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Islands: From Atlantis to Zanzibar

von Fischer, Steven Roger   (Autor)

Our planet hosts over a million islands. From Britain to Japan, Mauritius to Manhattan, these small living laboratories are geological crucibles, biological cradles and cultural crŠches. Ranging from ancient continents to accretions of an ocean sandbank, they can lie in the sea, in a river, or in a lake. Some are entire countries: Madagascar, Jamaica, Iceland. Other countries are multiple large islands: Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand. Some islands sustain a single crofters hut; others host Earths largest metropolises: New York, Singapore, Hong Kong. Hundreds have been notorious penal colonies; a refreshing number are now wildlife refuges. Whether colossal or compact, Islands: From Atlantis to Zanzibar is the first global introduction to these lands surrounded by liquid. Historian, linguist, philologist, island expert and long-time island-dweller Steven Roger Fischer reveals how since time began islands have been one of the primary birthplaces for plants, animals and proto-humans. He shows how these same islets and eyots of stone and sand - whether in ocean, lake or river - fostered our species, Homo sapiens, who then exploited these remarkable habitats as stepping-stones to global dominion.Seeding our imagination from Atlantis to Tahiti, from Treasure Island to Jurassic Park, islands have cradled and enriched, thrilled and lured, terrified and inspired. Encompassing many aspects of geology, biology and culture, from island economics, warfare and politics to literature, art and psychology, Islands chronicles how these isolated mini-worlds are, ultimately, a measure of humankind itself.

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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 cannibals, raptors, and smoke monsters that exist on the islands of popular culture aside, the more than one million islands and islets on the planet are indeed small, geological, biological, and cultural laboratories. From Britain to Japan, from the Galapagos to Manhattan, this book roams the planet to provide the first global introduction to these waterlocked landforms. Longtime island dweller Steven Roger Fischer shows that, since time began, islands have been one of the primary birthplaces for plants, animals, and proto-humans. These eyots of stone and sand--whether in ocean, lake, or river--fostered the human race, and Fischer recounts how humanity then exploited these remarkable habitats as stepping stones to global dominion. He explores island economics, warfare, and politics, and he examines the role they have played in literature, art and psychology. At the same time, he sparks our imagination with visions of islands--from Atlantis to Tahiti, Treasure Island to Hawaii. Ultimately, he reveals, these isolated mini-worlds are a measure of humankind itself. An engaging account of the islets that have enriched, lured, terrified, and inspired us, Islands shines new light on these cradles of earth--and human--history. 

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Steven Roger Fischer studierte Sprachwissenschaft in Neuseeland und an der Universität Heidelberg. Einige Jahre lang arbeitete er als freier Redakteur in Meersburg. Heute ist er Leiter des Instituts für Polynesische Sprachen und Literaturen an der Universität Auckland, Neuseeland. Er entzifferte die rongorongo-Schrift der Osterinseln und den Diskos von Phaistos. 

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Medium: Buch
Format: Gebunden
Seiten: 336
Sprache: Englisch
Erschienen: Dezember 2012
Maße: 223 x 146 mm
Gewicht: 550 g
ISBN-10: 178023032X
ISBN-13: 9781780230320

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