it in the form of the Gulf Stream.