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UNINA9910452737803321 |
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Autore |
Fischer Steven R |
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Titolo |
Islands [[electronic resource] ] : from Atlantis to Zanzibar / / Steven Roger Fischer |
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London, : Reaktion Books, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-78023-053-2 |
1-299-19104-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Islands |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Islands Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Preface; 1. . . . of Stone and Sand; 2. . . . of Ferns and Feathers; 3. . . . of First Footprints; 4. . . . of Tin and Tans; 5. . . . of First Nations; 6. . . . of Moons and Sixpence; 7. . . . of Palettes and Pipes; 8. . . . of theMind; 9. The Last Isle; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When Lost's Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe's novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center of imagined worlds, secluded and sometimes mystical locales filled with strange creatures and savage populations. The cann |
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