Imagine a suburb beneath the waves; contemplate the idea of palatial living in a pyramid amongst the stars. Codes Set in Stone embraces both of these somewhat grandiose scenarios in a story set in the not too distant future. Containing the essential ingredients of Relationship, Romance and Rescue, the novel tells of men on a mission to solve mysteries and investigate intrigue and skulduggery - a mission that takes them from Belgium to Venice to Rome to the Himalayas and back again and finally culminates in the discovery of an age-old promise contained in a revelatory book with its conundrum of a final code set in a bright, white, shining stone. It is interesting to note that several of the hitherto fictitious events in the story subsequently became fact after the initial manuscript first saw the light of day.
Come join us down on the farm! There you can meet our hero Graham Grunter, the pig sometimes known as Superham...along with Henry the cockerel and Cockita the hen. Let's not forget Griselda the Giddy goat and the Ghastly Gaggle of Geese...and of course Jack, who goes to Cockita's rescue and pits his strength against Evel Ksniezle, the worst weasel in the world! This book is for boys and girls aged six to sixty...and beyond.
Islands have long been the subject of cultural fascination, but in recent decades, they have exerted an increasingly powerful centrifugal force, sending writers to the outer edges of the British-Irish archipelago in search of inspiration and insight. Drawing on contemporary ecocritical approaches, island studies, and emergent archipelagic perspectives, Ecocriticism and the Island explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction. Through a combination of textual analysis, and, where possible, original interviews and archival research, Pippa Marland offers new insights into the work of Tim Robinson, Brenda Chamberlain, Christine Evans, W.G. Sebald, Stephen Watts, Amy Liptrot, Kathleen Jamie, Adam Nicolson, Robert Macfarlane, and David Gange. In assessing the ways in which these authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness,” this book represents an important intervention into island literary studies. At the same time, it contributes to the development of an archipelagic strand of ecocriticism—one that offers a valuable perspective on human-environmental relationships in an Anthropocene context.
This book develops a new theoretical framework for understanding cosmopolitan communications and identifies the conditions under which global communications are most likely to endanger cultural diversity.
Come join us down on the farm! There you can meet our hero Graham Grunter, the pig sometimes known as Superham...along with Henry the cockerel and Cockita the hen. Let's not forget Griselda the Giddy goat and the Ghastly Gaggle of Geese...and of course Jack, who goes to Cockita's rescue and pits his strength against Evel Ksniezle, the worst weasel in the world! This book is for boys and girls aged six to sixty...and beyond.
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