The Queen of Whale Cay - Rilegato

Summerscale, Kate

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ISBN 10: 1857023609 ISBN 13: 9781857023602

Casa editrice: Fourth Estate, 1997

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A fascinating biography of the woman champion motorboat racer of the 1920s who in the ’30s bought and became ‘ruler’ of an island in the British West Indies.

’Joe’ Carstairs was born in London in 1900, the daughter of a Scottish colonel and an American heiress. Educated in Connecticut, she returned to Europe in 1916 and drove ambulances for the Women’s Legion in France. She deserted her husband at the church door (marriage was a prerequisite of her coming into her $4million inheritance) and settled in England where she took up racing, established a boat yard at Cowes and won nearly every trophy going. In the 30s she started travelling widely, finally moving to the West Indies where she bought the island of Whale Cay. There she developed the island into a populated community, building everything from roads and schools to lighthouses and churches. Carstairs then suceeded in establishing hegemony over the 500 islanders, controlling not only their sexual morals but also their diet. In 1944 she built a deepwater harbour for the Royal Navy’s use and, without a word to her population, left the island to build warcraft in Florida, where she settled for 40 years, having run a steamship freightline and set up a chain of airports. Kate Summerscale’s brilliant biography brings out of obscurity a woman whose very boldness took her beyond fame and notoriety.

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Born in 1965 Kate Summerscale was brought up in Japan, England and Chile. She took a double-first at Oxford, an MA in Journalism from Stanford University, California, and for some years wrote and edited obituaries on the Daily Telegraph. Now, she writes features for the Telegraph.

Contenuti:

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PART ONE: APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Philosophical and Methodological Perspectives on the Science of Environmental Change - Stephan Harrison
Direct Observation and Monitoring of Climate and Related Environmental Change - Keith D. Alverson
Reconstructing and Inferring Past Environmental Change - Frank M. Chambers
Dating Environmental Change and Reconstructing Chronologies - Mike J.C. Walker
Modelling Environmental Change and Developing Future Projections - Reto Knutti
Approaches to Understanding Long-Term Human-Environment Interaction - John A. Dearing
Past, Present and Future
PART TWO: EVIDENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND THE GEO-ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE
Environmental Change in the Geological Record - Jane E. Francis, Alan M. Haywood, Daniel Hill, Paul Marwick and Claire Mcdonald
Evidence of Environmental Change from the Coastal and Marine Realm - Ian D. Goodwin and William R. Howard
Evidence of Environmental Change from the Cryosphere - Shawn Marshall
Evidence of Environmental Change from Terrestrial Palaeohydrology - Wim Hoek
Evidence of Environmental Change from Terrestrial and Freshwater Palaeoecology - Alison J. Smith
Evidence of Environmental Change from Aeolian and Hillslope Sediments and Other Terrestrial Sources - Joseph A. Mason
Environmental Change and Archaeological Evidence - Tim Denham
Evidence of Environmental Change from Annually-Resolved Proxies With Particular Reference to Dendroclimatology and the Last Millennium - Eugene R. Wahl and David Frank
Early-Instrumental and Documentary Evidence of Environmental Change - Cary J. Mock
PART THREE: CAUSES, MECHANISMS AND DYNAMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Plate Tectonics, Continental Drift, Vulcanism and Mountain Building - Paul Bishop
Extraterrestrial Causes of Environmental Catastrophes - Elisabetta Pierazzo and H. Jay Melosh
Astronomical Theory and Orbital Forcing - Andr� Berger
Millennial-Scale Climatic Events during the Last Glacial Episode - Siwan M. Davies and Anders Svensson
Solar and Volcanic Forcing of Decadal- to Millennial-Scale Climatic Variations - Raimund Muscheler and Eric Fischer
Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions on Interannual to Decadal Timescales - Mathias Vuille and Ren� D. Garreaud
Responses of Biogeochemical Cycles in the Sea to Environmental Change - Thomas F. Pedersen and Rainer Zahn
Anthropogenic Drivers of Environmental Change - Jemma L. Gornall, andrew J. Wiltshire and Richard A. Betts
PART FOUR: KEY ISSUES OF HUMAN-INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AND THEIR IMPACTS
Monitoring of Global Land-Cover - Sietse O. Los and Jamie Williams
Human Impacts on Terrestrial Biota and Ecosystems - Craig Miller and Iain Gordon
Human Impacts on Lacustrine Ecosystems - Richard W. Battarbee, Helen Bennion, Peter Gell and Neil Rose
Human Impacts on Coastal and Marine Geo-Ecosystems - Ben Daley
Human Impacts on the Atmosphere - Kevin J. Noone
PART FIVE: PATTERNS, PROCESSES AND IMPACTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AT THE REGIONAL SCALE
Environmental Change in the Humid Tropics and Monsoonal Regions - Mark Bush and Will D. Gosling
Environmental Change in the Arid and Semi-Arid Regions - Yang Xiaoping
Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Region - Mira Bar-Matthews
Environmental Change in the Temperate Forested Regions - Matt Mcglone, Jamie Wood and Patrick J. Bartlein
Environmental Change in the Temperate Grasslands and Steppe - Pavel E. Tarasov, John W. Williams, Jed O. Kaplan, Hermann �sterle, Tatiana V. Kuznetsova and Mayke Wagner
Environmental Change in the Arctic and Antarctic - Marianne S.V. Douglas
Environmental Change in Mountain Regions - Martin Beniston
Environmental Change in Coastal Areas and Islands - Patrick Nunn
PART SIX: RESPONSES OF PEOPLE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIETY
Testing the Role of Climate Change in Human Evolution - S.P.E. Blockley, I. Candy and S.M. Blockley
The Origins and Spread of Early Agriculture and Domestication - Deborah Pearsall and Peter W. Stahl
Environmental and Cultural Considerations
Complexity, Causality and Collapse - Georgina Endfield
Social Discontinuity in History and Prehistory
Vulnerability and Resilience of Contemporary Societies to Environmental Change - Donald R. Nelson
Disease, Human and Animal Health, and Environmental Change - Matthew Baylis and Andrew P. Morse
Policy and Management Options for the Mitigation of Environmental Change - Katie Moon and Chris Cocklin
Socio-Economic Adaptation to Environmental Change - Chris J. Barrow
Towards Sustainable Development

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