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A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There is a 1949 non-fiction book by …
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
— A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (Page 96)
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There is a 1949 non-fiction book by American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist …
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, …
Still great
fantastic.
"Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state....To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled." ARISTOTLE, 322 B.C.
— Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows
I don't think I've ever read a book about the history of trying to answer a question. Christina Thompson looks in to all the different ways people throughout time have tried to understand the origins of the Polynesian people who live in the Pacific. The book covers legends, ethnographic research, archeology, linguistic research, carbon dating, geneology, and other methods. My favorite chapters were about people in the 1960s-70s trying to recreate old sailing vessels and navigating using a blend of ancient and modern navigational methods.
I don't think I've ever read a book about the history of trying to answer a question. Christina Thompson looks in to all the different ways people throughout time have tried to understand the origins of the Polynesian people who live in the Pacific. The book covers legends, ethnographic research, archeology, linguistic research, carbon dating, geneology, and other methods. My favorite chapters were about people in the 1960s-70s trying to recreate old sailing vessels and navigating using a blend of ancient and modern navigational methods.
Excellent book.
There's a chapter dedicated to the efforts in the 1960s-70s to recreate old style canoes and use traditional navigation practices to get from Hawaii to Tahiti, as a way to demonstrate the possibility of people thousands of years ago crossing a massive ocean without GPS, maps, sextants, and other modern instruments.
I'm reminded of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, in which Sisko encounters the design for an old space craft and wants to prove the plausibiltiy that ancient Bajorans could have travelled far across space by using the recreated ship to travel to Cardassia. I wonder if the writers were inspired by the story of the Polynesiai Voyaging Society.
There's a chapter dedicated to the efforts in the 1960s-70s to recreate old style canoes and use traditional navigation practices to get from Hawaii to Tahiti, as a way to demonstrate the possibility of people thousands of years ago crossing a massive ocean without GPS, maps, sextants, and other modern instruments.
I'm reminded of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, in which Sisko encounters the design for an old space craft and wants to prove the plausibiltiy that ancient Bajorans could have travelled far across space by using the recreated ship to travel to Cardassia. I wonder if the writers were inspired by the story of the Polynesiai Voyaging Society.
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
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“Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory” is a short story set in the world of Martha Well’s bestselling and Hugo award-winning …
“Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory” is a short story set in the world of Martha Well’s bestselling and Hugo award-winning …
Martha Wells returns to her Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The …
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems …
