Memories of Earth and Sea

Memories of Earth and Sea
Author: Anton Daughters
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816540004
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The more than two dozen islands that make up southern Chile’s Chiloé Archipelago present a unique case of culture change and rapid industrialization in the twentieth century. Since the arrival of the first European settlers in the late 1500s, Chiloé was given scant attention by colonial and national governments on mainland Chile. Islanders developed a way of life heavily dependent on marine resources, native crops like the potato, and the cooperative labor practice known as the minga. Starting in the 1980s, Chiloé emerged as a key player in the global seafood market as major companies moved into the region to extract wild stocks of fish and to grow salmon and shellfish for export. The region’s economy shifted abruptly from one of subsistence farming and fishing to wage labor in export industries. Local knowledge, traditions, memories, and identities similarly shifted, with younger islanders expressing a more critical view of the rural past than their elders. This book recounts the unique history of this region, emphasizing the generational tensions, disconnects, and continuities of the last half century. Drawing on interviews, field observations, and historical documents, Anton Daughters brings to life one of the most culturally distinct regions of South America.

Memories of the Ocean

Memories of the Ocean
Author: S. R. Osborn
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2002-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0595249795
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At once startling and gently loving, Truth sprays from the author's soul via these poems as though from an immanent spiritual geyser. Nature and science resolve one another in peace, and cosmic mysteries such as reincarnation, life after death, and the path to the Creator find solutions, not as second hand recollections but as actual experiences. Never again need the reader wonder if the Divine is deaf and blind to mortal suffering and the plight of the human condition. Rest assured in this poetry that one of the many hands of God is reaching out to you, beckoning to you to recall your infinite nature as Spirit: "The sea, the metaphor of the Formless Force, the hint dropper of entropy’s death to come, carried with the child upon the land, wielded as the sword of light, witnesses the Observer on the cliff the emergence of intropy, lifelong friend of Life, heralding victory over matter—the anti-attenuation mechanism, the negation of heat loss, and savior of the children of the earth, born of the sea—where all space present in the salt sea drop; all time contained in the moment—intropy, the great winding up of the universe. Born this day upon the crystal white sands, serenaded kindly goodbye, and sent tottering away in tearful happiness by the lapping, waving, watery Father; all as witnessed and recorded, according to plan, by the Observer."

Earth Memories

Earth Memories
Author: Llewelyn Powys
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2019-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789123674
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Earth Memories is a wonderful collection of essays by the English writer Llewelyn Powys. These ‘love letters to the English Countryside’ manifest throughout great depth of nature lore and observation hand in hand with the author’s own personal pagan creed and commentary on places, people and things. This edition, which was first published in 1938, includes an Introduction by the American literary critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Van Wyck Brooks. “Wherever Llewelyn Powys has lived, his mind has always turned towards England, the homeland that haunts him like a passion. Under the stars in the African jungle, poring over Robert Burton, whose rhythms have left long traces in his style—a style that is often archaic and always rare in texture—he dreamed of English gardens. In New York, in the clattering streets, he would see the cuckoo perched singing on the top of Sandsfoot Castle. He can always regain serenity, he says in one of his essays, by thinking of the playground of his childhood, the pear trees of Montacute Vicarage. High as his fever may be, the memory of this enchanted ground quiets his pulse in a moment; and his pictures of England suggest the eye of the convalescent, as if the world had been reborn for him. They are full of an all but miraculous freshness.”—Van Wyck Brooks, Introduction

A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea

A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea
Author: Dina Nayeri
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110160199X
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From the author of Refuge, a magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. But her parents have taught her that “all fate is written in the blood,” and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. And where Saba’s world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister’s experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. Filled with a colorful cast of characters and presented in a bewitching voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern storytelling with modern Western prose, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is a tale about memory and the importance of controlling one’s own fate.

A Sephardi Sea

A Sephardi Sea
Author: Dario Miccoli
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253062942
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A Sephardi Sea tells the story of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean who, between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, migrated from their country of birth for Europe, Israel, and beyond. It is a story that explores their contrasting memories of and feelings for a Sephardi Jewish world in North Africa and Egypt that is lost forever but whose echoes many still hear. Surely, some of these Jewish migrants were already familiar with their new countries of residence because of colonial ties or of Zionism, and often spoke the language. Why, then, was the act of leaving so painful and why, more than fifty years afterward, is its memory still so tangible? Dario Miccoli examines how the memories of a bygone Sephardi Mediterranean world became preserved in three national contexts—Israel, France, and Italy—where the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa and their descendants migrated and nowadays live. A Sephardi Sea explores how practices of memory- and heritage-making—from the writing of novels and memoirs to the opening of museums and memorials, the activities of heritage associations and state-led celebrations—has filled an identity vacuum in the three countries and helps the Jews from North Africa and Egypt to define their Jewishness in Europe and Israel today but also reinforce their connection to a vanished world now remembered with nostalgia, affection, and sadness.

The Mirror of the Sea

The Mirror of the Sea
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1925
Genre: Novelists, English
ISBN:
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Reflections from the Beach

Reflections from the Beach
Author: Books Soul
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2018-09-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781987729993
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What if... you had a record of your memories and vacations by the sea? INSPIRATION COMES IN ALL SIZES, SHAPES AND IDEAS A perfect gift for yourself or the beach lover in your life. Some of our favorite moments are by the sea, why not remember them. Keep a list of every beach vacation. Keep a list of every beach visited. Keep a list of favorite restaraunts at the beach. keep a record of who you went with. Keep a record of weather. Journaling is great for the mind, body & spirit. And, if you are lucky enought to live near a beach or have a beach house, this is a must for guests to write in every time they visit. Full of lined and blank pages. Prompts to ask you questions about the beach. Inspirational beach quotes. Books with Soul believes in sharing gifts that inspire and motivate others to create memories and keep a record of the story of their life. WE believe every life is worth a few written words to pass on or reflect on in the future. You don't have to be an author to tell the story of your life. Just be you. Help someone write their life story. Thanks for taking the time to write your memories of the sea and the beautiful beaches we find all over on Planet Earth. Keep this journal somewhere safe. If you took notes in an ebook, do yourself a favor and buy a physical book. No matter what direction our technology takes us, your memories will be recorded in physical form. START A YEARLY COLLECTION. OR GIFT ONE AS A SPECIAL GIFT

Between Earth and Sea

Between Earth and Sea
Author: Sharon Brubaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-12-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781954175754
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Kelsi Muir is a selkie. She lives between earth and sea, shedding her seal skin to dance along the deserted beaches that line the sea she calls home. In an attempt to escape the mating call of the male seals around her, she spends a fateful night with Ian Dunaway. Unable to free her mind from the handsome two-legger, she leaves her life and family behind only to discover that the human world has its own challenges. Ian, mesmerized with the alluring Kelsi, must help her adapt to her new surroundings as he navigates his family and an unexpected past brought to light with her sudden appearance.

Memories

Memories
Author: Teffi
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 159017951X
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WINNER OF THE 2018 READ RUSSIA PRIZE AND THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BEST BOOK IN TRANSLATION IN 2017 Considered Teffi’s single greatest work, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea is a deeply personal account of the author’s last months in Russia and Ukraine, suffused with her acute awareness of the political currents churning around her, many of which have now resurfaced. In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile. None of this was foreseeable when she arrived in German-occupied Kiev to discover a hotbed of artistic energy and experimentation. When Kiev fell several months later to Ukrainian nationalists, Teffi fled south to Odessa, then on to the port of Novorossiysk, from which she embarked at last for Constantinople. Danger and death threaten throughout Memories, even as the book displays the brilliant style, keen eye, comic gift, and deep feeling that have made Teffi one of the most beloved of twentieth-century Russian writers.