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The Method (Paperback)
Juli Zeh; Translated by Sally-Ann Spencer
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Discovery Miles 2 490
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Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health
is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit medical
data and sleep records to the authorities on a monthly basis, and
regular exercise is mandatory. Mia is young and beautiful, a
successful scientist who is outwardly obedient but with an
intellect that marks her as subversive. Convinced that her brother
has been wrongfully convicted of a terrible crime, Mia comes up
against the full force of a regime determined to control every
aspect of its citizens' lives.
The true story of Canada's greatest sailor, the first to sail
around the world single-handedly.
When Joshua Slocum sailed into port in Massachusetts on June 27,
1898, he was the first man ever to have completed a voyage around
the world without technology, money or companion. It took him three
years to cover the 46,000 miles, and along the way he was chased by
pirates, buffeted by storms, and narrowly escaped death by sharks.
When a goat ate his charts, he managed to navigate through the
Caribbean by memory and intuition.
This is the true-life adventure story of an extraordinary man, who
ran away to sea at sixteen and never looked back. Born on a farm in
Nova Scotia, he apprenticed on voyages to China, Hong Kong and
Indonesia; met and married his wife in Sydney, Australia, and
raised his family aboard sailing vessels in ports around the world.
He survived mutinies, lost cargoes, terrible storms, and
treacheries at sea before resolving on his voyage around the world
in a dilapidated oyster sloop he named The Spray. After settling
down and writing his memoirs, he set sail on November 14, 1909, and
was never seen again.
The North Fork is the roughly sixty-mile-long spit of New York's
Long Island that runs from Riverhead to Orient Point. With the
fairly well protected Long Island Sound on the North and Peconic
Bay on the South, it was a logical place for some of the earliest
English immigrants to settle and build barns. It is still home to
more working farms than any other part of the island. And from the
timber-frame barns of the British farmers of the seventeenth
century to the pole barns of the twentieth, the variety is
stunning.
In a survey sponsored by the Old House Society in Cutchogue, Mary
Ann Spencer spent the last few years making a comprehensive
inventory and photographing more than six hundred barns on the
North Fork. Two hundred of them are still in use, although their
fate is by no means certain. Here in their glory (and sometimes
less than that) are the most interesting barns, which reveal, among
other things, their functional development, their often haphazard
fenestration, their soft patina of age, and their fit in the
landscape. Spencer's complete survey forms a second part of this
book, which provokes feelings of nostalgia and raises our fears for
the future of these wonderful structures. More than 150 color
photographs.
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